Romeo and Juliet Drama Term

What word means: is a drama, often in verse, in which the main character, or hero, deals with a serious or somber theme. Most of the time it ends in death. The hero typically is born into power and that character is destined to be destroyed or suffer some form of downfall, usually because the character has a flaw and makes serious error in judgment. It is typical that fate is an overpowering force that leads to the hero's destruction.

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What word means: an amusing scene, incident, or speech that gives temporary relief from tension in a play. It provides contrast in a play, helping to break up serious matters with something that is funny.

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What word means: a brief reference, within a work, to something outside of the work. It's typically made as a casual reference to a famous historical or literary figure or event and can be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion, most often the bible.

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What word means: a character that makes another character stand out by sharply contrasting one another. These characters highlight the other characters traits or attitude.

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What word means: devices that theater audiences accept as realistic even though they do not necessarily reflect the way real-life people behave and quickly signifying the nature of the action of a character.

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What word means: a speech a character gives when he or she is alone on stage that lets the audience know what the character is thinking. In short, the audience gets to hear the character;s thoughts.

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What word means: a character's dialogue on stage, either to the audience or to another character, that others on stage are not to hear. This allows the audience or specific character to know the character's private thoughts.

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What word means: a form of poetry that uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, which are lines that have five unstressed syllables, each followed by a stressed syllable. It is used to produce a formal rhythmical pattern that creates musical effects, capturing the attention of the readers and listeners. Many times, though, the pattern gets broken in work.

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What word means: hints or clues that prepare the audience for an event or action that is to happen later in the story.

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What word means: the time and place of action of a story

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