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| the daughter of capulet and lady capulet |
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| the son and heir of montague and lady montague |
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| a franciscan friar, friend to both romeo and juliet |
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| a kinsman to the prince and Romeo's close friend |
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| juliets nurse, the woman who breast fed juliet when she was a baby and has cared for juliet her entire life |
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| a capulet, juliet's cousin on her mother's side |
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| the patriarch of the capulet family, father of juliet, husband of lady capulet, and enemy, for unexplained reasons, of montague |
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| juliets mother, capulets wife |
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| romeos father, the patriarch of the montague clan and bitter enemy of capulet |
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| romeos mother, montagues wife |
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| a kinsman of the prince and the suitor of juliet most preferred by capulet |
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| montagues nephew, romeos cousin and thoughtful friend, he makes a genuine effort to defuse violent scenes in public places, tough mercutio accuses him of having a temper in private |
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| franciscan friar charged by friar lawrence with talking the news of juliers false death to romeo |
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| romeos dedicated servant, who bring him the news of juliets death, unaware that it is fake |
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| two servants of the house of capulet, who, like their master, hates the montagues |
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| montagues servant who fights with sampson and gregory in the first scene of the play |
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| a capulet servant who invites guests to capulets feast and escorts the nurse to meet with romeo |
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| the woman with whom romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play |
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| a single character who functions as a narrator offering commentary on the play |
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| comparison made between two unlike things using the words 'like' |
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| comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them |
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| does not directly state that one thing is another, different thing |
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| an object is given human characteristics |
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| group of readers that the writer is addressing |
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| arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern |
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| generally regular pattern of stressed syllables in poetry |
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| a rhyme that occurs at the end of a line |
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| a rhyme that occurs within a line |
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| repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words |
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| repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words |
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| the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complimentary in structure or meaning |
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| words or phrases used in order to stimulate the senses |
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