Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

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The belief that the actions and behavior of human beings is the personal choice of the person, not something that is controlled by fate or a divine being (ex: God)

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Free Will

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Hints in the text about what will occur later in the plot

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Foreshadowing

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Something that must happen to someone, whether they try to avoid it or not; destiny

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Fate

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The use of vivid or figurative (not literal--ex: metaphor, simile) language to represent an object, idea, action, or scene

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Imagery

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Enemy; foe

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Adversary

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The person who is assumed to be speaking in a written work

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Speaker

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A speech in which the speaker is alone with his/her private thoughts; it is designed to inform the audience of what the speaker is really thinking

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Soliloquy

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A struggle between opposing forces

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Conflict

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A division of an act within a play; it usually shows what happens between the characters in one particular place

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Scene

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One of the main divisions of a play

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Act