a long speech made by one actor in a play monologue

A REVIEW BY ANY OTHER NAME

a long speech made by one actor in a play

Monologue

Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story

foreshadowing

A time in a play when a character talks to himself or reveals his thoughts without addressing a listener

soliloquy

figures of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common

Metaphor

Comparing two nouns that are that are unlike with like or as

simile

Usually humorous use of a word in such a way to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word or similar word

puns

When the intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express

Verbal irony

Words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not heard by other characters on stage during a play

aside

the use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words to create pictures, or images in the reader’s mind

imagery

when words and actions of the characters have a different meaning for the reader than they do for the characters because the reader has a greater knowledge than the characters themselves

Dramatic irony

A statement that is apparently self contradictory or absurd, but really contains a possible truth

Paradox

A character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story

Foil

A time in a play when a character talks to himself or reveals his thoughts without addressing a listener

soliloquy

Giving human traits to nonhuman objects

personification

A phrase in which two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect

Oxymoron

WHAT IS THIS QUOTE AN EXAMPLE OF?

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear

Simile


Marry, that ‘marry’ is the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your disposition to be married?

Pun


Sampson: Is the law on our side if I say ay?

Aside


But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Metaphor


I fear, too early: for my mind misgives some consequences yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night’s revels and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death.

Foreshadowing


'Tybalt is dead, and Romeo--banishèd!' That 'banishèd,' that one word 'banishèd,' Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death Was woe enough, if it had ended there; Or, if sour woe delights in fellowship And needly will be ranked with other griefs, Why followèd not, when she said 'Tybalt's dead,' Thy father, or thy mother, nay, or both, Which modern lamentation might have moved?

Monologue


O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.

Soliloquy

WHAT IS THIS AN EXAMPLE OF?

Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather’d raven! Wolfish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seems’t.

Oxymoron

O son, the night before thy wedding day Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies, flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; my daughter he hath wedded. I will die and leave him all.

Personification

“Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much.”

– Juliet

Verbal Irony

“Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?”

Romeo

Aside

“’Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name belonging to a man.

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”

-Juliet

Monologue

“…my mind misgives / Some consequences yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels and expire the term / Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”

-Romeo

Foreshadowing

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?

Personification

Patience perforce with wilful choler meetingMakes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.I will withdraw: but this intrusion shallNow seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.

Tybalt

Foreshadowing

…ask forme to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

Mercutio

Pun

O God, I have an ill-divining soul!Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

Juliet

Foreshadowing

Indeed, I never shall be satisfiedWith Romeo, till I behold him--dead--Is my poor heart for a kinsman vex'd.

Juliet

Verbal Irony

I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam,I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear,It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,Rather than Paris. These are news indeed!

Juliet

Dramatic Irony

Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen; Examine every married lineament, And see how one another lends content And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him, only lacks a cover

-Lady Capulet

Imagery

Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks.I would the fool were married to her grave!

Lady Capulet

Foreshadowing

PARIS: Do not deny to him that you love me.JULIET: I will confess to you that I love him.

Verbal Irony

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