Romeo and Juliet Terms 1

A literary work in which the flaws of the protagonist cause him tremendous suffering, eventually resulting in a catastrophe, or disastrous conclusion.

• tragedy

• act

• scene

• drama

In a drama, a subdivision of an act that does not contain a change of time or place.

• drama

• act

• scene

• comedy

Literature written to be acted.

• tragedy

• comedy

• plays

• drama

A major division in the action of a play.

• act

• scene

• drama

• comedy

A type of poetic foot that contains one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable (also known as an iambic foot).

• iambic pentameter

• iamb

• meter

• poetic foot

Drama that focuses on lighthearted matters such as courtship and love, and that may also be satirical.

• tragedy

• drama

• comedy

• romance

Meter with five iambs in each line of a poem.

• iamb

• iambic pentameter

• meter

• poetic foot

The regular patter of stressed and unstressed syllables.

• iamb

• iambic pentameter

• meter

• poetic foot

The specific combination of two or three stressed and/or unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poem's lines.

• iamb

• iambic pentameter

• meter

• poetic foot