Romeo and Juliet: Literary Vocab

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A play or story for performance

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drama

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Includes dialogue and stage directions

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script

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Elements of staging

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Scenery, costumes, lighting, actors' gestures, facial expressions, tone of voice

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Unrhymed iambic pentameter

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Blank verse

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Usually spoken by noble or main characters

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Blank verse

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Type of verse: rhymed iambic pentameter

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rhymed verse

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Normal language without metrical pattern

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Prose

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Spoken by common or troubled characters

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Prose

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Used to set mood, show character difference, signal scene end

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Rhymed verse

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Verse set to music

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Song