Romeo and Juliet Academic Vocab

A drama that ends in catastrophe for the main characters

• tragedy

• protagonist

• stage directions

• Free verse

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A character's remark, either to the audience or to another character, that other characters do not hear

• aside

• soliloquy

• tragedy

• foil

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

The character in the play who is directly opposed to the hero

• protagonist

• antagonist

• foil

• tragic hero

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

speaking one's thought aloud when alone on stage

• tragedy

• soliloquy

• aside

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

comic episodes that offset serious sections

• comic relief

• soliloquy

• allusion

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

central character, the character the audience should identify with

• antagonist

• protagonist

• comic fool

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.9

central message about human nature

• pun

• soliloquy

• aside

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

conversation between two or more people in a play

• iambic pentameter

• pun

• dialogue

• blank verse

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

type of poetry that most resembles speech

• iambic pentameter

• blank verse

• allusion

• pun

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

5 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable

• iambic pentameter

• pun

• blank verse

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9