R & J Vocabulary

This term means giving human qualities to something that is not human

• foreshadowing

• oxymoron

• personification

• pun

This is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. For example, cruel kindness.

• pun

• foreshadowing

• epilogue

• oxymoron

This term means being married to two people at the same time.

• bigamy

• prologue

• exeunt

• aside

A comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as. Juliet is the sun.

• exeunt

• paradox

• simile

• metaphor

Latin word for leaf; a sheet of paper folded once to make two leaves or four pages.

• quarto

• folio

• pun

• chorus

Exile; the punishment of being sent away from a country or place

• denouement

• impetuosity

• banishment

• comic relief

The mistaken use of a word in place of a similar sounding one; indite for invite

• pun

• malapropism

• protagonist

• oxymoron

Impulsiveness or hastiness; action without thought

• comic relief

• quarantine

• epilogue

• impetuosity

Words spoken by a character in a play that are heard by the audience but supposedly not by actors on the stage

• aside

• conceit

• oxymoron

• malapropism

To separate or segregate because of fear of contamination from a communicable disease

• epilogue

• exeunt

• bigamy

• quarantine