| allusion | reference to a different story, ex. in R and J the phrase “love is blind” refers to cupid who is blind and makes people fall in love |
| anastrophe | verb before subject. ex. “saw you him today?” |
| anachronism | blooper, out of time or place ex. lord cap. orders servant to quench the fire. |
| animal imagery | wonton’s bird, crow, swan etc. |
| antithesis | two opposite words that don’t touch. ex. “too early seen unknown, and known too late” |
| apostrophe | when someone speaks to an inanimate object or un present person.ex. “oh happy dagger!” |
| archaic language | use of older words ex. wherefore, thou |
| aside | a short speech delivered by an actor directed to the audience. the actor often places his hand beside his mouth to keep other characters from hearing the speach. |
| astrology references | ex. ” star crossed lovers” |
| blank verse | blank or bored of rhyme |
| catastrophe | following the falling action. r+j die |
| catharsis | “cleansing” of the story |
| chiasmus | literary device for repetition. mentions a pair of words and reverses them in the next line ex. strike moved, moved strike |
| chorus | narrator |
| coincidence | ex. friar john, out of all the places he could travel gets sick and quarantined |
| comic relief | the Nurse provides comic relief with her frequently inappropriate remarks and speeches |
| compression of time | in R+J events took less than a week. when presented with a shortness of time it cost the families and ended in tragety . |
| couplet | conclusion or application in a sonnet . gg |
| date of R+J | 1595 |
| dramatic irony | the audience knows, characters don’t. ex. crowd knows juliet is alive when romeo doesn’t. |
| R+J Is written in ….. | early modern english |
| epithet | Short descriptive phrase after someone’s name. Ex. When mercutio calls tybalt ” the good king of cats” (tybalts name is a tag name for a cat) |
| exposition | or inciting incident, followed by rising action. conflict between the two families is presented |
| extended metaphor | Comparison that extends/ goes on for more than one line |
| flat character | not fully know by audience |
| round character | well know by audience. main characters |
| foils | characters that are opposite ex. nurse vs. lady capulet, benvolio and tybalt. |
| falling action | following the climax or crisis, and ending in catastrophe. romeo is banished, lovers must separate, juliet finds herself alone. |
| forshadowing | ex. romeo ……… that something bad will happen at the capulet’s party |
| fraytag’s tragic pyramid | exposition, rising action,turning point climax/ crisis, falling action, catastrophe/resolution/climax/ denoument/ catharsis |
| globe theatre | where the plays took place, main center of entertainment, shakespear partly owned it, royalty and peasants could attend it’s plays. |
| grave mark | backwards accent mark that elongates a word by one syllable ex. à |
| heroic couplet | two lines, end rhyme, iambic contamiter |
| hyperbole | exaggeration ex. ” a thousand times goodnight” |
| iamb | unstressed, stressed |
| iambic pentameter | higher class speak in this |
| imagery bird/flower/ star | bird- swan and crow, juliet wants to call romeo with a whistle like a falconer, ” i wish you were my wonton’s bird” flower-” our love is like a flower bud. |
| imagery light/ dark | swans are white and crows are black |
| inciting incident | or exposition, presents conflict between the montagues and the capulets. |
| local color ( for shakespears time not only when the play took place) | particular to area or region. archery- “i aimed so near” ” a right good markman” |
| malapropism | wrong word wrong time. nurse often uses this. “putting her foot in her mouth” |
| metaphor | comparison, not using like or as ex. romeo compares juliet to the moon or ” juliet is the sun”, romeo compares poison to cordial. |
| monologue | long uninterrupted speech in the presence of others |
| oxymoron | two words side by side that contradict. Ex. Heavy lightness, loving hate, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-walking sleep |
| paradox | Puzzle, have to look at it twice, confusing at first ” I sell the poison, (poison -money) though has sold me none” |
| personification | ex. tomb eats tybalt and juliet, friar lawrence,” the grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” |
| prose | line of poetry |
| puns | take a word and manipulate it’s meaning or use words that sound the same. |
| quatrain | in a sonnet the first 3 stanzas consist of 4 lines each called……. |
| queen mab speech | Famous monologue by mercutio with great imagery |
| repartee | bickering or quick exchange of words between two characters |
| rising action | following the exposition, R +J meet at capulet’s party, declare their love and are married. not yet struck by tragedy. |
| scansion | making stressed and unstressed syllables |
| setting | 14th century verona itali |
| shakespear is known for… | his language and writing. not his plots |
| soliloquy | long uninterrupted speech with no one to hear it |
| split line iambic pentameter | two characters sharing the same 10 syllablesjuliet: “take all myself”romeo: “i take thee at thy word” |
| tag name (same name symbolism) | Benvolio= goodTybalt – from a character from a previous story – in that story the cat is named tybalt |
| turning point climax | tybalt kills mercutio and romeo kills tybalt |
| vocation | job |
| avocation | hobby |
| “wedding song” | juliet waiting for her groom to return |
| shakespear was born in ….. and died in ……. on ….. | 1564, 1616, on april 23rd |
| shakespear lived in the …….era | elizabethan era |
| shakespear wrote ……. plays and …… sonnets | 37,154 |
| shakespear was…. | a play writer and an actor |
| shakespear lived in | stratford-upon- avon |
| the prolouge for act 1+2 are in the form of… | a sonnet |
| litterary term? “arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon.” | personification |
| drama, two early forms + difference | miracle- christian stories and miraclesmortality plays- vices + virtues, good people |
| literary term(s) – “good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow” who said it ? | alliteration, oxymoron- juliet to romeo |
| why was friar john unable to deliver juliets plan to romeo | he was quarantined |
| literary term(s)? ” the sun for sorrow will not show his head” | personification, alliteration |
| what roman god is alluded ? ” alas that love, whose view is muffled still, should without eyes see pathways to his will” | cupid |
| literary term(s)? “and we mean well in going to this masque, but’tis no wit to go” | forshadowing |
| shakespear often ends his scenes with a | couplet |
Romeo and Juliet mrs. Mel.
December 8, 2019