8TH GRADE
VOCABULARY - ROMEO AND JULIET
LITERARY TERMS
prologue, irony, paradox
see hand-out on poetry terms
sonnet form
a. 14 lines
b. rhyme scheme - 3
quatrains and a couplet
c. meter - iambic
pentameter
GRAMMAR
antecedent (ante - before,
cedo - to go)
PROLOGUE
all words in the prologue
such as grudge, mutiny, civil, fatal, loins, misadventure, strife,
naught, toil, strive
ACT I, sc. I
choler
3 valiant
8 tyrant
20
profaner
78 quench 80 pernicious 80
forfeit
93 adversary
102 defiance 106
fray
113 portentous
137 importuned 141
chaos
177 oppression
184 transgression
185
propagate
187 chastity 211 chaste 218
posterity
221