Act 4 Flashcards
cloth used to wrap a body for burial
shroud
cheated; deceived; tricked
beguiled
comfort; remedy
redress
weaken; diminish
abate
disobedient; willful
wayward
reflective; introspective
pensive
funeral humns or laments
dirges
comfort or consolation in time of sadness
solace
waken; bring out of sleep
rouse
sad; melancholy
doleful
revised; improved
amended
lying flat with head down and arms outstretched as a sign of respect or worship
prostrate
sorrowful; bleak
dismal
formal, dignified ceremony
solemnity
annoying; troublesome
pestilent
necessary food and supplies
provision
rapid pace; urgency of movement
haste
attest; guarantee
warrant
“That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.”
Paris’s confidence
The arrangement of of events and details in a way that later events are anticipated beforehand.
foreshadowing
- “So many guests invite as here are writ.*
- Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.”*
Capulet’s concerns
before
ere
- “If, rather than to marry County Paris,*
- Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,*
- Then it is likely thou wilt undertake*
- A think like death to chide away this shame”*
Friar Lawrence’s plan
- “I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night,*
- For I have need of many orisons*
- To move the heavens to smile upon my state,*
- Which well though knowest is cross and full of sin.”*
Juliet’s excuse to the Nurse
demands; requests
behests
- “Where I have learnt me to repent the sin*
- Of disobedient opposition*
- To you and your behests; and am enjoin’d*
- By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here,*
- To be your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.*
- Henceforth I am ever rul’d by you.”*
Juliet’s declaration
a pledge; by my word
troth
the repetition of words with no others in between - used for vehemence or emphasis
epizeuxis
