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Meaning of Pro

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Before

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Meaning of Logue

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Speaking

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Meaning of Prologue

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An introduction to a book or a play

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Meaning of Sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line

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Meaning of Civil

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Cultured and polite as relating to be civilized

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Meaning of Star-Crossed

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Thwarted by bad luck

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Meaning of mis

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Wrong or incorrectly

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Meaning of Oxymoron

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A figure of speech where two contradictory terms are put together for effect

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Meaning of Unrequited Love

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It is not returned; therefore, unrequited love is when the person you love does not return the love to you. Also, he/she is not in love with you!

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Meaning of Dis

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Away or apart

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Meaning of Disposition

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Frame of mind or attitude

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Meaning of Valiant

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Brave, full of courage

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Meaning of Extended metaphor

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A figure of speech where a metaphor (comparison between two unlike things) goes for several lines

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Meaning of Consent

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To agree to do or allow something

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Meaning of Fate

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The development of events outside of a person’s control; destiny

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Meaning of Free Will

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The ability to make your own choices; to act voluntarily

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Meaning of the prefix: Post

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Behind, after, later

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Meaning of Cunning

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Skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving

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Meaning of Peril

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Danger

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Meaning of Inversion

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Rearrange the word order to create something new (Him I hit - I hit him)

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Meaning of Archaic Language

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Word looks familiar to us

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Meaning of Omission

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Omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes. (Heard the news - Have you heard the news)

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Meaning of Petrarchan Love

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Lover emphasizes the paralyzing intensity of love (Her only fault is that she is mortal)

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Meaning of Classical Allusion

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An indirect reference to something from the Bible

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Meaning of Pun

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A play on words, or a play upon words, but it would be more accurate to describe punning as playing with the sound of words to achieve particular effects.

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Meaning of Paradox

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A seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true

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“If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”

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The prince says this in Act 1 after the fight between the Capulets and the Montugues

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What does Romeo’s use of the oxymoron “….brawling love…..loving hate…..” tell us about him

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He has opposite conflicting feelings. He is mixed up, confused.

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Why does the Price refer to the Capulets and Montugues as hanging purple fountains

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They are practically royalty and shouldn’t be fighting

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“Three civil brawls bred of an airy word”

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The Capulets and Montugues have started three fight all for nothing

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Why is the play in Verona

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Verona is thought to be the land of love, beautiful setting, Italians are known to be loyal to families, and males thought to be not blooded

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“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness”

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Romeo is feeling confused about love

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“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep”

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Romeo is talking about Rosaline

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What does Capulet (Juliets father) tell Paris (almost husband) he must do in order to marry Juliet

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He must let her her spend two more summers with her and he must impress her

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“It is an honor that I dream not of”

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Juliet is not thinking about marriage

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“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move:
But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your constant gives strength to make it fly”

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Juliet appears to listen and do everything her mother says

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“For saints have hands that pilgrims hands touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers kiss”

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Juliet is flerting

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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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Her radiates are as bright as the sun - Romeo describing Juliet

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“O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!”

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Romeo is showing desire towards Juliet

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“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name”

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Juliet is saying why do you have to be a Montague Romeo

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“O, be some other name belonging to a man. What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”

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Juliet has concern about how their relationship would be like because of Montagues and Capulets

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“My ears have yet no drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering”

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Romeo and Juliet don’t know a lot about each other and things are moving quickly

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“If they do see thee, they will murder thee.”

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Juliet has fear for Romeo because she doesn’t want him to get caught on her property

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“My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

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Romeo is saying he would rather die than to not be with Juliet

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“Or, if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay.”

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Juliet is asking is she was to easy won to Romeo

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“I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like lightning, which doth cease to be ere on can say it lightens. Sweet, good night.”

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Juliet is comparing their love to lightning because their relationship is moving to quickly you can’t even see

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“O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard, being in night, all this is but a dream”

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Romeo is thinking their relationship is just a dream and isn’t real which concerns him.

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“If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, by one that I’ll procure to come to thee”

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Juliet is saying to Romeo that if your honorable send someone to me tomorrow so we can get married.
Juliet is pushing their relationship into the next motion

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“In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor to pure love.”

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Friar Lawarence wants Romeo and Juliet to marry so it will end the fued between the Montagues and Capulets

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“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

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Friar Lawrence is saying that Romeo and Juliet shouldn’t move to fast in their relationship

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What kind of a role does the nurse play for Romeo and Juliets marriage.

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The nurse is playing a big role because she goes all the way to get a message from Romeo and than delivers it back to Juliet

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“These violent delights have violent ends”

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Friar Lawrence is saying that no one really knows what the outcome of their marriage will be

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“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain I am I none.”

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Because Romeo keeps the secret of his marriage with Juliet from Tybalt. Tybalt assumes Romeo is mocking him.

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“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission!”

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Mercutio is mad at Romeo for backing down in a fight. This shows Romeo is not being loyal to his family and it’s shameful to not accept a fight.

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“Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.”

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Romeo tries to break up the fight between the Montugues and the Capulets, but Mercutio ends up getting stabbed because he could not see behind Romeo and where Tybalt’s sword was.

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“A plague o both your houses!”

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The fued caused Mercutio to die because he treis to stand up agianst Tybalt for Romeo, but Romeo gets in the way between them and Murcutio then could not see behind Romeo where Tybalts sword was

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“O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper softened valor’s steel.”

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Romeo has lost his temper because of Juliets beauty.

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“O, I am Fortune’s fool!”

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Romeo is blaming his faiths for what he did (killed Tybalt and got in the way of Mercuito which caused him to die)

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What would Juliet rather do than marry Paris?

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“Chain me with roaring bears, or hide me nightly in a charnel house, hide me with a dead man in his shroud.”

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What is Friar Lawrences plan?

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He tells her to go home and give consent to Paris to marry her.

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Juliet returns from Friar Lawrence pretending to have learned obediance, so Capulet…

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Capulet moves Juliet and Paris’s wedding to the next day very excited.

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In Act 4 scene 1 what happens?

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Juliet does not want to marry Paris and says very extreme things she would rather do instead of marrying him. Friar Lawrence makes a plan with Juliet so she can be with Romeo instead of Paris.

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“O serpent heart hid with a flow ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?

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Juliet is saying that Romeo was nice around her, but when he wasn’t he acted poorly.

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In Act 3, how does Capulet’s mind change about Juliet marrying Paris.

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Capulet tells Paris he can now marry Juliet in 3 days. Originally he told him wait two years. Juliets in asked how she feels about this.

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Gallop

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Impatient, leap, earger, wants things to happen quickly

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Performing night, civil night, though day in night, wings of night, loving black browed night, night before some festival.

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Night imagery is positive because Romeo and Juliet can be together. Night time they are hidden in the dark and no one can see Romeo which is their safe place

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“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die.”

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Juliet stabs herself with Romeos dagger

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“O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughters jointure, for no more.”

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The Capulets and Montugues shake hands and end the anger between them after Romeo and Juliet’s death

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Both Toby and Romeo instantly…

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Fall in love with Maria and Juliet

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In West Side Tony starts off by coming out of jail and Romeo…

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Romeo starts off in a very calm setting sit by a beach writing in his journal

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In West Side everyone is aware there is a fight going to happen between the Jets and Sharks, but in Romeo and Juliet…

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No one knows a fight is going to happen. Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio all fight out of the blue

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In West Side Maria feels guilt about the fight that’s going to happen between the Jets and Sharks, but in Romeo and Juliet

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Juliet does not feel guilty about the fight that happend between the Montagues and Capulets even though Tybalt died

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