Romeo and Juliet Drama Terms: Prologue and Act I

A story told in front of an audience

• Aside

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

• Drama

Ordinary writing

• Prose

• Poetry

• Sonnet

• Song

Verse written in stanzas; usually rhymes

• iambic pentameter

• monologue

• prose

• poetry

The author of a play

• Dramatist

• Grand master

• play master

• playwright

Units of action in a play; like parts of a book

• trilogy

• acts

• scenes

• chapters

The individual parts of the acts; change with the setting

• scenes

• chapters

• parts

• stanzas

Tells the actors how to move and speak

• director

• stage directions

• script

• stage text

A meter in poetry that refers to a line of five iambic feet; one foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

• Shakespearean sonnet

• trochaic pentameter

• iambic pentameter

• dactylic tetrameter

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

• monologue

• blank verse

• written verse

• aside

A single line of words in a poem

• iamb

• quatrain

• sentence

• line