TEST VERSION - Romeo and Juliet Terminology

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What is an 'allusion'?

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A reference to a person, place, or thing in the text.

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What literary technique did Shakespeare use to create comic relief?

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Pun.

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What is NOT a characteristic of an aside?

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A scene that takes place offstage and is not shown to the audience.

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What is foreshadowing?

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A literary device that gives an indication or hint of what is to come later in the story.

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What is personification?

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The attribution of human characteristics to something that is not human.

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What is a pun?

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A form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

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What is a metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is a simile?

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A figure of speech that compares two different things using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is dramatic irony?

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A situation in which the audience knows more about the events of a story than the characters do.

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter.