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