Romeo and Juliet Review

A speech given by a single character in a story. Other characters may be present on stage.

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

A dramatic discourse delivered by a character who is alone and not addressing other characters.

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

A conversation between two or more characters.

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

A part of an actor's lines supposedly not heard by others on the stage and intended only for the audience.

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

The central idea, topic, or point of a story: the lesson or moral the author wants to get across.

• Mood

• Pun

• Theme

• Aside

“O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art

As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,

As is a wingèd messenger of heaven.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Pun

• Irony

“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Pun

• Foreshadowing

“Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;

She’s the hopeful lady of my earth.”

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Mood

“there is no world without Verona walls, / But purgatory, torture, hell itself”

• foreshadowing

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Mercutio says (after being stabbed): "ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man."

• simile

• pun

• metaphor

• personification