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6rrf55Pro

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Before

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Logue

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Someones speaking

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Prologue

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An introduction to a book or play.

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Sonnet

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A poem containing 14 lines with 3 quatrains and 1 couplet at the end. sonnets have a very specific rhyming scheme as well.

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Civil

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cultured or polite as relating to being “civilized”

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Star-crossed

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Thwarting by bad luck.

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Mis

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wrong or incorrect

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Oxymoron

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an oxymoron is a figure of speech where two contradictory terms are put together for effect.

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Unrequited love

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means someone who does not love you back and does not reciprocate the love towards you.

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Dis

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away or apart

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Disposition

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Frame of mind or attitude

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Valiant

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Brave and full of courage

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Extended metsphor

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A comparison between two things that are not alike.

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Consent

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to agree or allow something

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Fate

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the events that are out of someone’s control. Destiny

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Free will

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the ability to make your own choices to act voluntarily.

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Inversion

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Shakespeare’s way of rearranging words to create a rhyme to emphasize a word.

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Archaic language

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many words that look familiar to us but have very different meanings. the meaning came from Shakespeare’s time period.

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Omission

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Shakespeare changes the word to create a rhymes.

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Petrarchan love

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The lover that wants to be alone and doesn’t feel any feeling romantically for the other person who is in love.

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Classical Allusion

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A reference to something from greek mythology.

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Biblical Allusion

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Reference to something in the bible.

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Sonnet

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14 line poem
Complex rhyme scheme
usually written in iambic pentameter

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Pun

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Play on words. Usually with two words that are put together and used as a pun.

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Light imagery

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Paradox

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Seems like an absurd combination that cant be true but is true.

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“Purple fountains”

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the prince says this meaning that they are royalty but are acting in an immature and not okay way.

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“three civil brawls bred of an airy word.”

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the prince says this meaning that the fight was over stupid and dumb things.

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

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The prince says this to the head of the Capulet and Montague family meaning that if there is another fight between there families then they will pay the punishment of death.

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what is Romeo referring to when he says “In strong proof of chastity well armed from loves weak childish bow she lives unharmed.”

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Romeo is referring to that he thinks of love as a battle field of war.

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What were the two conditions Capulet gave Paris?

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That Paris would have to woo Juliet by himself.
Paris would have to wait two years until he could marry her.

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What does it mean when Juliet says “It is an honor I dream not of”?

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Juliet says this when talking to the nurse and her mom. When she says this it means that she does not want to get married.

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Why is Juliet’s mom pushing Julleit to get married so soon?

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Because the other girls Juliet’s age already has kids and are married. When Juliet’s mother was her age she was already married and had Juliet at her age.

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What does it mean when Juleit says “ill look to like if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye that your consent gives strength to make fly.”

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Juliet says this to her mother and nurse this means she will look but not fall in love and is very respectful of her mother’s wishes for her.

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Who is the first to fine out that it was Romeo at the party just by recognizing his voice?

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Tybalt

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What does Romeo say when he finds outs that Juliet was a Capulet?

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He says o dear account! My life is my foe’s debt.

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Post

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Behind, after or later

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Cunning

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

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Peril

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danger

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Vow

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To make a promise

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Imagery

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figurative language. descriptions about living or objects.

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Dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something that the actors don’t know.

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Dishonorable

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lacking honor and shameful

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Valor

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strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger bravely.

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Woe

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great sorrow or distress.

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Slander

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false charges which damage another person’s reputation.

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prevail

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To succeed

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Abhorred

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loathed utterly.

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“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it Is the east, and Juliet is the west”.

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Romeo says this to himself. Romeo is describing Juleit as the light of his life.

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“O, that i was a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek”.

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Romeo says this to himself and shows desire in Juliet.

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“O Romeo, Romeo wherefore art thou Romeo deny thy father and refuse thy name”.

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Juliet is wondering why he has to be a monologue and is speaking to herself here.

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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 sweet”.

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Juliet wants Romeo to give up his name.

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” my ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering”

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Juleit says this to Roemo this show how they barley know each other.

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“if they do see thee, they will murder thee”

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This shows Juliet has fear

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“my life was better ended by their hate than death prorogued wanting thy love”

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Romeo says this to Juliet meaning he rather dies than live a long life without Juliet’s love.

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What would Juliet rather do than marry Paris?

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1) Walk in thievish ways
2) hide me nightly in a charnel house
3) or bid me go into the new man’s grave.

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What is fryer Lawrence’s plan?

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Go home give consent to Mary Paris to drink this liquor and she’ll run through your veins as cold and drowsy humor no pulse no warm no breath be born to that ancient Vault we’re all Kindred of the capulets lie then Romeo will come and free you from Paris.

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Summary of act 4 scene 2

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Capulet arranges preparations for the wedding the calculate is so delighted to learn about Juliet’s obedience to marry Paris that he moves up the wedding day to the next day and goes off to tell Paris about the new day.

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summary of act 4 scene 3

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Julia drinks the poison that Friar Lawrence has given her when the nurse is away for the night.

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summary of act 4 scene 4

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the capulets and the nurse are awake all night preparing for the wedding and the nurse goes to wake up Juliet

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Summary of act 4 scene 5

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the nurse finds out Juliet is dead as caused by Friar’s potion and announces Juliet’s death Juliet’s parents in Paris joined the nurse in the lamentation fire Lawrence interrupts them and begins to arrange Juliet’s funeral with them.

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why does Romeo say “ Tybalt the reason that I have to love the dough much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting villain I am none”

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Romeo says this because he means that they are family now and he can’t not love or have any hatred for family and Temple does not know the Romeo and Juliet are married.

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” o calm dishonorable vile submission”

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Mercutio says this because he is upset that Romeo is not fighting

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“why the devil came you between us I was her under your arm”

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Romeo got in between Mercutio and table during the fight and as a result Mercury was fatally stabbed

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“a plague on both your houses”

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Mercutio blames the feud and curses both the families

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“oh sweet Juliet thy Beauty hath made me effeniment”

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Romeo blames Juliet for not being brave enough to fight Tybalt

67
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“oh I am fortunes fool”

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Romeo blames fate not himself for the tragedy

68
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Whos fault is this and who should be punished for the death of Romeo and Juliet?

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??

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what happens at the end of the play between the Montague and Capulet family?

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After Romeo and Juliet’s death, the Montague family puts a statue to honor Juliet and the Capulet and Montague decide to call off the feud that has been going on for years and make a truce and end the feud

70
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describe the setting in west side story

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first opens at a construction site in an urban environment and a Puerto Rican flag.

71
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Who are the jets and who are the sharks and what are their issues with each other?

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The sharks are the Puerto Rican immigrants and the jets are very poor kids that grew up in the city both the sharks and the jets are each other’s rivals.

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What does tony tell riff he realized while in prison?

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that he was not who he wants to be before he went to prison and that he needs to be by himself and needs to stay away from the jets so he doesn’t fall back to who he used to be.

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what are the jets and sharks planning to do after the dance?

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Fight

74
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What are Maria and Tony planning on doing the next day after the dance?

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go on a date and meet up at the train station.

75
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What does Bernadrdo tell maria she cant do

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she cant marry a jet

76
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what is the song “in America” about

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it is about all the good qualities and opportunities that America has to offer that peurto Rico doesn’t have to offer.

77
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what do the two jets fight about in the police station

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they fight over someone calling the other jet a girl when that person identifies as boy.

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