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
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