Romeo and Juliet: Literary Vocab

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A play or story performed for an audience

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drama

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Includes dialogue and stage directions for a play.

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script

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Scenery, costumes, lighting, and actors’ gestures, expressions, and tone of voice

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staging

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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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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 the mood, show character differences, or signal scene endings; characters use this language before leaving a scene.

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rhymed verse

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Verse set to music

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song