Figurative Language
Quince refers to the play of Pyramus and Thisbe as "the most lamentable comedy." (1.2)
Oxymoron
List the Capulets in this play. #RomeoAndJuliet
Juliet, Tybalt, Lord and Lady Capulet.
Bonus: The Nurse, Peter
Explain the conflict. Who is the protagonist? The Antagonist?
Romeo and Juliet love each other but the family feud forces them to hide their love. Antagonist: The feud, the fates, and the law work against them. Protagonist: Romeo and Juliet
Explain the conflict. Who is the protagonist? The Antagonist?
Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Demetrius and Lysander both want to marry Hermia. Hermia wants to marry Lysander.
Protagonist: Hermia, Lysander, and Helena. Antagonist: The fairies, Demetrius, Egeus, the Duke.
What is this an example of? “Through bush, through brier, / Over park, over pale, / Through flood, through fire,” - Fairy (2.1)
Alliteration
“Please, tell my father, madam, I won't marry yet. And, when I do marry, I swear, it will be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris. That's really news!” Juliet to her mother. (3.5)
Dramatic Irony
Name who belongs in the Montague family. #RomeoAndJuliet
Romeo, Benvolio, Lord and Lady Montague.
Bonus: Bathasar
Why does Juliet fake her death?
Her father insists she marry Paris or be disowned. She can't because she is already married to Romeo.
Who runs away in the woods? Why do they run away?
Hermia and Lysander. To get married and escape the law / her father.
Who is Egeus in A Midsummer's Night Dream?
Hermia's father.
"Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale." Juliet to Romeo (3.5)
Foreshadowing
Who does Hermia love? #AMidsummerNight'sDream
Lysander
Why does Romeo get banished?
He killed Tybalt in revenge for Tybalt killing Mercutio.
What does Helena desire? What is her internal conflict? What is her opinion of Hermia and her relationship and plans with Lysander?
Helena wants Demetrius. Her internal conflict is she wants
Demetrius to love her but doesn’t know how. She admires Hermia’s relationship with Lysander but is also jealous of it. She wishes them luck but thenlater betrays them.
What is this an example of? “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, / Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,/ Quite ever-canopied with luscious woodbine, / With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine” - Oberon (2.1)
Imagery
“There is no world without Verona walls / But purgatory, torture, hell itself; Hence ‘banished’ is banished from the world, And world’s exile is death… Calling death ‘banished/ Thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe / And smilest upon that stroke that murders me (3.3)
Hyperbole
Who does Helena love? #AMidsummerNight'sDream
Demetrius
Who killed Mercutio? What does Mercutio do with his dying breath?
Tybalt kills him. He curses both families because he died in their feud.
What does the city symbolize? What does the woods symbolize?
The city symbolizes rule and order. The woods symbolize chaos and mischief.
What is Hermia’s internal conflict? What does her father force her to consider that Theseus is forced to enforce as ruler? What does the mise en scene of this shot suggest?
Her internal conflict is whether she should marry for love or
follow her father’s wishes and marry Demetrius. Her father
threatens to enforce the death penalty on her if she won’t do as she’s told. The mise en scene (arrangement of the shot) physically puts her in the middle of the men she is conflicted with.
“Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,/ Flower as she was, deflowered by him. / Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir. / My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,/ And leave him all: life, living, all is Death’s” Lord Capulet speaking to Paris of Juliet (4.5)
Personification
Who belongs to the nobility? #RomeoAndJuliet
The Prince, Paris, Mercutio
Explain the events from Juliet's fake death to her real death.
1) The messenger does not make it to Romeo
2) Romeo hears that she is dead and buys poison.
3) Romeo kills Paris
4) Romeo visits her tomb to see her one more time. He drinks the poison.
5) She wakes up. The Friar is unsuccessful in getting her to leave. She kills herself.
External conflict:
They are mad at each other. They are fighting over the Blue child. They both want to raise him for their own Servant.
Internal conflict:
They desire each other but they don’t give in because of their external conflict over the blue child.
What is this an example of? “Not Hermia but Helena I love: / Who will not change a raven for a dove?” -Lysander (2.2)
Antithesis