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what is staging? |
Staging is the part of the play that deals with the set, costumes, lighting and music (everything except the dialogue) |
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what is scripting? |
Scripting is the part of the play that deals with the lines the actors speak |
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what is a tragedy? |
A tragedy is a serious lay that ends unhappily and follows the movement of a character known as a tragic hero |
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what happens at the Prologue/Introduction of the play? |
At the beginning of a piece of literature where the reader learns about the conflict, the character, and the setting |
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a long speech given by a character when he of she is not alone on stage is called a.... |
Monologue |
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a long speech given by a character who is alone on stage |
Soliloque |
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a conversation between two or more people |
dialogue |
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a comment made be a character onstage that is directed to the audience and is not meant for the rest of the characters to hear |
aside |
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one character that sets off another character by strong contract (Mercutio and Romeo are foils and Nurse and Lady Capulet are foils) |
foil |
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a play on the multiple meanings of a word or two words that alike but have different meanings |
Pun |
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a reference to a statement, person, event or place from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science or pop culture n |
Allusion |
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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme, |
couplet |
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comparing two things that are opposite, example would be “jumbo shrimp” |
Oxymoron |
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who starts the play and what is said |
narrator saying romeo and juliet will die |
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comparison using “like” or “as,” |
simile |
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comparison not using “like” or “as,” |
metaphor |
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The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague |
romeo |
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The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl. |
Juliet |
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A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet. |
Friar Lawrence |
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A kinsman to the Prince, and Romeo’s close friend |
Murcutio |
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Juliet’s nurse |
the nurse |
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A Capulet, Juliet’s cousin on her mother’s side who is killed by romeo |
Tybalt |
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The patriarch of the Capulet family, father of Juliet, husband of Lady Capulet, and enemy, for unexplained reasons, of Montague. |
Capulet |
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Juliet’s mother, Capulet’s wife |
Lady Capulet |
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A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet |
Paris |
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Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin and thoughtful friend, he makes a genuine effort to defuse violent scenes in public places, though Mercutio accuses him of having a nasty temper in private |
Benvolio |
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Prince of Verona |
Prince Escalus |
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A Franciscan friar charged by Friar Lawrence with taking the news of Juliet’s false death to Romeo in Mantua |
Friar John |
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Romeo’s dedicated servant, who brings Romeo the news of Juliet’s death, unaware that her death is a ruse. |
Balthasar |
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Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montague. |
Sampson & Gregory |
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Montague’s servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play. |
Abram |
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The woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play. |
Rosaline |
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what year was Shakespeare born? What year did he die? |
April 23, 1564 April 23, 1616 |