R & J Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Impulsiveness or hastiness; action without thought

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

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