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This is a term for a humorous play on two or more meanings of the same word or on two different words with the same sound. For example, what do you call a pig that does karate? A pork chop.
What is a Pun?
This person writes plays.
What is a playwright?
Who is the tragic hero of Romeo and Juliet?
What is Romeo?
This opening informs the audience of past and future events in a play.
What is Prologue?
This struggle takes place between the main character and some outside force.
What is external conflict?
This is a long speech by one character to another character on stage. There is no back-and-forth discussion among the characters.
What is a Monologue?
These directions tell a character where and how to move around on stage or say their lines. The actor/actress does not read these from their script.
What are Stage directions?
This type of play depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end (usually death).
What is a Shakespearean tragedy?
This single character provides information about the play and usually says the prologue (introduction).
What is Chorus?
This type of irony occurs when the audience/reader knows something important that a character in a story/play does not know.
What is dramatic irony?
Both of these types of dramatic elements are heard by the AUDIENCE ONLY.
What is an aside and soiliquy?
Typically a funny comment that is given to break up a serious moment or tension.
What is comic relief?
This is a character weakness that brings about the tragic hero’s unhappy ending/downfall. An example of this would be rash behavior or poor judgment.
What is a Tragic flaw?
These "pair of star-cross'd lovers" take their life.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
This is a combination of two words that contradict each other.
What is oxymoron?
This comment, delivered by a character on stage, is intended to be heard only by the audience—not by all of the characters onstage.
What is an Aside?
This verse uses unrhymed (does not rhyme) iambic pentameter and is usually used by noble and upper-class characters.
What is Blank verse?
This noble character has a lot to lose and has a personal weakness that leads to his or her downfall. The personal weakness could be a character flaw, fate, or both.
What is a Tragic hero?
According to the prologue of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, these enemies are involved in an old feud.
What is Montagues and Capulets?
This statement may seem contradictory but can be true.
What is paradox?
This speech is delivered by a character who is alone onstage. These are the private thoughts of a character.
What is Soliloquy?
This type of character is used to contrast another character. In a tragedy, a foil may draw attention to the hero’s tragic flaw. For example, in Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio would be the foil character for Romeo because Mercutio does not believe in love but Romeo does.
What is a Foil character?
These elements contribute the most to the downfall of a tragic hero.
What are Character flaws, fate, or both?
According to the prologue (the introduction of the play), there is only one thing that will end the feud.
What is The death of Romeo and Juliet?
This structure uses the same pattern of words and grammar to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance.
What is Parallelism?