Romeo and Juliet terms

Question 1

Allusion

Answer 1

Reference to something the audience will be familiar with

Question 2

Catharsis

Answer 2

Cleansing of emotions through literature

Question 3

Causality

Answer 3

Direct links between actions and reactions (cause and effect)

Question 4

Couplet

Answer 4

2 successive lines of rhyming iambic pentameter

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

Anxiety experienced when the audience knowsore than the characters

Question 6

Foil

Answer 6

Characters that illuminate another character

Question 7

Hyperbole

Answer 7

Exaggeration for effect

Question 8

Innuendo

Answer 8

Comments that have derogatory implications

Question 9

Imagery

Answer 9

Using words to capture sensory experiences

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

Direct comparison between unlike things

Question 11

Paradox

Answer 11

Contradictory statement that proves true

Question 12

Personification

Answer 12

Giving Han qualities to non-human things

Question 13

Prologue

Answer 13

Formal introduction to a work of literature

Question 14

Prose

Answer 14

Writing that isn’t poetry

Question 15

Poetry

Answer 15

Features rhythym, appeals to emotion

Question 16

Pun

Answer 16

Play on words with multiple meaning or similar sounds

Question 17

Meter

Answer 17

General pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 18

Iambic pentameter

Answer 18

Meter that figures 5 feet each line

Question 19

Simile

Answer 19

Comparison between to unlike things with like or as

Question 20

Soliloquy

Answer 20

Speech where character voices thought aloud

Question 21

Sonnet

Answer 21

14line poem usually about love