Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

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)

• Free Will

• Fate

• Foreshadowing

• Tragedy

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

• Foreshadowing

• Act

• Imagery

• Soliloquy

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• Fate

• Free Will

• Conflict

• Adversary

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Imagery

• Speaker

• Foreshadowing

• Scene

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Enemy; foe

• Adversary

• Tragedy

• Conflict

• Foreshadowing

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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

• Speaker

• Tragedy

• Soliloquy

• Free Will

Tags

CCSS.SL.9-10.3

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

• Soliloquy

• Speaker

• Conflict

• Fate

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

A struggle between opposing forces

• Conflict

• Adversary

• Speaker

• Tragedy

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

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

• Scene

• Act

• Tragedy

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

One of the main divisions of a play

• Act

• Scene

• Tragedy

• Free Will