Romeo and Juliet Terms

Aside

lines spoken alone or between a few characters that the other characters on stage do not hear (Audience + few characters)

Soliloquy

lines spoken by one character on stage that reveals their private thoughts, feelings, and motivations (private but audience)

Monologue

lines spoken by one character on stage to another character or the audience that reveals thoughts, feelings, motivations (all stage plus audience).

Iambic Pentameter

Iamb and penta

Iamb

1 foot that contains one unstressed and one stressed beat

penta

5 meter (measure/line)

foil character

shows opposite traits of the main character

in medias res

in the middle of

how many brawls between the families

3