Romeo and Juliet Act I. Vocabulary and Shakespearean Drama Terms Flashcards

9413808488	Adversary	Opponent; enemy	0
9413808489	Ambling	Strolling	1
9413808490	Augment	To increase	2
9413808491	Beseech	To beg	3
9413808492	Chastity	Abstinence	4
9413808493	Flourish	To swing	5
9413808494	Kinsman	Relative	6
9413808495	Pernicious	Deadly	7
9413808496	Portentous	Forewarning; looming	8
9413808497	Scathe	To harm	9
9413808498	Act	The largest division in a play	10
9413808499	Aside	When a character speaks directly to the audience and the rest of the characters do not hear	11
9413808500	Balcony	Where the wealthy sat in the theater	12
9413808501	Bard	A synonym for a poet and a nickname for Shakespeare	13
9413808502	Box Office	Where the money was stored	14
9413808503	Chorus	A group that narrates the play	15
9413808504	Dialogue	Where two or more characters converse	16
9413808505	Dramatic Irony	When the audience knows something the characters do not	17
9413808506	Dynamic Character	A character whose personality and beliefs change	18
9413808507	Elizabethan England	When Queen Elizabeth I. ruled England	19
9413808508	Flat Character	A character with only one personality trait	20
9413808509	Foil	A character that is the opposite of another character	21
9413808510	Globe Theater	The theater that Shakespeare partly owned	22
9413808511	Groundlings	The people who paid only 1 penny to see the play and where stood near the stage	23
9413808512	Iambic Pentameter	A heartbeat like rhythm that Shakespeare used	24
9413808513	Monologue	A speech give by one character while other characters are on stage	25
9413808514	Prologue	The opening section of the play which acts like an introduction	26
9413808515	Renaissance	A time of renewal of the arts	27
9413808516	Round Character	A character with multiple personality traits	28
9413808517	Scene	The smallest section of a play/ a division of an act	29
9413808518	Soliloquy	A speech given by one character when NO ONE else is on stage	30
9413808519	Static Character	A character whose personality and beliefs do NOT change	31
9413808520	Stratford-upon-Avon	Shakespeare's birthplace	32
9413808521	Tragedy	A piece of literature in which the main characters begin is a position of high status and end in a lower status or death	33
9413808522	Tragic Flaw	Harmatia; the trait that leads to a character's destruction	34
9413808523	Tragic Hero	A character destroyed by his/her own tragic flaw	35
9413808524	William Shakespeare	An English playwright and poet who lived in Elizabethan England who is often referred to as the greatest writer or all time	36