Act 2 Vocabulary Actions & Speech
To summon or call upon a spirit or person as if by magic or a spell.
What is Conjure?
The written text of a play, containing dialogue and stage instructions for performance.
What is a Script
What is Enmity?
Deep-seated, mutual hatred or active ill will between opposing groups or individuals.
An angry argument or disagreement, such as the street fight between the Capulet and Montague servants.
What is a Quarrel?
A major structural division or unit within a play, often composed of several smaller scenes.
What is an Act?
To speak, converse, or engage in communication, as in "Her eye discourses; I will answer it".
What is Discourse?
Physical items or handheld objects used on stage by actors during a performance.
What are Props?
What is Idolatry?
Excessive devotion, worship, or reverence directed toward a person or object.
What is Augmenting?
To make something greater by adding to it, such as Romeo swelling the morning dew with his tears.
A long speech delivered by a single character on stage to express their thoughts to other characters present.
What is a Monologue?
To ask earnestly, beg, or implore someone to do something.
What is Entreat?
A person who writes dramatic works for the stage.
What is a Playwright?
What is Repose?
A state of rest, peace, or tranquility.
Possessing or showing great courage, bravery, or determination.
What is Valiant?
The historic open-air London playhouse where many of William Shakespeare's original works were performed.
What is The Globe Theater?
The act of pleading, intervening, or mediating on behalf of another person.
What is Intercession?
A spoken conversation occurring between two or more characters on stage.
What is Dialogue?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is Rancor?
Bitter, long-standing resentment or hatred that Friar Laurence hopes to turn into pure love.
What is Vile?
Extremely unpleasant, morally corrupt, or wicked.
A style of drama characterized by sensational plot lines, exaggerated characters, and heightened emotion.
What is Melodrama?
To scold, express disapproval, or rebuke gently.
What is Chide?
Written instructions in a script directing character movement, position, tone, or technical cues.
What are Stage Directions?
What is Lamentable?
Regrettable, distressing, or deserving of grief and sorrow.
Great sorrow, grief, or distress, described in the play's famous final lines.
What is Woe?
An extreme form of realism that presents human behavior as strictly shaped by heredity and environment.
What is Naturalism?