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Literary Devices
Interpretation
Reading Comprehension
Plot or Events
Analysis
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Identify the device that appears in the following: Friar Lawrence: "These violent delights have violent ends" (2.6. 9)
Foreshadowing
100
What kind of irony is being used in the following passage? Juliet: Indeed, I never shall be satisfied With Romeo till I behold him-- dead!
Verbal Irony
100
What are 3 things Friar Lawrence compares Romeo's behavior to?
Women, children, beasts/animals
100
In Act 3 Scene 1, Mercutio calls Benvolio the more quarrelsome of the two. What kind of irony is this?
Situational Irony
100
How do Romeo and Juliet express their love for each other? Give one example.
Complementing each other's beauty, often through comparisons. These comparisons often reflect things in nature such as the sun, stars, moon, etc.
200
Identify the device that appears in the following passage: “The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” (2.3. 1)
Personification
200
In Act 3 Scene 1, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt. What did Tybalt call Romeo? How does Romeo respond and why?
Tybalt: Thou art a villian Romeo: I love you because we are family now. I do not want to fight you.
200
Name the speaker: "Tybalt the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not." (3.1. 64-66)
Romeo
200
At the end of Act 3 Scene 5, the nurse advises Juliet to marry ____________. Why?
Lord Paris; he's of good standing and is not banished.
200
Name characters in the play that are foils (opposing in personality). How dos Shakespeare develop the their characters as foils?
Answers will vary.
300
Identify the device that appears in the following passage: "This days black fate on more days doth depend. This but begins the woe others must end." (3.1. 124)
Foreshadowing
300
Identify a device that appears in the following passage: “O God, I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale” (3.5. 54-57)
Foreshadowing
300
Why does Lord Capulet want to put Juliet out on the street?
Juliet says she won't marry Paris.
300
For what 3 reasons does Friar Lawrence tell Romeo he should be happy?
1.) Juliet is alive 2.) Your enemy Tybalt is dead 3.) The prince was lenient because he banished you instead of killing you.
300
Explain the effects of Shakespeare's use of dramatic irony on us a readers/audience members.
--Similar to the prologue, it creates suspense --Frustration --Strong emotions/sympathy in a reader because we know what awaits a character and may see the character act against his or her own well-being
400
Identify the device that appears in the following passage: "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." (2.2, 46-50)
Simile
400
Identify the device that appears in the following passage: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep." (2.2, 140-142)
Simile
400
Where does Romeo follow Juliet?
Her balcony after the ball
400
____________ killed Mercutio and _____________ killed Tybalt.
1. Tybalt 2. Romeo
400
Why would Lord Capulet want Juliet to marry Paris after just telling him that she is too young?
Tybalt is dead, and Lord Capulet wants to keep Juliet away from Romeo
500
"My life were better ended by their hate Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love." (2.2. 83)
Foreshadowing and juxtaposition
500
Who said the following passage? “And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender, To answer ‘I’ll not wed,’ ‘I cannot love,’ ‘I am too young,’ ‘I pray you, pardon me.’— But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you.” (3.5. 195-199)
Lord Capulet
500
What factor does Romeo blame for him killing Tybalt when he calls himself "Fortune's Fool?"
Fate
500
The Prince tells everyone that if there is another Capulet vs. Montague fight, the punishment will be death. However, after his kinsman Mercutio and Tybalt are killed, he lets the sole survivor of the feud, Romeo, live. What are the TWO means of punishment he enacts instead?
Families are fined and Romeo is banished to Mantua
500
In Act 2 Scene 3, Friar Lawrence discusses flowers, earth, and man having both positive and negative qualities. How does Romeo and Juliet's relationship reflect this idea?
Their love is strong and has the possibility to end the feud, yet, it is uncalculated and impulsive.