Romeo and Juliet Vocab

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  1. 3. happens when a character's dialogue is spoken but not heard by the other actors on the stage
  2. 4. is a poem with no rhyme
  3. 7. the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
  4. 8. is a pair of lines of metre in poetry
  5. 10. at the beginning of the play, his character is made to resemble a typical Petrarchan lover which had become a cliché by the time Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet (around 1595). Petrarch was a fourteenth-century Italian poet whose sonnets were all the rage in Renaissance England.
  6. 11. one sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved. The beloved may not be aware of the admirer's deep and strong romantic affection or consciously reject it
  7. 15. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song
  8. 17. a character who contrasts with another character (usually the protagonist) in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character.
  9. 19. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
  10. 20. group of actors who described and commented upon the main action of a play with song, dance, and recitation.
  11. 21. a form of drama based on human suffering that invokes an accompanying catharsis or pleasure in audiences.
  12. 22. warning or indication of a future event
  13. 24. a serious disagreement or argument typically a protracted one
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  1. 1. refers to a certain kind of line of poetry, and has to do with the number of syllables in the line and the emphasis placed on those syllables
  2. 2. defined as when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same.
  3. 5. a form of wordplay that suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
  4. 6. a figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect, thus highlighting the similarities between the two.
  5. 9. the subject of a talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic.
  6. 12. full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
  7. 13. a fanciful expression in writing or speech. An elaborate metaphor.
  8. 14. a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
  9. 16. a poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention. The term sonnet is derived from the Italian word sonetto
  10. 18. a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
  11. 23. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers