Irony
when the audience knows something the characters don’t
What is dramatic irony?
This is the typical length of a sonnet
Before the blizzard, I noticed the food on the shelves at the local grocery store was _______________, and there was no milk or bread available anywhere.
What is sparse?
What is avert?
This is how the families find out about Romeo and Juliet's deaths?
What is... everyone rushes to the scene an Friar Lawrence tells the truth?
when the outcome of a situation is the opposite of what’s expected
What is situational irony?
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The auditorium was filled with an eager crowd waiting to hear the __________________ anthropologist speak about the work he had been doing for decades in Egypt.
What is illustrious?
refuse
What is spurn?
What is five days?
when a character’s dialogue has the opposite meaning (often sarcasm)
What is verbal irony?
This is the typical subject of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is love?
Smart employers know better than to ____________ their employees, because good workers, hard to find in the first place, will leave at any sign of abuse.
What is maltreat?
forthright
What is candid?
This character is never seen on stage but is a catalyst for several characters' initial choices.
Who is Rosaline?
When Mercutio has been stabbed by Tybalt and says, "a scratch, a scratch," this is an example of _____________.
What is verbal irony?
The last two lines of a sonnet are called this.
What is a (rhyming) couplet?
As a ________________ to the main course, the caterer planned an appetizer of goat cheese and roasted red pepper on toast.
What is prelude?
unite
What is reconcile?
At the end of the play, this many characters have died
What is six?
Act Five, Scene Three heightens the play’s _________________ when Romeo kisses Juliet goodbye for the last time.
What is dramatic irony?
The meter used by Shakespeare contains 5 ______s consisting of two syllables (one stressed, one unstressed), which is why it is called ________________.
To me, the cheese smelled as __________________ as rotten garbage, but some people develop a keen taste for it.
What is rancid?
Investigate
What is probe?
Throughout the play, Romeo is criticized for acting this way, especially by his friends and Friar Lawrence.
What is effeminate (like a woman).