A long, uninterrupted speech (in a narrative or drama) that is spoken in the presence of other characters.
What is a monologue?
100
One of the main divisions of a play or opera
What is Act?
100
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What is a sonnet?
100
"The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night."
What is personification?
200
"These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss, consume."
Who is Friar?
200
The audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not.
What is dramatic irony?
200
A brief remark heard by the audience but not by the other characters in the play.
What is an aside?
200
Line of poetry that contains five iambs.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
What is oxymoron?
300
"Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days."
Who is Nurse?
300
Usually, the humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time.
What is a pun?
300
A story acted out, usually on a stage, by actors and actresses who take the parts of specific characters.
What is a play?
300
I'll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.
What is a couplet?
300
gentle Paris
What is an epithet?
400
"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, not so wide as a church door;"
Who is Mercutio?
400
A speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, along on stage, expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
What is a soliloquy?
400
A conversation between characters.
What is dialogue?
400
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
400
Lack of moderation can lead to tragedy.
What is theme?
500
"For never was a story more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Who is Prince?
500
A division with no change of locale or abrupt shift of time.
What is a scene?
500
A playwright's descriptive or interpretive comments that provide readers (and actors) with information about the dialogue, setting, and action of a play.
What are stage directions?
500
Musical quality in language produced by repetition.