Romeo and Juliet Vocabulary

The belief that the actions and behavior of human beings is the personal choice of the person, not something that is controlled by fate or a divine being (ex: God)

Hints in the text about what will occur later in the plot

Something that must happen to someone, whether they try to avoid it or not; destiny

The use of vivid or figurative (not literal--ex: metaphor, simile) language to represent an object, idea, action, or scene

Enemy; foe

The person who is assumed to be speaking in a written work

A speech in which the speaker is alone with his/her private thoughts; it is designed to inform the audience of what the speaker is really thinking

A struggle between opposing forces

A division of an act within a play; it usually shows what happens between the characters in one particular place

One of the main divisions of a play