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pro

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before

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logue

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speaking

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prologue

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an introduction to a book or party

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sonnet

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a poem of 14 lines using of a number if formal rhyme schemes in English typically has 10 syllables per line

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civil

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cultured and polite as relating to “civilized”

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star-crossed

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thwarted by bad luck

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miss

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wrong

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oxymoron

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speech where two contradictory terms are put together for effects

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unrequited love

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it has not returned LOVE

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dis

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dis means away or apart

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disappointed

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frame or mind or attitude

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valiant

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brave and full of courage

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extended metaphor

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figure of speech where a metaphor between two unlike things goes for several lines

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consent

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to agree from someone to do something of yours

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fate

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develop events outside

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free will

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the ability too make your won choices

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prefix post

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behind or after

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cunning

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skill employed shrewdly or slyly as in deceiving

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peril

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vow

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to make a promise

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imagery

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what you think in your head when you read or hear something

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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something that the actor doesn’t know

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dishonorable

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lacking honor shameful

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valor

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strength of mind or sports that enabled the person to encounter danger branvely

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woe

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great sorrow or distress

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slander

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the utterance of false charges wich damage another person reputation

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prevail

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to succeed

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why does the prince call the Montague?

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because they hate each other wit love

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why are the Montague and Capulets fighting

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they are fighting random people that have nothing to do with gang violence

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why might the prince refer to the capitals and Montagues as having purple blood?

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they are wealthy or they have the status

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why do people complain

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two family disturbing the peace

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dad veiw on marriage

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he thinks that she should wait 2 summers until she gets married

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moms veiw on marriage

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thinks that she should get married straight away

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why was the play set in Verona

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they are hot heads and known for violence

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what did the prince say would happen if they fought again

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they would pay with their life

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why did Romeo go to the captive’s party

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to see rosaline

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does the nurse think Juliet should marry Paris

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yes

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Romeo oxymorons

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feather of lead,” “bright smoke,” “cold fire,” “sick health,” “still-waking sleep,” and, earlier, “heavy lightness” and “serious vanity”). he thinks that love is a battle

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meeting Juliet

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her mom wants to get her married she goes to the party to check out Paris

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imagery

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is a type of figurative language. smell, sight feel taste, sound ect.

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inversion

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Shakespeare inverts words goes he to he goes to create news rims or to empathise with particular word

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Archaic Language

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many words that look familiar to us, for example, heavy have very different meanings

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omission

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he will omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes

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Petrawrchan Love

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unrequited love or one-sided love Romeo and Rosaline Romeo loves her but she doesn’t want to get married she wants to be a noun

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prose

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everyday language

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Is she a Capulet O dear account My life is my foe’s debt

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Romeo is saying that and he is a Montague and they are not supposed to talk or be other. their at the ball

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“But soft what light through yonder window breaks it is the east and Juliet is the sun

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He is using light imagery

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my ears have yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongue uttering yet I know the sound art thou, not Romeo and Montague

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she is saying that because they haven’t talked very much at all and she kinda isn’t ready to marry a guy that she barely even knows

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It is too rash too unadvised too sudden too like the lightning which doth cease to be

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she is scared juliet

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A plague o both houses I am sped

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that he is gonna die and he knows that he is

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why did the devil come between us I was hurt under your arm

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Mercutio Romeo let him get stapped becuase he didn’t see him because his arm was blocking him

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o, I am a fortune fool

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he doesn’t have control over his life

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Beautiful tyrant fiend angelica dove-feathered raven wolfish ravening lamb

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oxymoron

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