1. The Blocksof Fiction Ms. Bell English

2. Theme The main Idea. A statement about a universal subject.

3. Theme Romantic Love is one of the dominant themes In Romeo and Juliet

4. Protagonist Receives the conflict in the story.

5. Protagonist Who is it? Romeo or Juliet in Shakespeare’s play? “For never was there story of more woe/ than that of Juliet and her Romeo.”

6. Antagonist Causes the conflict in the story.

7. Antagonist Harry Potter: LordVoldemort Bram Stoker’s Dracula:Dracula The Wizard of Oz: The Wicked Witch of the West

8. Character List Round: a character w/many personality traits Stock: A one-sided character who has become a “type.” Flat: a character with only one or two key personality traits

9. Character List Round Example: Harry Potter Stock Example: The mean step-mother in Cinderella Flat Example: Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet

10. Conflict What the main character struggles against.

11. Conflict Romeo and Juliet are caught in the family feud between the Capulets and the Montegues

12. Narrative Point of View 1st Person = I 2nd Person = You 3rd Person = He Omniscient Objective Limited

13. Tone The emotional idea that the author creates.

14. Tone Is the story happy, romantic, scary, sad…?

15. Setting Where and when the story happens.

16. Symbols Something that stands as itself but also as something larger.

17. Symbols “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Juliet compares Romeo to a rose because he is as sweet to her senses as the smell of a rose

18. Irony A contrast between what is said and what is meant. Also, when things turn out differently than what is expected. The three types are: Dramatic, Verbal Situational

19. Irony Dramatic = The character knows one thing and the audience knows something else (Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, but the audience knows she has taken a drug to look like she is dead.) Verbal = The character says one thing, but means another (Mercutio knows he has received a killing wound but says it’s “only a scratch”. Situational = When what is expected to happen is different from what really happens (The play turns to tragedy because Romeo doesn’t know that Juliet is really alive, and is only in a drug induced coma to make it look like she’s dead.)

20. Motifs Repeated phrase or symbol that adds depth or meaning to the text.

21. Motifs Example: The bunnies in Of Mice and Men represent freedom.