Vocabulary
Literary devices
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the decaying flesh of dead animals.
What does "Carrion" mean? (ll. 161)
100
Verbal Irony Juliet looks at the nurse for comport but instead she feels betrayed
"Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much"
100
The nurse changes her mind and decides Juliet should marry Paris. Juliet does not like that the Nurse told her that. Now Juliet does not have as close of a relationship with the Nurse anymore.
How does the relationship between Juliet and the Nurse change at the end of the act?
200
a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject : Edward had only a smattering of Spanish.
What does "smatter" mean? (ll.179).
200
foreshadowing- death
"I would the fool were married to her grave" (ll.145)
200
At first, Capulet thinks Juliet is too young to marry, but then he wants her to marry Paris.
How has Capulet changed his mind about Juliet marrying someone?
300
a thing said or done for amusement; a joke : there are jests about administrative gaffes
What does "jest" mean? (ll.201)
300
foreshadow-
Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
300
Juliet is not going to trust the Nurse anymore with her secrets. She's going to friar Lawrence to see if he can help and if he can't then she's going to kill herself.
What does Juliet mean by this: Go, counselor. Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I'll to the Friar to know his remedy If all else fail, myself have power to die.
400
make wicked; deprave.
What does "beshrew" mean? (ll.240)
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