Romeo and Juliet Vocab Practice

Match the following

• eloquence

• expressiveness; verbal facility

• confines

• skill; proficiency

• dismembered

• took apart; split

• digressing

• interior; insides

• dexterity

• getting off of the main topic; deviating

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

An immoral person is called a/ an

• blazon

• wanton

• effeminate

• asunder

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Displaying love is

• amorous

• beguiled

• affliction

• asunder

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

When something is loud, brassy, gaudy, and showy, it can be considered which vocab. word?

• garish
• stout
• apt
• vile

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The young girls were sentenced to banishment after breaking laws in Jamaica. What is another word for banishment?

• deported

• praised

• initiated

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.4A

CCSS.L.9-10.5B

Which of these is the best example of a transgression?

• marriage

• travel

• exercise

• theft

A long speech given by a character that expresses inner thoughts aloud to himself and the audience.

• soliloquy

• aside

• monologue

• Foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.9-10.3

This word describes when something is created to deceive others.

• Conjure

• Counterfeit

• Vice

• Confidence

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

The final scene of Romeo and Juliet is extremely _____________, with the deaths of the protagonists and 2 others, it leaves viewers feeling sad.

• distressed

• Melancholy

• misery

• meager

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CCSS.L.9-10.4

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Hints in the text about what will occur later in the plot

• Foreshadowing

• Act

• Imagery

• Soliloquy

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5