Romeo And Juliet Vocab

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Foreshadowing

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be a warning or indication of (a future event)

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1. Tybalt Act 1 Scene 5
*I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall
Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.

2. Romeo Act 1 Scene 4
*I fear, too early: for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He, that hath the steerage of my course,
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen.

3. Friar Laurence Act 2 Scene 6
*These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite:
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

4. Juliet Act 3 Scene 5
*O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb:
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale.

5. Juliet Act 4 Scene 3
* How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? there's a fearful point!
Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?


6. Romeo Act 5 Scene 1
*Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night.

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Accident

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An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury

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the quarrelling households just happen to be feuding when the lovers hook up; Paris just happens to be courting Juliet at the time when she meets Romeo; Romeo just happens to find Juliet's balcony when he's galavanting around in Capulet's orchard;

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Couplet

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Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

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"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

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Complication

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a circumstance that complicates something; a difficulty

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he Montaques and the Capulets have been "at war" for years, yet it didn't stop Romeo and Juliet from falling in love. Because of the situation between the families, Romeo and Juliet's relationship has very little chance of being accepted by the families, so they decide to sneak off and elope. Unfortunately, their plan backfires because of miscommunication, resulting in a double suicide. The one positive resolution stemming from this tragedy is the end of the long-standing war between the Montaques and the Capulets.

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Oxymoron

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g., faith unfaithful kept him falsely true).

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Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything, from nothing first create,
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Juliet also uses oxymorons after having found out about her cousins death at the hands of Romeo she says:

O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical'
Dove-feathered raven,wolfish ravening lamb'
A damned saint, an honourable villain


Beautiful tyrant
fiend angelical
dove feathered raven
wolvish ravening lamb
dispicised substance of ravenest show