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One character who is either alone onstage or thinks that he or she is alone onstage and it speaking his or her thoughts aloud, not to the audience, but to him or herself so that the audience can hear what he or she is thinking
Soliloquy
When the audience knows more than some of the characters on stage
Dramatic Irony
A character that speaks under his or her breath so that only the audience can hear it, often directly to the audience, or it can be two characters talking quietly while other characters are onstage. In Shakespeare’s plays the passage is typ
Aside
An amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic parts of a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension
Comic Relief
A reference in a piece of literature to something else that the audience would be familiar with, such as: another piece of literature, a place, or an event
Allusion
A character whose characteristics directly contrast with another’s and is used to enhance or emphasize a character’s personality/trait
Foil
Give an example of a foil, a character whose characteristics directly contrast with another's and is used to enhance or emphasize a character's personality/trait.
Juliet vs. Rosaline
Give an example of an aside, where A character that speaks under his or her breath so that only the audience can hear it.
In Act I, Scene I. when Sampson quietly asks Gregory a question after “biting his thumb
Give an example of dramatic irony, when the audience knows more than some of the characters on stage.
We know that Romeo & Juliet are enemies when they meet
Give an example of a soliloquy?
Juliet thinks she is alone on her balcony,, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Give an example of an allusion from Act I?
Act I when the Nurse mentions that Juliet’s birthday is Lammas-tide, which the audience then would know as a reference to Lammas Day, August 1, a festival of wh
Give an example of comic relief.
Act III, scene i, when Mercutio is dying but still joking, telling puns
