ROMEO AND JULIET VOCABULARY l Adversarynounan opponent enemy

ROMEO AND JULIET VOCABULARY l Adversary-noun-an opponent, enemy, or foe l Boisterous-adj-loud and noisy, without restraint l Nuptial-noun-of or pertaining to a marriage or wedding

ROMEO AND JULIET LITERARY TERMS

ASIDE: l. A short speech heard by the audience but not other characters

BLANK VERSE: l. A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

CHARACTERIZATION: l The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character l Methods may include (1) by what the character says about himself or herself; (2) by what others reveal about the character; and (3) by the character's own actions

CONFLICT: l Protagonist vs. another force l EXTERNAL TYPES: INTERNAL TYPES: MAN VS. HIMSELF MAN VS. NATURE MAN VS. MACHINE MAN VS. SOCIETY

COUPLET: l. A stanza of two rhyming lines

EPITHET lword before or after a name that describes the character l. EXAMPLE: Achilles” “fleet-footed

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE l saying one thing and meaning something else

FOIL la character whose personality is the opposite of the personality of another character.

FORESHADOWING: lproviding come hints of what is to

IAMBIC PENTAMETER: l. Meter in poetry with five iambic feet per line.

METAPHOR: l Comparing without the use of the words "like" or "as. "

SIMILE: l. Comparing “as” using “like” or

PUN: lplay on words where a word has two meanings at the same time l Eminem raps, “Now you get to watch her leave /out the window/Guess that's why they call it window pane” He means a window glass pane in the window. l But he also means its called a window pane because it sounds like pain and he’s in pain. l