Romeo and Juliet Outline
Romeo and Juliet Outline
I. Terms to Know with Examples
A. Aside
1. Def: A short speech delivered by an actor in a play (is directed to the audience and is presumed to be inaudible to the other actors)
2. Ex: Romeo: “(aside) She speaks.O, speak again, bright angel! … When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.”
B. Blank Verse
1. Def: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
2. Ex: Prince: “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, … Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”
C. Comic Relief
1. Def: A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by introducing a humorous character or situation
2. Ex: Any scene with Nurse or Mercutio.
D. Couplet
1. Def: A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
2. Ex: Lady Montague: “O, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day? - Right glad I am he was not at this fray.”
E. Dramatic Foil
1. Def: A character who highlights or brings out the personality traits of another character in a play because of contrasting characteristics
2. Ex: Scene with easy-going, jovial Mercutio and the serious Romeo.
F. Dramatic Irony
1. Def: A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
2. Ex: Knowing that Romeo and Juliet will kill themselves.
G. End-Stopped Line
1. Def: A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or closing parenthesis—or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period
2. Ex: Benvolio: “Here were the servants of your adversary, - And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.”
H. Extended Metaphor
1. Def: A writer speaks or writes of a subject as though it were something else
2. Ex: Romeo: "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a
I. Terms to Know with Examples
A. Aside
1. Def: A short speech delivered by an actor in a play (is directed to the audience and is presumed to be inaudible to the other actors)
2. Ex: Romeo: “(aside) She speaks.O, speak again, bright angel! … When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.”
B. Blank Verse
1. Def: Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter lines
2. Ex: Prince: “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, … Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”
C. Comic Relief
1. Def: A technique that is used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by introducing a humorous character or situation
2. Ex: Any scene with Nurse or Mercutio.
D. Couplet
1. Def: A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the same length and meter
2. Ex: Lady Montague: “O, where is Romeo? Saw you him to-day? - Right glad I am he was not at this fray.”
E. Dramatic Foil
1. Def: A character who highlights or brings out the personality traits of another character in a play because of contrasting characteristics
2. Ex: Scene with easy-going, jovial Mercutio and the serious Romeo.
F. Dramatic Irony
1. Def: A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
2. Ex: Knowing that Romeo and Juliet will kill themselves.
G. End-Stopped Line
1. Def: A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or closing parenthesis—or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period
2. Ex: Benvolio: “Here were the servants of your adversary, - And yours, close fighting ere I did approach.”
H. Extended Metaphor
1. Def: A writer speaks or writes of a subject as though it were something else
2. Ex: Romeo: "Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a