Understanding Rhetoric
The definition and explanation of pathos.
What is the appeal to emotions and how the message makes the audience feel?
A long speech spoken by a character to himself, another character, or to the audience
What is Monologue?
The two people that know Romeo and Juliet have secretly gotten married.
Who are Friar Lawrence and the Nurse?
At just thirteen years old, she begins the play as an obedient, naive girl. However, her love for Romeo forces her to grow up overnight.
Who is Juliet?
The family that Tybalt belong to.
What is the capulets?
The definition and explanation of ethos.
What is the appeal to ethics and credibility. Based off of the author’s or speaker’s character and if they are trustworthy and knowledgable?
Thoughts spoken aloud by a character when he/she is alone, or thinks he/she is alone.
What is a Soliloquy?
The reason why Benvolio encourages Romeo to sneak into the Capulet family feast.
To look at other beautiful women so Romeo can forget about Rosaline.
Juliet’s lifelong and closest confidante. She provides comic relief with her earthy, vulgar humor and long-winded stories. She fiercely loves Juliet and acts as the secret messenger for the lovers.
Who is the Nurse?
The word "doth/dost" translation in modern English.
What is does/do?
The difference between argumentative and persuasive writing.
What is argumentative focuses on logic and facts and aims to prove a claim (logos and ethos)
and persuasive focuses on emotions and opinions to convince or inspire (pathos and ethos)?
Giving human attributes to non-human objects
What is personification?
The major problem that Prince Escalus warns the Montagues and Capulets about in Act 1.
What is Their street fights have disturbed the peace of the city three time?
Juliet’s cousin. Vain, aggressive, and obsessed with honor, he is the primary instigator of violence in the play.
Who is Tybalt?
The family that Mercutio belongs to.
What is the montagues?
The meaning of anaphora.
What is repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses?
Example: "I have a dream that... I have a dream that..." (MLK)
An example of an oxymoron.
What is...answers will vary?
The reason why Juliet first agrees to drink Friar Laurence's strange potion.
What is it will make her appear dead for 42 hours so she can escape her forced wedding to Paris?
Romeo’s cousin and a loyal friend. True to his name (which hints at "goodwill"), he is the ultimate peacemaker. He actively tries to defuse fights in the streets of Verona and acts as a calm, reasonable foil to Romeo’s dramatic emotional swings and Tybalt's fiery temper.
Who is Benvolio?
A persuasive technique that creates fear to convince someone to act or believe a certain way.
What is fear mongering?
The persuasive technique where the speech/advertisement uses a famous person’s endorsement and can appeal emotionally, even if they aren’t experts.
This leans on pathos
Celebrity Testimonials
A play on words, especially those that sound alike, but have different meanings.
What is a pun?
The reason why Romeo doesn't receive Friar Laurence's letter explaining that Juliet is actually alive.
Friar John is quarantined in a house due to a sudden outbreak of the plague.
A wealthy, handsome kinsman to the Prince who seeks Juliet’s hand in marriage. He is not a villain, but rather an proper, traditional suitor who behaves appropriately according to the era's customs, completely unaware that Juliet's heart belongs to Romeo.
Who is Paris?
The definition of rhetoric and the father of rhetoric.
What is the art of speaking or writing effectively and Aristotle, a greek philosopher?