Romeo and Juliet Vocab Words

A section of a play that is then broken up into scenes

A pair of rhyming lines in iambic pentameter

A play that ends in a catastrophe, disaster, or great misfort-une for the main character

A meter in which each line has 5 stressed syllables, each followed by an unstressed syllable

A group of performers who comment on the action of the play

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

Speeches or conversations of a character in a play

A play that ends happily, after an amusing series of predicaments

A long, uninterrupted speech by a character to other characters who are frozen in time

A speech, often in verse, addressed to the audience by an actor at the beginning of the play

A brief remark in which a character expresses private thoughts to the audience not other characters

A section of an act within a play

Notes in a play that describe how the work should be performed or staged

Unrhymed poetry written in a meter called iambic pentameter

A character who provides a contrast to another character

A speech in which a character reveals private thoughts that the audience in allowed to overhear