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Sonnet Terms
Poetic Terms
Dramatic Terms
Literary Terms
Key Quotes R&J
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The number of lines in a sonnet
What is 14
100
two lines of rhyming poetry
What is couplet
100
Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience or to one other character and are not "heard" by the other characters on stage during a play is a/an
What is an aside
100
opposing terms or ideas placed side by side "jumbo shrimp"
What is oxymoron
100
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. Analyze these lines (try to add context when possible)
What is answers vary
200
The number of quatrains are in a sonnet
What is 3
200
A humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest more meaning at the same time
What is pun
200
A conversation on stage is also known as
What is dialogue
200
true or false: A theme tells us how we should live our lives
What is false
200
Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! what device is romeo using here? why is it important?
What is oxymoron; answers vary
300
True or False - All Shakespearean sonnets are in Iambic Pentameter
What is True
300
The purpose of an octave
What is to set up the problem
300
A long dramatic monologue
What is soliloquy
300
This stage of the plot often reveals how different characters respond to the climax.
What is falling action
300
These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite; Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Analyze these lines. What devices are being used here? (try to add context when possible)
What is simile/rhyme/foreshadowing Friar Lawrence just before the wedding Answers vary
400
What is Shakespeare's rhyme scheme
What is abab cdcd efef gg
400
The turning point in a poem
What is volta
400
two characters placed side by side in order to exaggerate/highlight their differences Please name two in the play
What is Foil Answers vary
400
____________________ is when the author allows the character's behaviors to suggest their personality
What is indirect characterization
400
I fear, too early; for my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels and expire the term. What device is Romeo using here and why is it important?
What is foreshadowing; answers vary
500
True or False - Meter determines the number of stressed syllables per line
What is true
500
Backward and down he went, letting the winecup fall from his shocked hand. Like pipes his nostrils jetted crimson runnels, a river of mortal red Name 3 poetic devices in this quote
What is simile, personification, synecdoche (kenning)
500
Romeo: The game was ne’er so fair, and I am done Mercutio: Tut! Dun ’s the mouse, the constable’s own word! If thou art Dun, we’ll draw thee from the mire. (I.iv.39-41) What dramatic device is being used here? Wny?
What is pun -- its is a play on done (finished) and dun(tan)
500
True or False: First Person is usually omniscient
What is False
500
more light and light, more dark and dark our woes What device is being used here? Why is this quote important? (provide context if possible)
What is motif; morning after wedding before Romeo leaves for Mantua; answers vary