Final Exam ~ Act 5 Flashcards
to examine with care; to study
peruse
illness, infection
contagion
scatter, spread
strew
inevitably; forced by circumstances
perforce
frighten; terrify
affright
a tomb; a mausoleum
sepulchre
curse; plague
scourge
placed in a tomb
interred
arrogant; conceited
haughty
unfavorable; unlucky
inauspicious
extreme poverty
penury
unstoppable; unavoidable
inexorable
a pharmacist
apothecary
a breakout of a fatal endemic disease; bubonic plague
pestilence
bad luck; misfortune
mischance
sadness; sorrow
woe
quarantined in a house because of contact with the plague
Friar John
- “… That murd’red my love’s cousin - with which grief*
- It is supposed the fair creature died -*
- And here is come to do some villainous shame*
- To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.”*
Paris’s declaration
a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in turn signifies something, or has a range of reference, beyond itself
symbol/ symbolism
- “I am the greatest, able to do least,*
- Yet most suspected, as the time and place*
- Doth make against me, of this direful murder;*
- And herre I stand, both to impeach and purge*
- Myself condemned and myself escus’d.”*
Friar Lawarence’s apt use of antitheses in his account
- “Meagre were his looks;*
- sharp misery had worn him to the bones;*
- And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”*
the apothecary
- “But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger*
- A precious ring - a ring that I must use*
- In dear employment”*
an excuse given to Balthasar
a figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is addressed as though present
apostrophe
- “I do beseech you, sir, have patience;*
- Your looks are pale and wild, and do import*
- Some misadventure.”*
placed in a tomb
death is a kind of retorative medicine for intense emotional suffering
poison as a cordial
a poisonous evergreen tree with red berries
unfavorable; unlucky
“But I can give thee more;
- For I will raise her statue in pure gold.*
- That whiles Verona by that name is known,*
- There shall no figure at such rate be set*
- As that of true and faithful Juliet.”*
a symbol of restoration and unity for the people
“the untying of the knot”; the conclusion or resolution that follows the climax.
dénouement
- “See what a sourge is laid upon your hate,*
- That heaven finds means to kill your joys*
- with love!”*
the Prince’s sober words
- “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -*
- Strange dream, that gives dead man leave*
- to think! -*
- And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips*
- that I reviv’d, and was an emperor.”*
Romeo on a street in Mantua
- “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death*
- Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth”*
refers to the Capulet tomb
- “Death, that hat suck’d the honey of thy breath,*
- Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.*
- Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet*
- Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,*
- And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”*
example of dramatic theory
a small vial
dram
the setting of scene 3
the Capulet tomb in a churchyard in Verona
a figure in which, in repeating a word, shifts from one of its meanings to another
antanaclasis
- “And that the trunk may be discharg’d of breath*
- As violently as hasty powder fir’d*
- Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.”*
the effect of poison amplified by simile
