Romeo and Juliet: Literary Vocab

A play or story meant to be performed for an audience

• drama
• script
• staging
• novel

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.1

CCSS.RL.K.5

Includes dialogue (the speech of the characters) and stage directions (instructions for performing the play and descriptions of settings, characters, and actions)

• drama
• script
• staging
• novel

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.3

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

• drama
• script
• staging
• novel

Tags

CCSS.SL.K.4

unrhymed iambic pentameter

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.5

usually spoken by noble or main characters  

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.5

rhymed iambic pentameter

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.2A

CCSS.RL.K.5

so-called normal language (no metrical pattern)  

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

spoken by common or “low” characters; sometimes spoken by troubled characters

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.5

used to set the mood, show a difference in character, or to signal the end of a scene; characters speak this kind of language before leaving a scene

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RL.K.5

verse set to music

• blank verse
• rhymed verse
• prose
• song

Tags

CCSS.RF.K.2A

CCSS.RL.K.5