Act III and IV
Act V
Literary Terms
Vocabulary Act III
Vocabulary Act IV
100
Romeo gets in front of Mercutio and Tybalt intends to stab Romeo but his sword goes under Romeo’s arm and into Mercutio.
Why is Romeo responsible for Mercutio being stabbed?
100
Romeo goes to the Apothecary to buy poison, and goes home to kill himself.
What does Romeo decide to do when he gets Balthasar’s news?
100
Giving the reader information that alludes to future events in the play.
What is foreshadowing?
100
punished
What does amerce mean?
100
The authority running the country
What does commission refer to?
200
She wants Romeo to be slain for his crime of killing her nephew, Tybalt
What does Lady Capulet request of the Prince?
200
He did not deliver the letter because he could not leave the house where the people were sick.
What does Friar John tell Friar Laurence?
200
The quote, “And if you had the strength of 20 men it would dispatch you straight”
Give an example of Hyperbole
200
King
What does monarch mean?
200
To be very penetrating.
What does distilling mean?
300
The word Night
What does Juliet mention at least 12 times in her soliloquy?
300
She still looked beautiful to him and her lips and cheeks were crimson,
What is it about Juliet that should have alerted Romeo that she wasn't dead?
300
When a character in a play speaks, but no one hears him or her.
What is an aside?
300
to be fooled and seduced.
What does beguiled mean?
300
irregular and unusual.
What does uneven mean?
400
They move up the wedding date so she can be happy with her new husband.
How do the Capulet’s handle the grief that Juliet is experiencing?
400
To do additional damage to the bodies of Tybalt and Juliet because Romeo hates them.
Why does Paris think that Romeo has come to the tomb?
400
“A hungry churchyard”
Give an example of personification
400
to be a wanderer and Nomad
What does runagate mean?
400
To postpone.
What does prorogue mean?
500
Make believe Juliet is dead, and for Romeo to come to her when she wakes and take her to Mantua.
What is the Friar’s plan to get Romeo and Juliet back together?
500
Romeo means in this statement that he is not going to allow fate to step into his life.
What does Romeo mean when he says, “I defy you stars!”
500
"Living Corpse" Cannot be dead and alive at the same time.
Why is "Living Corpse" and Oxymoron?
500
To imagine
What does devise mean?
500
Skilled and smart
What does cunning mean?
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