Figurative Language
Identify the literary device in the lines below:
"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
Metaphor
Name a modern version of Romeo and Juliet (could be a song, movie, book, etc.)
Gnomeo and Juliet
Westside Story
Love Story
and others
What happens to Romeo and Juliet at the end?
They die
Which theme do the lines below primarily represent?
"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls,
For stony limits cannot hold love out."
Love
Describe the conflict represented in the quote below:
"Two households, both alike in dignity"
From the Prologue, introduces the two feuding families, Capulets and Montagues.
Identify the literary device in the lines below:
"Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should without eyes see pathways to his will!"
Personification
Look at the paper on your desk marked "Comparison for 200".
What mood does this piece exemplify?
Longing, yearning, desire, passion
What information does the Act 1 Prologue give us?
1. The families hate each other
2. Romeo and Juliet were destined to love and die for each other
3. The family feud ended with their deaths
Which theme do the lines below primarily represent?
"My only love sprung from my only hate,
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love is it to me
That I must love a loathed enemy."
Love
Describe the conflict represented in the quote below:
"Deny thy father and refuse thy name"
Act 2; Juliet questions what's in a name and battles between loyalty toward her own family and her affection for Romeo.
Identify the literary device in the lines below:
"There is no world without Verona walls. But purgatory, torture, hell itself."
Hyperbole
Look at the paper on your desk marked "Comparison for 300".
What mood does this piece exemplify?
Passion, love
Who killed these two characters:
Tybalt, Mercutio
Tybalt killed Mercutio, Romeo killed Tybalt
Which theme do the lines below primarily represent?
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life"
Fate
Describe the conflict represented in the quote below:
"A plague o' both your houses"
Act 3, Mercutio, a neutral character, dies as a result of the family conflict
Identify the literary device in the lines below:
"Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine."
Allusion
Name one of the two productions we watched in class.
Globe
Broadway
What went wrong with the Friar's plan?
Romeo didn't get the letter, he got to Juliet's crypt before she woke up
Which theme do the lines below primarily represent?
"You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins"
Violence
Describe the conflict represented in the quote below:
"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I'll call them back again to comfort me.-
Nurse! - What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come vial."
Juliet struggles with whether or not she should take the potion the friar offered her.
Identify the literary device in the lines below:
"Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow"
Oxymoron
Briefly compare the differences between the two productions we have watched as a class.
Compare: characters, depiction of conflict, etc.
Answers will vary.
Name the SIX characters who are dead by the end of the play
Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Montague
Which theme do the lines below primarily represent?
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives;
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin"
Fate
Describe the conflict represented in the quote below:
"Beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there."
Romeo goes to see Juliet one last time. Believing that she is truly dead, he takes the vial of lethal poison he purchased from the apothecary. What Romeo does not know, but the audience does know, is that Juliet is in fact alive.