VOCABULARY WORDS

Romeo and Juliet

Vocabulary Words
 Play: A story  Tragic hero: An
acted out live, admirable figure
using dialogue and who has a
action personal failing
 Tragedy: A play that leads to his or
that presents her downfall
serious or  Tragic flaw: The
important actions failing that leads a
and ends character to make
unhappily for the choices that result
main character in tragedy
Vocabulary Words
 Tragic hero: An
admirable figure
who has a
personal failing
that leads to his or
her downfall
 Tragic flaw: A
failing that leads a
character to make
choices that result
in tragedy
Vocabulary Words
 Comedy: A play  Monologue: A long
that ends happily, in speech made by
which the main one character to
character gets what one or more other
he or she wants characters onstage
 Dialogue:  Soliloquy: A
Conversation speech made by a
between characters character who is
in a play alone onstage,
speaking to himself
or herself or to the
audience
Vocabulary Words
 Aside: Short  Stage directions:
speech delivered Descriptions of
to the audience or how characters
to another move onstage and
character, that how they speak
others onstage are their lines
not supposed to  Props: portable
hear items that actors
carry or handle
onstage