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 force EXTERNAL 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.