| Move me to stand | Fight like a madman |
| Show myself a tyrant | Brutal, vicious |
| Aye | Yes |
| Heartless Hinds | Cowards |
| Airy word | An insult |
| Portentous | Important |
| Importune | Inquire/ask |
| Thy | You |
| Bite your thumb | Insulting obscene gesture |
| Kinsmen | Relatives |
| Civil Brawls | Riots |
| Augmenting | Adding to |
| Ere | Before |
| Shrift | Confession |
| Analogy | Comparing the details of 2 items that are very different |
| Chorus | Narrators of a story |
| Foil | Characters who have the opposite personalities and share the stage at the same time |
| Hubris | Manly-man pride-Usually the cause of a downfall |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows something that the characters don’t |
| Motif | Reoccurring ideas or images |
| Tragic Hero | A character who descends from a noble status to one of disgrace due to a tragic flaw. |
| Tragic Flaw | A flaw in a character’s personality that he or she is unaware of and usually leads to a character’s downfall |
Ashlee’s English Vocab-Romeo and Juliet
December 18, 2019