Final Exam ~ Act 5 Flashcards
(36 cards)
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