Vocab
This adjective acts as a sign or warning, often associated with bad luck.
What is portentous?
This country is where our story takes places.
What is Italy?
Steven Patrick Morrissey, lead singer of The Smiths, claims that heaven knows he's miserable now.
What is personification?
(giving human qualities to non-human things)
(Heaven-->knowing)
In Romeo and Juliet, this occurs in Act 3 when Tyblat slays Mercutio.
What is the Climax?
Known for being the tallest members of the deer family, Mr. McCaslin's miniature shih tzu shares a name with this 4 hoofed mammal.
What is a Moose?
This word rhymes with an often finely chopped green onion.
What is chide?
Our story takes place during this time period.
In Aerosmith's "Dream On," Steven Tyler says, "Half my life's in books' written pages," comparing life to a book where chapters are written by, "fools and sages."
What is a metaphor?
(direct comparison)
The prologue, in addition to the first fight scene in Act 1 Scene 1, introduces preliminary information about the story to the audience.
What is Exposition?
As a branch of Americorps, Mr. McCaslin volunteered for this organization, which lead to him becoming a teacher.
What is Teach for America?
To hold this feeling means to have immense hatred or bitterness.
What is rancor?
This character can't read.
Who is Peter?
In Orbiter, Noah Khan finds himself outside of Watertown, claiming he's found himself on, "alien ground," exaggerating the fact that he feels lost.
What is hyperbole?
(hyperbole-->exaggerated speech not meant to be taken literally)
In Act 2, the secret (off-stage) wedding leads us to the climax.
What is Rising Action?
Mr. McCaslin, Lizzie Borden, and Benedict Cumberbatch all have this in common.
What is a birthday?
(Ol' Liz-->7/19/1860)
(BC-->7/19/1976)
(McCaslin-->7/19/1997)
The Prince of Cat's accused the Prince of Verona's cousin of doing this with Romeo.
What is consort?
This mother died of a broken heart :(
Who was Lady Montague?
In "Cardigan," Taylor Swift recounts when she, "felt like an old cardigan under someone's bed", using this figurative language to compare herself to dirty laundry.
What is simile?
(comparison using like or as)
In Act 4, Juliet's scheme w/the Friar sets us up for the play's end.
What is Falling Action?
This local township would be spelled the same as Mr. McCaslin's middle name if it had an extra F.
What is Kiefer?
Hank Hill, from the hit tv show King of the Hill, sells propane and propane accessories. If he had an evil twin, he would sell accessories that could best be described using this vocab word.
What is profane?
This character caught plague, preventing an urgent message from being delivered.
Who is Friar John?
In, "Pocketful of Sunshine," Natasha Bedingfield recounts a place where she goes that nobody knows, where the river flows (and she calls it home).
What is assonance?
(repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words or syllables/goes, no-body, knows, flows, home)
What is the Resolution?
This private Jesuit university in Kansas City, MO is where Mr. McCaslin received is BA in English (Writing & Film).
What is Rockhurst University?