Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
to summon by or as if by invocation or incantation
conjure
A hiding place; shelter
covert
Happy; please; desirous; willing
fain
To press for information; demand with persistence
importuned
Unfavorable; unlucky
inauspicious
Flooding; overwhelming
inundation
Warlike
martial
The jaws or throat of a voracious animal
maw
Prayers
orisons
Thoughtful; reflective
pensive
Harmful; damaging
pernicious
a soft, moist mass of material, typically of plant material or flour, applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth.
poultice
Sign; warning; foreshadowing
presage
Enormous; immense
prodigious
Bitterness; hatred; spite
rancor
Curse; plague
scourge
The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different
semblance
A tomb, grave, or burial place.
sepulcher
A temporary stay
sojourn
A plan or scheme, especially one used to outwit an opponent or achieve an end.
stratagems
recognizable rhythm in a line of verse; regularly stresses and unstressed syllables
meter
refers to the combination of strong stress and weak stress that make up a line of verse
foot/feet
particular type of “foot” consisting of two syllables; stressed (/) followed by an unstressed (U)
iamb
ten syllable line with five iambs
(U/U/U/U/U/U/); Sound of a heartbeat; Used by Shakespeare Attractive to the ear and affect the listener
iambic pentameter
couplet that ends a speech or scene
capping couplets
when two lines of rhyming couplet are in iambic pentameter
Heroic couplets
