english: romeo and juliet lit terms test

Question 0

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

Question 1

Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

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Allusion

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Person in a story, poem, or play

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Character

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The process of revealing the personality of a character in a story

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Characterization

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Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative

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Comic relief

Question 5

Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Couplet

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Story that is written to be acted for an audience

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Drama

Question 7

Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level

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Figure of speech

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Character who is used as a contrast to another character

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Foil

Question 9

The use of clues to hint at event that will occur later in a plot

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Foreshadowing

Question 10

A line of poetry that contains five iambs

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Iambic Pentameter

Question 11

Contrast or discrepancy between expectation and reality—between what is said and what is really meant, between what is expected to happen and what really does happen, or between what appears to be true and what is really true.

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Irony

Question 12

Figure of speech that makes a comparison between to unlike things, in which one thing becomes another thing without the use of the word like, as, than, or resembles.

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Metaphor

Question 13

Series of related events that make up a story or drama

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Plot

Question 14

Main character in fiction or drama

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Protagonist

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Time and place of a story or play

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Setting

Question 16

An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.

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Soliloquy

Question 17

Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes

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Sonnet

Question 18

Group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit

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Stanza

Question 19

Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well

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Symbol

Question 20

Central idea of a work or literature

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Theme

Question 21

Play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end

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Tragedy