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