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aside. When an actor whispers to another character (or to the audience) and the audience knows that none of the other characters on stage at the time can hear what was just said. metaphor. a comparison of two things without using the words “ like ” or “as .”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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aside
When an actor whispers to another character (or to the audience) and the audience knows that none of the other characters on stage at the time can hear what was just said.
metaphor
When Romeo saw Juliet standing on her balcony he said, “Juliet is the sunJuliet is the sun.”
allusion
an indirect reference to another literary work or to a famous person, place or event.
Romeo claimed Rosaline wouldn’t let herself fall in love when he told Benvolio,
"She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow.”
simile
a comparison of two things using “like” or “as.”
Tears flowed down his cheeks like a waterfall.
She laughed like a hyena!
Mark was as cute as a kitten and as tall as a tree.
alliteration
The repetition of an initial consonant sound.
The slick, slimy snake slithered slowly across the sizzling sidewalk.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
Sally sells seashells by the seashore.
iambic pentameter
A line of poetry that has 10 syllables. Each lightly-stressed syllable is followed by a heavily-stressed syllable
I hope that I can go to school today.
dramatic irony
When the readers or audience know something that a character does NOT know which makes that character’s words or actions funny in a twisted sort of way.
When Capulet tells Paris that Capulet is sure Juliet will be happy to marry Paris, his comments are funny to the audience because we know Juliet has already married Romeo, so she will NOT be happy to marry Paris.
blank verse
Poetry that does not rhyme, but uses iambic pentameter as its meter.
I wish I were a frog on lily pads.
Then I could learn about the warming sun.
And bask in golden sun on leaves all day.
foreshadowing
When an author includes hints about what will happen later in the story.
characters
1. What they say..
people who are in a piece of literature.we find out what they are like in the following ways:
2. What they DO..(their actions)…
3. What OTHER characters say about them…
4. What the narrator tells us about them…
Ahh…now breathe deeply once and continue learning these words.
comic relief
After the serious love scene between Romeo and
Juliet, at the Capulets’ party, Mercutio and Benvolio are
a bit drunk and they clown around as they look for
Romeo.
a humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious play to break the tension
dramatic conventions
In Shakespeare's time, most plays were written in poetry, even
though people don't really talk that way.
certain practices or methods that are accepted by a reader or an audience even though they are not realistic.
If an actor entered the stage from the trap door in the platform,
everyone in assumed the character was coming from HELL.
hyperbole
Juliet tells Romeo, "A thousand times good night.”
a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated.
foils
Mercutio is a foil for Romeo because of Mercutio's
constant joking and low opinion of love.
characters who are similar in many ways to each other, but which also are very different.
Romeo is a “lover” not a “fighter.”
Mercutio is a “fighter” not a “lover.
pun
As Mercutio is dying he says,
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
a joke which comes from a play on words
personification
When Lord Capulet said to Paris,
"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she” he implied
that the earth was human-like by saying the earth had a
mouth.
figure of speech which gives human qualities to an object, an animal, or an idea
Ahh…now breathe deeply once and continue learning these words.
tragedy
We like Romeo, but because he does not slow down to
carefully think through his desires and plans, his actions lead
to many deaths and his own suicide.
a dramatic work which presents the downfall of a good character brought about by himself.
paradox
Romeo says that love is "A choking gall, and a preserving
sweet” during a conversation with Benvolio. (Something
technically be sweet and bitter at the same time.)
a statement that seems to contradict itself, but is true.
chorus
In Romeo and Juliet, a single actor stepped on stage,
before the main action began, and summarized what would
happen during the show by speaking the Prologue.
in Greek tragedy, the chorus was a group of actors who commented on the actions of the characters
tragic hero
a person of noble status who has one or more character flaws that lead to his downfall
soliloquy
a speech in which a sole (single) character says his or her thoughts aloud, usually while he or she is alone on stage.
At the beginning of the balcony scene,
Juliet believes she is alone, so she talks to herself about her love for Romeo.