Vocab to use when writing about the scene where Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry Juliet
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playwright |
A playwright writes plays.
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ambiguous |
The statement was ambiguous.
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prologue
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The prologue appears right at the start of the play and tells the story.
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dialogue
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There could be no agreement without further dialogue.
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sycophantic |
Paris is sychophantic to Lord Capulet in order to try and win him round.
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withered |
Capulet uses the image 'withered' to explain that...
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powerful |
In this scene, the audience sees that Capulet is a powerful man used to being in charge.
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rhyming |
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couplet |
A couplet is a pair of lines of metre of a poem.
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metaphor |
The author uses a metphor to make the comparison between x and y.
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simile |
Simile involves describing something by comparing it with something else.
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image |
The author uses the image of an unripe fruit to show that Juliet is too young to be married to Paris.
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reasonable |
Capulet is a reasonanle father in this scene.
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amiable |
Juliet's father is amiable towards Paris and his suggestions.
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despondent |
Capulet is despondent in this scene when he recalls how all his other children have died.
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mortality |
Infant mortality was high in Shakespeare's time : Capulet has lost all his children but Juliet.
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