Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

3. a character that provides contrast to another character in personality.
4. Character, has many personality traits like a real person.
7. Rank, is often used in Shakespeare’s plays by the way in which characters speak. The more rhythm a character has indicated how important they are in the play.
9. references by characters to well-known people, places, or events from myths or literature to add meaning or understanding.
10. Irony, is a contradiction between what a character thinks or says and what the audience or reader knows to be true.
12. the main character in the play.
14. feeling of curiosity or uncertainty about the outcome of events in a literary work.

1. very lengthy speech that is addressed to other characters in the play.
2. Verse, unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter, or lines of five stressed beats in which every second syllable is stressed.
5. a character that is in conflict with the main character.
6. Motive, the reason behind an individual’s thoughts or actions.
8. Character, one-dimensional, embodying only a single trait.
9. a brief remark by a character revealing thoughts or feelings to the audience, unheard by other characters.
11. a drama in which the central character who is usually of a noble stature, meets with disaster or great misfortune.
13. lengthy speech in which a character-usually alone on stage-expresses his or her thoughts to the audience.