Name: ________________________
Drama Unit
Literary Terms
Notes
Hour: ____
Date: ____________
Directions: Use pages 852-854, 1008, 1028, and the index of your literature textbook (page 1224) to complete your notes.
prose
_____________________ speech that _____________________ pay special
attention to rhyme or rhythm
_____________________ that is mostly written in _____________________
_____________________ verse
_____________________ _____________________
_____________________
_____________________ sets of _____________________ -
_____________________
_____________________ syllables (ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM ta-TUM)
_____________________ a text in _____________________
paraphrase
_____________________ _____________________

Understand the _____________________ _____________________
of the text

Look up _____________________ words in the
_____________________.

Try to _____________________ the _____________________ or
_____________________ of the text.

Account for all the _____________________ of the
_____________________ _____________________.

_____________________
Maintain the same point of view. If the original uses the words “I”
and “you,” than the paraphrase should also use the words “I” and
“you.”
presentation of _____________________ and _____________________
actions that end _____________________
_____________________ and _____________________ character in a
tragic _____________________
tragedy who has a _____________________ _____________________ that
leads to his or her _____________________
_____________________ that lead the otherwise _____________________
tragic _____________________
hero to make choices that _____________________ him or her to a
_____________________ _____________________
a_____________________ _____________________ made by one
_____________________
character to _____________________ or _____________________ other
characters on _____________________.
a _____________________ made by a character who is
Name: ________________________
Drama Unit
Literary Terms
Notes
Hour: ____
Date: ____________
Directions: Use pages 852-854, 1008, 1028, and the index of your literature textbook (page 1224) to complete your notes.
_____________________
_____________________ on stage
aside
_____________________ that is _____________________ supposed to be
_____________________ by other _____________________ on stage


Asides will be dictated in the stage directions.
Asides may be heard by some characters on stage, but not all of
them.
when the _____________________ knows something that a
_____________________ irony
_____________________ (or actor) does _____________________ know
when someone_____________________ one thing but
_____________________ irony
_____________________ the _____________________
when one _____________________ is _____________________ to
_____________________ irony
happen, but the _____________________ happens
foreshadow
use of _____________________ to _____________________ and events
that will occur_____________________ in the plot
pun
Word play on _____________________ _____________________ of a
word, or on two _____________________ that _____________________
_____________________ but have different meanings
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Mercutio (after being mortally stabbed) 3.1.94-95
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall
find me a grave man.
Pun on the word “grave.” Grave means somber or serious, and it also
refers to the grave (tomb) that Mercutio knows he will be in (Mercutio
knows he will die from this wound.)
comparison of two seemingly _____________________ things using the
_____________________
words _____________________ or _____________________

x is like y

Lord Capulet
4.5.28-29
Death lies on her like an untimely
frost
comparison of two seemingly _____________________
things that directly
_____________________
_____________________ one to theDeath
otherislikeRomeo
an untimely frost1.5.96

_____________________
x=y
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
type of metaphor that attributes _____________________ characteristics to
 Juliet = sun
nonhuman _____________________
 Chorus 2.C.1
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,
 Desire = a thing that can lay down