Romeo And Juliet Figurative Language
Figurative Language Review (50 pts.)
Directions: Copy and paste the following terms in a separate document. Find two examples of each of the following terms located in Romeo & Juliet. Copy the examples from the text and include an explanation how those examples relate to the term.
Aside: Short lines spoken by a character to the audience that other characters are not supposed to hear.
Chorus: A narrator role in a play.
Comic Relief: A funny scene that follows a very serious scene.
Couplet: Two-line stanza that rhymes.
Dialect: A way of speaking that represents a specific group of people or geographic region.
Dramatic Irony: When the reader/audience knows something that the characters do not.
Foil: Two characters or scenes that
are opposite each other; the effect is to show the qualities of one or both of the characters or scenes.
Foreshadowing: Technique that gives the reader clues about events to come in a story.
Oxymoron: Two conflicting terms combined to define one object.
Pun: Play on words; using words that sound alike that have different meanings to create humor.
Soliloquy: A character standing alone on stage and speaking his thoughts aloud.
Stanza: Lines of poetry arranged in one unit.
Stereotype: A commonly held, often erroneous, belief of an individual or a group, not based on fact.
Theme: The author’s life lesson contained in the story.
Verbal Irony: Saying the opposite of what is meant.
Define these two terms as it relates to literature and explain why Romeo & Juliet would be an example of each of these terms.
Drama
Tragedy
Directions: Copy and paste the following terms in a separate document. Find two examples of each of the following terms located in Romeo & Juliet. Copy the examples from the text and include an explanation how those examples relate to the term.
Aside: Short lines spoken by a character to the audience that other characters are not supposed to hear.
Chorus: A narrator role in a play.
Comic Relief: A funny scene that follows a very serious scene.
Couplet: Two-line stanza that rhymes.
Dialect: A way of speaking that represents a specific group of people or geographic region.
Dramatic Irony: When the reader/audience knows something that the characters do not.
Foil: Two characters or scenes that
are opposite each other; the effect is to show the qualities of one or both of the characters or scenes.
Foreshadowing: Technique that gives the reader clues about events to come in a story.
Oxymoron: Two conflicting terms combined to define one object.
Pun: Play on words; using words that sound alike that have different meanings to create humor.
Soliloquy: A character standing alone on stage and speaking his thoughts aloud.
Stanza: Lines of poetry arranged in one unit.
Stereotype: A commonly held, often erroneous, belief of an individual or a group, not based on fact.
Theme: The author’s life lesson contained in the story.
Verbal Irony: Saying the opposite of what is meant.
Define these two terms as it relates to literature and explain why Romeo & Juliet would be an example of each of these terms.
Drama
Tragedy