romeo and juliet vocabulary adversary-noun-an opponent, enemy, or foe boisterous-adj-loud and noisy,...

ROMEO AND JULIET VOCABULARY

Adversary-noun-an opponent, enemy, or foe

Boisterous-adj-loud and noisy, without restraint

Nuptial-noun-of or pertaining to a marriage or wedding

ROMEO AND JULIET

LITERARY TERMS

ASIDE:

A short speech heard by the audience but not other characters

BLANK VERSE:

A poem written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

CHARACTERIZATION:

The method a writer uses to reveal the personality of a character

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:Protagonist vs. another forceEXTERNAL TYPES: INTERNAL TYPES:MAN VS. MAN MAN VS. HIMSELF

MAN VS. NATURE

MAN VS. MACHINE

MAN VS. SOCIETY

COUPLET:

A stanza of two rhyming lines

EPITHET

word before or after a name that describes the character

EXAMPLE: “fleet-footed Achilles”

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

saying one thing and meaning something else

FOIL

a character whose personality is the opposite of the personality of another character.

FORESHADOWING:

providing hints of what is to come

IAMBIC PENTAMETER:

Meter in poetry with five iambic feet per line.

METAPHOR:

Comparing without the use of the words "like" or "as."

SIMILE:

Comparing using “like” or “as”

PUN:play on words where a word has

two meanings at the same time

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. But he also means its called a window pane because it

sounds like pain and he’s in pain.