Romeo and Juliet Terms
A 14-line poem with rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
What is a sonnet?
Comparison using “like” or “as”
What is a simile?
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
Main character of a story
What is a protagonist?
Main claim of an essay
What is a central claim/thesis?
A character speaks thoughts aloud that others cannot hear
What is a soliloquy?
Repetition at beginnings of lines
What is anaphora?
Words that imitate sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
Conflict within oneself
What is internal conflict?
Opposing argument
What is a counterclaim?
Unrhymed iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
A pause in a line caused by punctuation
What is a caesura?
Imagery involving smell
What is olfactory imagery?
Narrator using “I”
What is first-person point of view?
Appeal to emotion
What is pathos?
Introductory section before the play begins
What is a prologue?
A metaphor extended for several lines
What is an extended metaphor?
Similar vowel sounds near one another
What is assonance?
Reader knows more than the characters
What is dramatic irony?
Title, Author, Genre
What is TAG?
A speech heard by the audience but not all characters
What is an aside?
Word choice and vocabulary
What is diction?
Imagery involving movement or tension
What is kinesthetic imagery?
A character who changes throughout a story
What is a dynamic character?
The comeback to the counterclaim, which supports the central claim
What is the rebuttal?