Romeo And Juliet

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what is staging?

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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?

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Scripting is the part of the play that deals with the lines the actors speak

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what is a tragedy?

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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?

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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....

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Monologue

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a long speech given by a character who is alone on stage

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Soliloque

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a conversation between two or more people

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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

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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)

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foil

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a play on the multiple meanings of a word or two words that alike but have different meanings

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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

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Allusion

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two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme,

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couplet

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comparing two things that are opposite, example would be “jumbo shrimp”

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Oxymoron

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who starts the play and what is said

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narrator saying romeo and juliet will die

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comparison using “like” or “as,”

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simile

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comparison not using “like” or “as,”

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metaphor

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The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague

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romeo

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The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl.

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Juliet

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A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet.

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Friar Lawrence

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A kinsman to the Prince, and Romeo’s close friend

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Murcutio

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Juliet’s nurse

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the nurse

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A Capulet, Juliet’s cousin on her mother’s side who is killed by romeo

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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.

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Capulet

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Juliet’s mother, Capulet’s wife

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Lady Capulet

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A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet

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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

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Benvolio

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Prince of Verona

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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

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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.

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Balthasar

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Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montague.

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Sampson & Gregory

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Montague’s servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play.

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Abram

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The woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play.

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Rosaline

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what year was Shakespeare born?

What year did he die?

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April 23, 1564

April 23, 1616