Romeo & Juliet vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pernicious | Causing great injury |
| Augmenting | Increasing |
| Transgression | Wrongdoing |
| Grievance | Injustice |
| Procure | To obtain |
| Predominant | Having great influence over others |
| Intercession | Pleading on another's behalf |
| Sallow | Pale or yellowish |
| Lamentable | Distressing |
| Unwieldy | Clumsy |
| Gallant | Brave and noble |
| Fray | A noisy flight or battle |
| Martial | Associated with war or battle |
| Exile | To banish |
| Eloquence | Graceful, persuasive speech |
| Fickle | Likely to change |
| Pensive | Deeply thoughtful |
| Enjoined | Ordered |
| Wayward | Headstrong |
| Dismal | Causing gloom or misery |
| Loathsome | Disgusting |
| Remnants | Remainders |
| Ambiguities | Unclear statements |
| Penury | Extreme poverty |
| Haughty | Arrogant |
| Scourage | Torment or punishment |
| Metaphor | An extended comparison showing the similarities between two things |
| Character foil | A person who is paired with another character to develop the latter's traits & personality by contrast |
| Alliteration | The repetition of the same initial sound in 2 or more words of a line |
| Allusion | A reference to a literary work or historical person to explain a present situation |
| Oxymoron | A contrast of two contradictory terms for the sake of emphasis |
| Pun | A humorous play on words to suggest more than one meaning |
| Analogy | A figure of speech that implies or states a comparison between 2 unlike things |
| Simile | A figure of speech that states a comparison using "like" or "as" |
| Sonnet | A 14-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several rhyme schemes |
| Blank verse | An unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Couplet | Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
| Iambic pentameter | A meter in poetry. It has an unrhymed line with 5 iambs or feet. |
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