english: romeo and juliet lit terms test Flashcards
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or pop culture
Allusion
Person in a story, poem, or play
Character
The process of revealing the personality of a character in a story
Characterization
Comic scene or event that breaks up a serious play or narrative
Comic relief
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Couplet
Story that is written to be acted for an audience
Drama
Word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood on a literal level
Figure of speech
Character who is used as a contrast to another character
Foil
The use of clues to hint at event that will occur later in a plot
Foreshadowing
A line of poetry that contains five iambs
Iambic Pentameter
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.
Irony
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.
Metaphor
Series of related events that make up a story or drama
Plot
Main character in fiction or drama
Protagonist
Time and place of a story or play
Setting
An unusually long speech in which a character who is onstage alone expresses his or her thoughts aloud.
Soliloquy
Fourteen-line lyric poem that is usually written in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes
Sonnet
Group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
Stanza
Person, place, thing, or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well
Symbol
Central idea of a work or literature
Theme
Play, novel, or other narrative that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
Tragedy
