Notes

Vocab
Inauspicious- no success, unpromising, unlucky (not of good prophet)
Sonorous- a deep, rich, and full in sound, language or voice; impressive, booming, resonant (of sound)
Ominous- giving the impression that something bad is going to happen, threatening, doomy (bad omen)
Capricious- given to sudden changes in mood or behavior, inconsistent, changeable, unpredictable (playful style)
Vociferous- outspoken, clamorous, vocal (voice fiercely)
Literary Terms-
Allusion- reference to another story (greek, roman, biblical stories; references to Venus, Cupid; anything that is pronoun is likely allusion)
Antimetabole- phrase or sentence is repeated in reverse order (if love be rough with you, be rough with love (Mercutio); fair is foul and foul is fair)
Antithesis- features contrasting ideas or words in a parallel structure, extreme juxtaposition (it was the best of times, it was the worst of times)
Apostrophe- talking to inanimate object as it's a person (Romeo talking to the sun, Juliet talking to the knife, Romeo talking to tomb)
Aside- quick 1 or 2 lines that one character hears but no one else (Lord Capulet scolding Tybalt, Juliet realizing Romeo is a montague, Romeo realizing Juliet is a capulet)
Comic Relief- character who gives break to audience from the intense moments (Mercutio, Nurse)
Conflct- man vs man (Tybalt vs Mercutio, Capulet vs Montague, Parise/Tybalt vs Romeo) man vs self (Juliet's inner conflict of loving Romeo) Man vs society (Romeo and Juliet vs their families names)
Double Entendre- double meaning to a sentence or word (Mercutio's sexual double entendres in Act 2 scene 4, "you've hit the target sir")
Foil Character- opposite personalities to tighten one another's (Benvolio and Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo, Nurse and Juliet)
Hyperbole- exaggeration (brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, and I'll no longer be a Capulet, "Ay a thousand times Peter")
Situational irony- think something happens but then another thing happens (Friar lawrence sends letter to Romeo and instead of getting the message he goes to kill himself in Juliet's tomb)
Dramatic Irony- audience knows what character does not (Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, but audience knows Juliet is sleeping; Mercutio and Bevolio still think Romeo likes Rosaline yet the audience knows he has moved on)
Verbal Irony- play on words (While Mercutio dies he says, "ask of me tommorow and you shall find me a grave man)
Juxtaposition- opposite ideas close to each other, usually separated by conjunction (day and night, good and bad)
Metaphor- comparing two unlike things without using like or as (Serpent heart hid with a flowering face, hangs upon the cheek of an Ethiopia's ear)
Motif- reoccurring theme (death, stars, plants, love, dreams)
Oxymoron- opposite words right next to each other (beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, brawling love, heavy lightness, pretty ugly)
Personification- giving an inanimate object human qualities (love, so gentle in his view should be so tyrannous and rough in proof, grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night")
Pun- play on words (you having dancing soles, I have a soul made of lead; my pump is flowered)
Simile- comparison of two unlike things using like or as (like a rich jewel in an ethics's ear; and in their triumph die like fire and powder)
Tone- author's attitude (tragic, light hearted, intense, dramatic)
Theme- overarching idea (love, youth vs age, fate)
Monologue- speech given by character to other characters (prince's speech, Friar lawrence's speech to grieving family)
Soliloquy- speech given by one character saying what they are thinking (romeo expressing thoughts about juliet, juliets fears about the bottle)
Verse- rhymes, sonnets, couplets
blank verse- unrhymed iambic pentameter
prose- short story, normal writing
sonnet- 14 lines and rhymes at end
Shakespeare tragedies- ends in catastrophe, tragic hero (Romeo and Juliet), dies cause of flaws (dies cause of love), has antagonist (feud, Tybalt) protagonists are in high society