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| Act | The main division of a play |
| what is romeo and juliet? | A tragic comedy |
| meter | A line in a play with a set amount of symbols |
| Situational irony | When romeo goes to the party to Rosaline but meets Juliet instead |
| What is an example of Dramatic irony? | When Juliet takes the potion everyone thinks shes dead but we know shes not |
| tragic flaw | Romeo doesn't think before he acts |
| Aside | When friar Lawrence says " i know why this should be slowed down" but he does and Paris isn't suppose to hear |
| soliloquy | When Juliet talks about romeo no one is suppose to hear it and its like a diary |
| Monologue | When the prince talks in the beginning of the story |
| couplet | Used at the end of a chorus out on stage |
| Tradgic Hero | Romeo used to be wealthy then at the end he got banished and killed himself over his enemy/love |
| chorus | When a group comes out and speaks the prologs |
| Prose | Potpan and the servants speak in prose |
| Sonnet | end of the prologues |
| Verbal Irony | When shes talks to her parents about her marriage with her parents |
| Catharsis | When It sat Juliet funeral then it goes to pot pan and its like a fresh air |
| Iambic pentameter | 5-footed line of 2-syllable feet with an unstressed/stressed pattern |
| Scene | A smaller subdivision of a play |
| Tragedy | When Romeo and Juliet die |
| Verse | The way romeo and Juliet talk the richer |
| Lord Montegue | Romoes dad, Head of the house, feisty |
| Balthazar | Guard/kingsman, Montegue |
| Juliet | Romeos love, Daughter of lady/lord capulet. 13 throughout play |
| Sampson | Guard of the capulets |
| Friar Laurence | mixes herbs, marries romeo and Juliet |
| Chores | The people who say the prologue |
| Lady Montague | Married to lord Montague, Romeos mom |
| Abrabm | Kinsman for Montague |
| Tybalt | Juliet's cousin, mean, kills mercutio,romeo kills him |
| Gregory | Guard of Capulet |
| Friar John | Helper of friar Laurence, the one who tries to get the letter to romeo |
| Rosaline | Rejected romeo, never was shown |
| Romeo | Juliets love, Montague |
| Lord Capulet | Juliet's dad, married to lady Capulet, head of Capulet house |
| Nurse | Has taken care of Juliet all her life, knows about romeo before anyone does, very ugly, 2 teeth |
| The prince | Prince of Verona, very serious |
| Paris | Is in love with Juliet, gets killed by romeo and asks if he can be lied in the tomb next to his love Juliet |
| Citizens of Verona | Tired of all the fighting in Verona and want it ti stop |
| Benvolio | Romeos cousin, very calm, Romeos counselor |
| Lady Capulet | Juliet's mom, married to lord Capulet, very dramatic |
| Peter(potpan) | Very funny, helps the nurse, stupid |
| Mercutio | A citizen of Verona, Hangs out with Romeo, Crazy, gets killed by Tyalt in a duel |
| Apothicary | Sells romeo the poison, very poor, lives in Manchua |
| What happened during the morning brawl? | The fight between the kinsmen of the houses, the prince said the next person to fight is to die- the first thing to happen |
| Where is romeo at ? | Romeo is in the woods crying over Rosaline |
| The Capulet party | Romeo mercutio and Benvolio sneak into the party, that's where romeo and Juliet met - its that night |
| The Garden scene | Its where Juliet confesses her feeling for romeo but she doesn't know he is their then romeo confesses his love for Juliet and they should be married the next day. |
| Meeting up with romeo | They meet up at Friar Laurences cell and get married in the morning |
| The fight with tybalt | Is literally right after they get married mercutio jumps in gets killed by tybalt romeo get mad kills tybalt then flees the scene |
| Banishment | Romeo get banished from Verona because he killed tybalt and romeo and juliet throw a ft |
| Friars plan | Is to have juliet go home say she wants to marry paris take the potion and go to the tomb romeo will be waiting and theyll run away together |
| The marriage to Paris | Gets moved up one day |
| Juliets plan | is to take the potion a day early |
| The plan fails | romeo doesn't get the letter and gets a poison so he can kill himself |
| The capulet tomb | romeo kills paris the he kills himself next to juliet she wakes up kills herself then they end the family feud |
| A quote from romeo | " Her eyes shine brighter then any star if tehe were up in the sky the birds would think its day" HEr eyes are so pretty and shine so bright the birds would sing cause they woud think its day |