Romeo & Juliet Terms

• Aside


  a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience or another character but not all the characters on stage
• Blank Verse


  unrhymed iambic pentameter
• Iambic Pentameter


  line of verse with five metrical feet, each of which consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable (ex. prologue of Romeo and Juliet)
• Monologue


  a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience; other characters can hear the monologue
• Prologue


  a separate introductory section of a literary or musical work
• Soliloquy


  a speech in a play in which a character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than other characters; other characters CANNOT hear the soliloquy
• Sonnet


  a 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter and following a strict pattern of rhyme: ABABCDCDEFEFGG