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Vocabulary
Root Words
Rhetoric
Poetry
Romeo and Juliet
100
A feeling of anger or hatred.
What is rancor?
100
In the word foliage and folio the root word foli has this meaning in English.
What is leaf?
100
This type of persuasion appeals to the audience's emotions
What is pathos?
100
A type of metaphor in which non-human things or ideas posses human qualities or actions.
What is personification?
100
These two characters are the only ones to know that Romeo and Juliet have been married?
Who are the Nurse and Friar Lawrence?
200
A showy, self-assured manner or style
What is panache?
200
In the English word luminous and illuminate this root word lumin means . .
What is light?
200
This type of persuasion uses the facts and evidence of the text to persuade
What is logos?
200
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. These line from Romeo and Juliet are an example of this poetic device?
What is a metaphor?
200
Which character curses both families by saying, "A plague on both your houses?"
Who is Mercutio?
300
A fatal disease or plague
What is pestilence?
300
The root word mort, as in mortal and mortician has this English meaning
What is death?
300
An example of this type of appeal is: "Doctors all over the world recommend this type of treatment."
What is ethos?
300
An obvious and deliberate exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
300
These two characters do things to try to end the feud between the families.
Who are Friar Lawrence and the Prince?
400
A slight knowledge, hint or clue
What is an inkling?
400
The root graph in the English words autograph and telegraph has this meaning
What is write?
400
"You’ll make the right decision because you have something that not many people do: you have heart." is an example of this persuasive appeal.
What is pathos?
400
The repetition of vowel sounds of neighboring words in a poem.
What is assonance?
400
This is a type of poem appears in the play and has 14 lines, 10 syllables per line, and a regular rhyme scheme.
What is a sonnet?
500
Expressing or revealing sad thoughtfulness
What is pensive?
500
The root tempo, which appears in the English words temporary and contemporary has this meaning
What is time?
500
"In 25 years of driving the same route, I haven’t seen a single deer," is an example of this persuasive appeal
What is logos?
500
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.” (From the prologue to Act 1.) This excerpt from Romeo and Juliet demonstrates this poetic sound device.
What is alliteration?
500
I do protest I never injured thee, But love thou better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; And so, good Capulet, which name I tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied. The speaker of these lines and whom he is speaking to.
Who is Romeo to Tybalt?