R&J Test

Shakespere was born on......

He married...and they had... children

He died at the age of...on...

The... influenced the way Shakespere wrote his plays.

Romeo and Juliet was based on...

In Romeo and Juliet, the two fall in love at first sight. Shakespere presents them as....

Themes:

dramatic work that presents the downfall of a dignigied character or characters who are involved in historically or socially signigicant events

a weakness in a character that brings about his or her downfall

a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has a fatal flaw that, combined with fate and external forces, brings on a tragedy

a chorus of one character who identifies the problem, the characters, the setting, the play's ending, and sets the mood (like the exposition)

a dramatic device in which a characer speaks his or her thoughts aloud, in words meant to be heard by the audience but not the other characters

a humorous scene, incident, or speech that is included in a serious drama to provide a change from emotional intensity; because it breaks the tension, it allows an audience to prepare emotionally for the events to come

an unusually long speech in which a character alone on stage expresses his or her thoughts aloud

a ridiculous and often stereotyped character involved in a far fetched or silly situation

a character who hilights traits in another character, usually by contrast

lines that have some puncuation at the end to indicate a pause or stop in th reading

lines that have no puncutation at the end; the meaning is completed by subsequent lines

two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme; used by Shakespere to puncuate a character's exit, signal the end of a scene, or hilight an important idea

poetry with syballe metric feet (one accented syllable followed by one accented syllable) ex. to be or not to be

five metrical feet per line

ten syllables; every other one is stressed

unrhymed iambic pentameter

fourteen line poem

a fourteen line poem; each line is in iambic pentemeter; three quatrains followed by a couplet

poem or stanza of four lines; most common stanza length in English poetry

using a play on the multiple meanings of a word or words that sound alike but have differnet meanings

a refrence to something historical, scientific, religious, mythica, or literary outside of the work itself

words which have disappeared from common use

a figure of speech consisting of a form of antithesis in which conradictory terms are brought together for emphasis

a seemingly self-contradictory statement

addressin a person or objec who can not answer as if it/he/she could

a figure of speech that makes a comparison between things that uses like or as

language that appeals to the senses

a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison without the use of like or as