romeo & juliet
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- a fundamental and universal idea explored in a literary work
- theme
- the location of a narrative in time and space, setting create mood or atmosphere
- setting
- an authors indivudial way of using language to reflect his or her own personality and attitudes
- voice
- Montague's servant, fightsd with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play
- Abram
- The Prince of Verona, kinsman of Mercutio and Paris
- Prince Escalus
- Juliet's mother
- Lady Capulet
- Romeo's mother
- Lady Montague
- kindsman to the Prince, friend of Romeo's
- Mercutio
- the woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at he beginning of the play
- Rosaline
- the arrangement of the events in a story in including the sequence in whch they are told
- plot
- the way words in a piece of writing are put together to form lines, phrases or clauses, the basic structure of a piece of writing
- syntax
- the perspective that a narrative takes toward the events it describes
- point of view
- Juliet's father and head of the Capulet family, an enemy to Montague
- Capulet
- a story
- narrative
- Franciscan friar, friend to Romeo and Juliet
- Friar Lawrence
- kinsman of the Prince, and a suitor of Juliet's, preferred by her father Capulet
- Paris
- language thar brings to mind sense-ompressions, representing things that can be seen, smelled, heard, tasted or touched
- imagery
- a secondary plot that is of less importance to the overall story but may servce as a point of contrast
- subplot
- the chorus is a single character who as deceloped in Greek drama, functions as a narrator offering commentary on the plays plot & themes
- The Chorus
- a literary style in which the narrator tells the story from his or her own point of view and referes to himself as "I"
- first person point of view
- the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet, a beautiful 13 yr old girl
- Juliet
- the main character around whom the story evolves
- protagonists
- the moment of greatest intensity in a text or major turning point in the plot
- climax
- a Franciscan friar
- Friar John
- the principal character in a literary work or narrative
- hero/heroine
- the son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague, a young handsome boy about 16 yrs old
- Romeo
- Romeo's father and head of the Montague family, bitter enemy of Capulet
- Montague
- a capulet servant
- Peter
- a person, animal or any other thing with a personality that appears in a narrative
- character
- the person(sometimes a character) who tells a story, the voice assumed by the writer
- narrator
- the authors attitude toward the subject or character in a story or poem or toward the reader
- tone
- Montague's nethew, Romeo's cousin and friend
- Benvolio
- the central struggle that moves the plot forward
- conflict
- a Capulet, Juliet's cousin on her mother's side, vain and fashionable
- Tybalt
- a recurringt idfrea, structure, contrast or device that develops or informs the major themes of a work of literature
- motif
- Romeo's dedicated servant
- Balthasar
- an object, character, figure or color that is used to represent an abstract idea or concept
- symbol
- a protagonist who is not admirable or who challenges notions of what should be considered admirable
- antihero
- Juliet's nurse, has cared for her since infancy
- The Nurse
- an apothecary in Mantua
- The Apothecary
- the entity that acts to frustrate the goals of the protagonist
- antagonist