1. Who is Our Modern day Bard?
Bard = poet
The poet usually referred to as THE BARD is Shakespeare?
Do we have a modern day bard?
How do you think we could find out?

2. Literary Devices and Drama Terms
Romeo and Juliet
Literary Devices and Drama Terms

3. Literary devices
Techniques that authors use to create emotions in their readers; paint a picture in their readers’ minds
Example: simile or metaphor

4. Oxymoron
A figure of speech in which two opposite words are joined together to form a paradox (contradiction).
Example
Bittersweet
Jumbo shrimp

5. Pun
A playful use of a word that mean different things but sound the same.
Example
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man
Grave = serious or solemn
Grave = a burial site

6. Allusion An indirect reference to an event, person, or place Example
Wu Tang Clan’s lyric “Socrates’, philosophies, and hypotheses can’t define” is an allusion because they reference a famous philosopher (person): Socrates

7. Alliteration
Repetition of the same initial letter, a consonant, in a group of words.
Example
Deep, dark ditch
She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.

8. Personification
Giving an animal or non-living object human qualities or characteristics. Example: The flower danced in the wind.

9. What is this? O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?

10. What is this? Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit
And, in strong proof of chastity well armed,
From Loves’ weak childish bow she lives unharmed.

11. Assonance
two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds
Examples
We light fire on the mountain.
The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.

12. IDIOM an expression whose meaning is not predictable Example:
kick the bucket 
elephant in the room
don’t cry over spilled milk

13. slant RHYME/Consonance
rhyme in which the consonants of stressed syllables are identical
Examples:
Hold and bald
Shape and keep
Moon and run

14. HOMEWORK: look up the definition and ONE example for each literary term, Due At the end of Class – Test Tomorrow!
LITERARY TERMS
Oxymoron
Pun
Allusion
Alliteration
Personification
Iambic Pentameter
Dramatic Irony
Simile
Metaphor
DRAMA TERMS
Foil
Soliloquy
Monologue
Comedy
Dialogue
Aside
Comic Relief
Tragedy
Tragic Hero

15. Drama terms Terms or phrases related directly to drama or plays.
Example: dialogue or stage directions

16. An indirect reference to a _______, _______, or __________ is an ______________.
When the first letter in every _________ is the same it is called _______________.
If two ____________ words are combined to form a contradiction it is called an ______________.
A _________ is the use of _______ word that has a double meaning.

17. HOMEWORK: look up the definition for each literary term, DUE TOMORROW
Foil
Soliloquy
Aside

18. A short ___________ spoken to the _________ or _______ _______ which is not heard by other characters on stage is an ________________.
A character who provides a ____________to another character is a _________.
A ____________ is a ___________ in which a character speaks his or her __________ aloud. The character is ____________ on stage.

19. Aside
A short line of dialogue spoken to the audience or another character which is not heard by other characters on stage.
Example
In High School Musical 2, Mrs. Saponara’s character, Ms. Fulton, was trying to convince herself that everything would be okay and reminds herself that she loves her job, because in that moment she actually hates her job. So, she turn away from the other characters on stage and says to herself, “I love my job, I love my job, I love my job.” That is an aside because the other characters do not hear her.

20. Foil A character who provides a contrast to another character. Example
In West Side Story, Riff is a foil to Tony.

21. soliloquy
In drama, a soliloquy is a speech in which a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud. The character is alone on the stage and the speech is so the audience can hear the thoughts of the character.
Example: In West Side Story, Tony sings “Something’s Coming” in which he tells how he has a feeling something great is about to happen. Those are his thoughts song aloud for the audience to hear. There are no characters around to hear.

22. HOMEWORK: look up the definition for each literary term, DUE TOMORROW
Dramatic Irony
Comic Relief
Tragedy

23. __________ __________ is when the __________ knows more about the plot than a _________ does.
A _________ is a play that ends __________ because the _____ of the story _______.
Funny________, _______, or ______ in ________ in order to relieve the audience of ___________ intensity is _______ __________.

24. Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows more about the plot than a character does.
Example
In West Side Story, when Anita tells the Jets that Maria was killed by Chino, the audience knows that is not true. The Jets and Tony do not know that it is a lie.

25. Comic Relief
Funny scenes, events, or speeches put in dramas in order to relieve the audience of emotional intensity.
Example
In the television show Friends, the dating characters of Ross and Rachel break up. During their break up scene when there is a lot of tension, anxiety, and sadness, one of them says something funny to help the audience laugh and relax a little bit.

26. Tragedy
A tragedy is a play that ends unhappily because the hero of the story dies. There are three elements to a tragedy, and Shakespeare’s tragedies had all three all the time. There is a tragic hero with a tragic flaw There is a series of unfortunate events The hero always dies

27. monologue

28. comedy

29. Your one-page TASK FOR TODAY
Design a one-page poster!!
Your poster should include
The literary device or drama term you’ve been given.
This is your title
A definition of the device.
An example – make up your own or research one.
A picture (get creative)
Oxymoron
A figure of speech where two opposite words are joined together to form a paradox (contradiction).
Jumbo = BIG
Shrimp = LITTLE
Example:
Jumbo Shrimp

30. Oxymoron Example: Jumbo Shrimp
A figure of speech where two opposite words are joined together to form a paradox (contradiction).
Jumbo = BIG
Shrimp = LITTLE
Example:
Jumbo Shrimp

31. Jeopardy

32. Parting is such is sweet sorrow

33. Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies

34. As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven

35. How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night

36. The bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath

37. But all so soon as the all-cheering sun

38. When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds

39. They say Jove laughs. O gentle Romeo

40. My ears have not yet drunk 100 words

46. One pager: Directions
On one plain white piece of paper, draw your interpretation of a line(s) from Juliet’s monologue.
It can be abstract or literal.
The color and objects must take up the WHOLE PAGE.
You may only use up to four lines from her monologue. That means you can use 1 line, 2 lines, 3 lines, or 4 lines. You CANNOT use more than four lines!!!!!
Once you have drawn your interpretation, you must then write what your lines mean somewhere on the page.
Write who said the line and from which act and scene.