Vocabulary
Parts of Speech
Romeo and Juliet
Mix
Figures of Speech
100

Rough, severe, or unpleasant in sound, tone, or feeling.

Harsh

100

a person, place, or thing

Noun

100

The location that Romeo and Juliet met.

Party

100

Showing beauty, elegance, or smoothness in movement or style.

Graceful

100

Comparison between two things using like or as

Simile

200

Clear, detailed, and full of life; easily pictured by the mind.

Vivid

200

a word that takes the place of a noun or noun phrase

Pronoun

200

The girl Romeo first loved

Rosaline

200

A word that connects words, phrases, or clauses

Conjunction

200

Comparison of two things without using like or as

Metaphor

300

Language that appeals to the five senses to create a picture in the reader’s mind.

Imagery

300

A word that describes an action, state, or occurrence

Verb

300

Killed Mercutio

Tybalt

300

The author’s attitude toward the subject, shown through word choice and style.

Tone

300

Giving a non human thing human traits

personification

400

The dictionary definition or literal meaning of a word.

Dennotation

400

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Adjective

400

What Friar Laurence hopes to achieve by agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet

Peace or No more Fighting

400

A word that shows the relationship between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence

Preposition

400

The repetition of the same initial consonant sound in a series of words.

Alliteration

500

 The emotional or cultural meaning attached to a word beyond its dictionary definition.

Connotation

500

A word that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb, often indicating manner, place, or time.

Adverb

500

The reason Friar John fail to deliver the letter to Romeo.

Sickness or Quarantine or Plague

500

The reason Tybalt wants to fight Romeo.

Romeo crashed their party
500

a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction

Oxymoron