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Romeo and Juliet Flashcards

1
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imagery

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visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.

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figurative language

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a type of communication that does not use a word’s strict or realistic meaning.

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inversion

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To create new rhythm, or to emphasize a particular word.

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Archaic Language

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many words that look familiar to us

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Omission

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Shakespeare might omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes

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6
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Prose

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Everyday Language

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Poetry

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Concentrated Language with a distinctive rhythm and style

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valiant

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brave

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oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).

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pro/prologue

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Before

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logue

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Speaking

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sonnet

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A poem of fourteen lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes. english typically having ten syllables per line

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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 or incorrectly

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16
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unrequited love

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not returned, someone does love you back

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dis

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away or apart

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18
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disposition

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frame of mind and attitude

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valiant

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brave, full of courage

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extended metaphor

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a figure of speech, where a metaphor goes on for several lines

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21
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consent

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to agree or allow something

22
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fate

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the development of events outside of a persons control

23
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free will

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the ability to make your own choices

24
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prefix: post

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behind, after, later

25
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cunning

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skill employed in a skrewd or sly manner

26
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peril

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danger

27
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vow

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to make a promise

28
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dramatic irony

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when the audience knows something that the actors on stage dont

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dishonorable

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lacking honor, shameful

30
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valor

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

31
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woe

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great sorrow or stress

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slander

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the utterance of false charges which damage another persons reputation

33
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abhorred

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loathed utterly

34
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“Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, should without eyes see pathways to his will!’

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Romeo has mixed feelings about love

35
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“With cupids arrow; she hath Dians wit; and, in strong proof of chastity well armed, from loves weak and childish bow she lives unharm’d”

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Love is a battle for Romeo

36
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“For beauty, starved with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity”

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Romeo is focusing on Juliets beauty

37
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What does Capulet tell paris he must do before marrying Juliet

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“You must wait 2 summers”

38
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“Well think of marriage now, younger than you”

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Juliet should already be married by now

39
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“in one respect ill thy assistant”

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Friar chooses to help Romeo

40
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“but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

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Romeo compares Juliet to light imagery

41
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“Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”

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Juliet questions Romeo and herself

42
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“Oh Romeo, where art thou Romeo? deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou will not”

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Juliet questions herself about Romeo, and his actions

43
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“My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongues offering, yet i know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?”

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Juliet questions Romeo about his family.
Things are moving fast.

44
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“What o’clock shall i send to thee? By the Hour of nine”

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Juliet asks Romeo when they should meet up. to get married.

45
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“Within the infant rind of this weak flower, Poison hath residence and medicine power”

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Friar Lawrence tends to the flower

46
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“Tybalt the reason i have love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting”

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Romeo tries to calm down tybalt

47
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“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission, Tybalt, you ratcatcher will you walk?”

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48
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“I am hurt, A plague o both houses, i am sped”

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mercutio curses them

49
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“i am fortunes fool!”

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Romeo blames fortune for his problems

50
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“it best agrees with night, come civil night, thou sober suited matron in black”

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Juliet uses dark imagery to compare

51
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“o serpent heart with a flowering face! did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?”

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the nurse thinks romeo tricked them

52
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