Act 3 Flashcards
hypocrites; deceivers
dissemblers
separate; apart
asunder
meeting place; hangout area
haunt
dead and rotting animal flesh
carrion
departing from; deviating from
digressing
a loose cloak or shawl, worn esp. by women
mantle
out and about; away from home
abroad
courage; bravery
valour
overly bright; gaudy
garish
fluent, articulate, and persuasive speech
eloquence
displaying romantic love or desire
amorous
to find fault with
chide
detests; hates
abhors
mirthful; cheerful; delightful
jocund
refrain from; avoid
forbear
exiled; deported
banished
expression of sorrow; grief
lamentation
unmanly; womanly
effeminate
conflict; bitter disagreement
strife
ordered; commanded
decreed
“Go, counsellor; ; Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.”
Juliet’s conclusion following the Nurse’s advice
a long, usually serious speech made by a character in a play (or other composition) while the speaker is alone - delivered to the audience in order to reveal the character’s thoughts or give information that is essential for the audience to know
soliloquy
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”
an example of simile
when the audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation onstage (or in the work( and forsees the oncoming disaster or triumph, but the character(s) does not
dramatic irony
light mockery or teasing banter
persiflage
“Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of the tomb.”
Juliet’s foreboding imagery
“He was born to shame: / Upon his brow shame is asham’d to sit; / For ‘tis a throne where honour may be crown’d / sole monarch of the universal earth.”
Juliet’s conclusion about her fears
deliberate understatement for effect
litotes
“I do protest I never injur’d thee, / But love thee better than though canst devise / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; / And so, good Capulet - which name I tender / As dearly as mine own - be satisfied.”
Romeo’s unexpected declaration
A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined - as in the name of the term itself, which literally means “sharp dullness”
oxymoron
“There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, / In that word’s death; no words can that woe sound.”
“Romeo is banished”
“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough.”
Mercutio’s grave words
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.”
an example of simili
Juliet and Paris will be married on Thursday.
Capulet’s decision in scene 4
- “Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!*
- Dove-feather’d raven! wolfish-ravening lamb!*
- Despised substance of divinest show!”*
Juliet voicing her fears at hearing the shocking news of Tybalt’s death
