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

A struggle between opposing forces

• Conflict

• Adversary

• Speaker

• Tragedy

A dramatic written work that deals with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined to downfall or destruction (through a character flaw or a conflict with an overpowering force)

• Tragedy

• Act

• Scene

• Imagery

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

• Imagery

• Speaker

• Foreshadowing

• Scene

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

• Foreshadowing

• Act

• Imagery

• Soliloquy

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

• Speaker

• Tragedy

• Soliloquy

• Free Will

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

• Scene

• Act

• Tragedy

• Imagery

One of the main divisions of a play

• Act

• Scene

• Tragedy

• Free Will

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

Enemy; foe

• Adversary

• Tragedy

• Conflict

• Foreshadowing