| stanza | a group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poem; comparable to a paragraph |
| Romeo | Male Main Character |
| Juliet | Female Main Character |
| characterization | the methods used by an author to create and develop characters’ personalities (physical description, character’s own words/actions, reactions of others, author tells us directly) |
| conflict | in literature, a struggle between opposing forces (man/man, man/society, man/nature; man/self, man/fate) |
| couplet | a rhymed pair of lines |
| motivation | the reasons behind the character’s actions |
| oxymoron | a special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradictory terms |
| prologue | an introductory scene in a drama; a feature of all Greek dramas |
| quatrain | a four line stanza, or group of lines, in poetry. (most common stanza in English poetry) |
| rhyme scheme | a pattern of end rhymes in a poem. Noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet to each line; lines that rhyme are given the same letter. |
| sonnet | a lyric poem of 14 lines commonly written in iambic pentameter. Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnets consist of three quatrains and a final couplet |
QUIZLET LIVE ROMEO AND JULIET
November 11, 2019