| A | B |
|---|
| nuptials | time when wedding vows are taken |
| ambiguity | unclear |
| banishment | exile |
| adversary | enemy |
| boisterous | violent, rowdy |
| dexterity | skill, cleverness |
| idolatry | extreme devotion |
| lament | to grieve |
| peruse | look over |
| reconcile | to become friendly again |
| shroud | burial cloth |
| sonnet | 14 lined poem, iambic pentameter |
| soliloquy | speech given alone on stage, personal thoughts |
| dramatic irony | when the audience knows something theactors do not |
| pun | humorous word or phrase suggesting different meanings |
| oxymoron | two words/phrases that are contradictory |
| figurative language | language which suggests more than literal meaning |
| foil | characters with contrasting personalities meant to highlight the differences |
| iambic pentameter | 5 stressed and unstressed syllables = 10 beats in each line |
| metaphor | direct comparison of two unlike ideas without using "like" or "as" |
| quatrain | four rhyming lines of poetry |
| couplet | two rhyming lines of poetry |
