Romeo and Juliet Vocab Flashcards
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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 play or book
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sonnet
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a poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme
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civil
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Cultured and polite
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star-crossed
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thwarted by bad luck
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mis
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wrong
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oxymoron
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figure of speech where two contradictory terms are put together
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Unrequited Love
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If a person does not return the love
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dis
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away or apart
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disposition
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the frame of mind or attitude
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valiant
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brave or full of courage
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extended metaphor
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figure of speech
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consent
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to agree
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fate
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development of events outside of a person’s control
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free will
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ability to make your own choices
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prefix
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later
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cunning
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skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner
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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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type of figurative language that appeals senses
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dramatic irony
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when the audience knows something that the actors don’t
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dishonorable
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shameful
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valor
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strength of mind or enables a person to encounter danger bravely
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woe
distress
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slander
utterance of false charges damaging a person reputation
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prevail
to succeed
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abhorred
loathed utterly
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imagery
Figurative language that appeals senses. The descriptions can be about living things or inanimate
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Inversion
Shakespeare often rearranges the word order to create new rhythms or to emphasize a particular word.
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archaic language
Many words that look familiar to us for example heavy had a different meaning.
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Omission
Shakespeare might omit a whole word or part of it to create rhyme.
- Heard the news instead of Have you heard the news
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Petrarchan love
Love is not returned
What Romeo experiences with Rosaline
one person who is in love
lover is sad
lover wants to be alone
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Prose
Everyday language
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Poetry
Concentrated language with distinctive rhythm or style.
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"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? it is East and Juliet is the sun
-Romeo describes Juliet by using light imagery
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O, that I was a glove upon her hand that I might touch that cheek
Romeo expresses a desire
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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.
Juliet says your name does not define you
she is worried about him being a Montague
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O Romeo Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo deny thy father and refuse thy name
Juliet is asking him to give up his family wealth and status for her
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My ears yet not drunk a hundred words of thy tongues utterings
Juliet is saying how quickly things are happening
the theme is haste
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If they do see they will murder thee
Juliet expresses concern
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My life was better ended by their hate than death prorogued wanting of thy love
Romeo expresses a desire
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I have no joy of this contract tonight it is too rash too unadvised too sudden too like the lightning which doth cease
Juliet expresses concern
Symlle of a lighting bolt
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Therefore pardon me and not impute this yielding to light love
Juliet is speaking
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O blessed blessed night I am afeard being in night all this is but a dream
Romeo expresses desire with a fake concern
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If that thy bent of love be honorable thy purpose marriage send me word tomorrow by one that ill procure to come to thee.
Romeo wants to get married showing desire.
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Wisely and slow they stumble that run fast
Friar Lawrence cautions Romeo not to move quickly but is going to marry them that same day.
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Tybalt the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such greeting villain I am none.
Romeo is telling Tybalt that he does not want to fight and is being sincere about his love to tybalt.
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O calm dishonorable vile submission
Mercutio telling romeo that he is bad by not honoring his family.
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A plague o both houses I am sped
Mercutio says he blamed the Montague and Capulets for his death.
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why devil came you between us I was hurt under your arm
in Mercutio's last words he is mad at Romeo
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O sweet Juliet thy beauty hath made me effeminate
Romeo Blames Juliet and Romeo does not want to fight her family
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O I am a fortune fool
Romeo is saying it is not his fault Mercutio died and that he likes Juliet.
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But Wherefore villain didst thou kill my cousin that villain cousin would have killed my husband
Juliet feels better about Romeo because she knew it was a kill or be killed situation
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O bid me leap rather than marry Paris from off battlements of any tower
Juliet would rather die than marry Paris
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what is the 1st step of Friar Lawrence's plan
Give consent to marry paris
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2nd step of Friar Lawrence's plan
Keep the nurse out of the chamber
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3rd step of Friar Lawrences' plan
Juliet should drink a vial
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4th part of Friar Lawrence's plan
it will make her appear dead
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5th Part of Friar Lawrence's plan
she will then sleep for 42 hours
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6th part of Friar Lawrence's plan
she will lay in her bed unconscious having her parents think she died
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7th part of Friar Lawrence's plan
she will be brought to a vault
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8th Part of Friar Lawrence's plan
Romeo will receive his letters and come to Juliet
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9th Part of Friar Lawrence's plan
Romeo and Juliet will flea to Manatua
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Come Bitter conduct come unsavory guide thou desperate pilot now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark here's to my love o true apothecary thy drugs are quick thus with a kiss I die
Romeo final words before he dies
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A glooming Peace this morning with it brings the sun for sorrow will not show his head go hence to have more talk of these sad things some shall be pardoned and some shall be punished for never was a story of more woe than this Juliet and her Romeo
The prince telling them that some people will be pardoned and some people will be punished.
