Literary Terms
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R + J Act I plus more
R + J ACTS II and III
R + J ACTS IV and V
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A long story usually told as a poem. It includes a larger than life hero
What is EPIC
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A Japanese poem with three lines
What is a haiku
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The author of Romeo and Juliet
Who is William Shakespeare?
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ROMEO and Juliet decided to do this about their love
What is GET MARRIED?
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The person that Juliet goes to for help after her Dad announces she is to marry Paris
Who is Friar Laurence?
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The repetition of consonant sounds for example "Peter, picked a pepper
What is alliteration?
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"Crash, Boom, Bang" is an example of this literary device
What is ONOMATOPOEIA?
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The prologue (before the play) informs the audience this about Romeo and Juliet
What is die?
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THE AUDIENCE KNOWS something that the characters in the play do not is knows this type of Irony
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
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Friar Laurence's plan was to give Juliet a potion that would do this to her
What is put her in coma?
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A comparison between two unlike things in which one thing becomes or is another thing
What is a METAPHOR
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A comparison between two unlike things using like or as
What is a SIMILE?
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The reason why the fight in Scene 1 started
What is an argument over insults between servants of the Capulets and Montagues
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When Juliet says "What's a Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name belonging to a man, What's in a name? .... She means this
What is Romeo's name should not matter
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Romeo did this when he heard Juliet was dead
What is buy poison?
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The atmosphere or feeling that a story has
What is MOOD?
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The main idea of a work of literature can be considered this
What is the THEME?
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Juliet first meets Romeo at this location
What is The Capulet Party
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When Mercutio says "Tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?" he wants Tybalt to do this
What is Fight?
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The CLIMAX of the play occurs when
What is Juliet kills herself?
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"My shirt is so dirty that it got up and ran across the room" is an example of this
What is personification?
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A writer's or speaker's choice of words. It is sometimes considered slang
What is DICTION?
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This character can be described as hot headed and short tempered
Who is TYBALT?
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The TURNING POINT in Romeo and Juliet is when ....
What is Romeo kills Tybalt?
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Hatred leads to violence, destruction, and waste is the overall message of the play which is also defined as this
What is the THEME?