Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

• LITERARY
• TERMS

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Apostrophe

• figure of speech in which an absent person, a
  personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is
  addressed as though present

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MOTIVATION

• The reason behind the characters actions

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PERSONIFICATION

• Type of metaphor in which a nonhuman quality is
  talked about as if it were human

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DRAMATIC IRONY

• Occurs when the audience knows something the
  character does not

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Inversion

• Reversal of the normal order of language

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ASIDE

• Words spoken to the audience or another
  character, but are not heard by all characters on
  stage

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SOLILOQUY

• A long speech in which a character who is on
  stage alone expresses thought aloud

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PUN

• Play on words or two words that sound alike, but
  have different meanings