Types of speeches
When two characters are in conversation back and forth.
What is dialogue?
Identify the device: "Love does toward love as schoolboys from their books..."
What is simile?
Why does Juliet go to Friar Lawrence's cell?
What is...she hopes he can help her prevent the wedding on Thursday with Paris?
What does Romeo buy from an apothecary after he hears of Juliet's death?
What is Poison?
A play that is set up for the main character's downfall.
What is tragedy?
A character turns to the audience and briefly shares something only the audience is supposed to hear.
What is aside?
Identify the device: "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow."
What is oxymoron?
What does Friar give to Juliet?
What is...a potion to make her sleep and appear dead?
Why did Romeo not receive Friar's letter about the plan concerning Juliet?
What is... the messenger (Friar John) was held up at a house with a sick child?
The purpose of this text is to tell characters how and when to act.
What is stage directions?
A lengthy speech given in conversation with other characters.
What is monologue?
Identify the device: "I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,I never should forget it."
What is hyperbole?
What is Juliet supposed to tell her parents after she leaves Friar's cell?
Who does Romeo meet at Juliet's tomb and what happens to this person?
Who is Paris? Romeo kills him.
Identify the term... words that go together like: sway, day, may, etc. (what is the term for why these words are grouped together?)
What is... rhyme
When a lengthy speech is given alone by a character on stage.
What is soliloquy?
Identify the device: "Earth hath swallowed all my hopes..."
What is personification?
Who goes to wake Juliet the morning of her wedding?
Who is... Nurse?
What does Juliet do when she awakes after Romeo drank the poison?
What is...she stabs herself with his dagger?
Map the rhyme scheme of this poem:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Rhyme Scheme:
A A B B
Finish this famous line: "Romeo, Romeo, wherefore are thou Romeo? Deny thy Father and refuse thy ______. Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
What is name?
Identify the device: “It is the East and Juliet is the sun."
Metaphor
What does Lord Capulet say they must prepare now for instead of a wedding?
What is...a funeral?
Who does the Prince say is punished for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?
What is one difference between traditional and contemporary poetry?
Answers may vary...
1) traditional is more strict in form
2) contemporary is written in more accessible language
3) contemporary is grounded in the image
4) contemporary is written in free verse