Vocab
Grammar Vocab
Romeo and Juliet
Greek Gods
General Terms
100
Belong to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
What is Antebellum
100
Answers the question What? or Whom? after an action verb that is transitive
What is Direct Object
100
Person Romeo was in love with
Who is Rosaline
100
Roman Name: Neptune God of: The sea, Earthquakes, Horses Symbols: Sea, Trident, horse, dolphin
Who is Poseidon
100
Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces
What is Conflict
200
Attended by favorable circumstances, promising,favorable
What is Auspicious
200
Tells what the subject is, does, or what happens to it; action/state of being
What is Verb/Predicate
200
Romeo's cousin/ Peace keeper in Romeo and Juliet
Who is Benvolio
200
Roman Name: Minerva Goddess of: Wisdom/war Symbol: Owl, olive, tree, plow, loom
Who is Athena
200
Main character in fiction or drama
What is protagonist
300
An advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
What is Suffragist
300
Word pronoun replaces
What is Antecedent
300
Married Anne Hathaway/ Wrote 37 plays
Who is Shakespeare
300
Roman Name: Juno Goddess of: The Gods/Marriage/Family Symbol: Peacock, cow, wedding ring
Who is Hera
300
Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme
What is Free Verse
400
A quantity such as the mean or variance that characterizes a statistical population and that be estimated by calculation from sample data; boundaries or limitations
What is parameter
400
Word group that contains a verb and its subject and that is used as a sentence or part of a sentence
What is Clause
400
Person who banished Romeo
Who is Prince Escalus
400
Roman Name: Ceres God of: Agriculture Seasons related to her
Who is Demeter
400
Long story told in elevated language (usually poetry) which relates the great deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies the values of a particular society.
What is epic
500
Having unlimited power
What is omnipotent
500
Expresses a complete thought and can stand by itself as a sentence.
What is Independent Clause
500
Died from grief
Who is Lady Montague
500
Roman Name: Bacchus God of wine
Who is Dionysus
500
Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds usually at the beginnings of words that are close together in a poem.
What is Alliteration