Literary Terms for Romeo and Juliet

prose

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  five meters or metrical feet of verse

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  concentrated language also called verse

• a regular rhythm or pattern in language

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  ordinary, everyday language

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

pentameter

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  five meters or metrical feet of verse

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  concentrated language also called verse

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  unrhymed iambic pentameter

• words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

meter

• a regular rhythm or pattern in language

• concentrated language also called verse

• a unit of speech that contains one unstressed (not emphasized) syllable followed by a stressed (emphasized) syllable

• ordinary, everyday langauge

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

blank verse

• words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

• a unit of speech that contains one unstressed (not emphasized) syllable followed by a stressed (emphasized) syllable

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  concentrated language also called verse

• unrhymed iambic pentameter

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

iamb

• unrhymed iambic pentameter

• a unit of speech that contains one unstressed (not emphasized) syllable followed by a stressed (emphasized) syllable

• a regular rhythm or pattern in language

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  words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

unrhymed verse

• words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

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  concentrated language also called verse

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  ordinary, everyday language

• words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

poetry

• concentrated language also called verse

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  ordinary, everyday language

• a unit of speech that contains one unstressed (not emphasized) syllable followed by a stressed (emphasized) syllable

• words at the end of a line of poetry do not rhyme

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.4