Literary terms-some related to R & J

Events in the play that lead to a turning point in the action.

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  Rising Action

• Exposition

 Struggle or clash between opposing characters or forces. 

• Personification

• Conflict

This is when we get the background information about the setting, characters, time, etc. 

• exposition

• chorus

Serious play in which the characters meet with an unhappy or disastrous ending.

• Foreshadowing

• Tragedy

An inanimate object is described with human features.

• Personification

• Hyperbole

. A preface or introduction to a play which we read ourselves.

• Prologue

• chorus

 A reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature, history, art, or music. 

• preface

• allusion

 Humorous, clever use of a word/phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time.

• Pun

• hyperbole

The point of greatest emotion intensity.

• Climax

• Resolution

This is when we get all the information from the __________about the story prior to reading.

• epilogue

• Chorus