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Literary Terms• Allusion– A reference another literary work, person, place, or

event that the average reader may be unfamiliar with.• Aside–When a character speaks his or her thoughts aloud

and is heard by the audience, but not by other characters

• Blank Verse– Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter

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Literary Terms• Comic Relief– A humorous scene or speech that is

included in drama• Foil– A character who contrasts another

character• Foreshadowing–When a writer uses hints or clues to

indicate events or situations that will occur later in the plot BELL

RINGER

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Literary Terms• Irony– The contrast between appearance and reality. Reality is

opposite of what it seems• Paradox– A statement that seems to contradict itself but is

actually true• Pun– A joke that comes from a play on words. Words can

have multiple meanings• Soliloquy– A speech in which a character speaks thoughts out loud.

BELL RINGER

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• The chorus expresses the hatred separating the Montagues and Capulets

• Setting is in Verona, an Italian city during 14th century Italy.

• Use of foreshadowing and metaphor– “A Pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”

The PrologueBELL RINGER

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Foreshadowing in the Prologue

foreshadowingfatal

Misadventured overthrows

Children’s end

death

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In Class Assignment – The Prologue

1. A Chorus (‘group voice’) often suggests a moral to be drawn from a play. What does this Chorus say this love story will teach us?

2. Does the Chorus suggest we should sympathize with the lovers or the parents? Why?

3. The Chorus “gives away the ending.” The story was already well-known to Shakespeare’s audience, as it is to us. Does knowing the ending all along add to or diminish the tragedy?

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Act 1, Scene 1 Questions – 25 points

• Act I - Scene4. Why start with minor characters? 5. Beneath the bad puns, what are Sampson and Gregory

fighting about? 6. What does the brawl reveal about the values of this

society? 7. How respected are its leaders–Montague, Capulet, Prince

Escalus? 8. How could different staging make Prince Escalus’s warning

more or less effective? 9. As friends, what do Benvolio and Romeo have in common?

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Act I, Scene 2NOTES

• Paris asks Capulet’s permission to marry Juliet

• Capulet invites Paris to his party.

• Romeo finds out that Rosaline will be present at the party.

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Act I, Scene 3NOTES

• The Nurse serves as a foil to Juliet- she is loud, outspoken, and impulsive; Juliet is quiet and reserved.

• Lady Capulet convinces Juliet that Paris would make a good husband.

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Homework – Discussion Questions

• 1. Why is old Capulet so eager to marry his daughter to Paris?

• 2. Why does Benvolio suggest going to Capulet’s party?

• 3. What is the point of the embarrassing story that the Nurse tells about Juliet as a toddler?

• 4. How well does the Nurse know Juliet? • 5. How well does Juliet’s mother know her daughter?• 6. Is there evidence that each of the three women

has doubts about Juliet marrying so young?

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Act I, Scene 4• Benvolio wants to have

fun• Mercutio tries to talk

Romeo into a better mood.

• Romeo replies that he can't borrow Cupid's wings because he has been so badly wounded by Cupid's arrow.

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Act I, Scene 4- Mercutio

• Uses several puns, dirty jokes, and vivid descriptions.

• "sink in it, should you burden love -- / Too great oppression for a tender thing" (1.4.24). – means that if Romeo is going to blame

("burden") love for his state of mind, he will only sink further into love.

– also means that if he gets what he wants (sex) he will sink into the woman and be a burden to her.

• Thinks Romeo is too serious• Love-sickness is caused by a lack of

sex.

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Act I, Scene 4- Mercutio

• Romeo doesn’t believe that he can win the game of love and doesn’t want to play.

• Mercutio tells Romeo to shut up about being "done" and to quit being a do-nothing. – Says that if Romeo is "done," he's Dun the horse

(name of a log that people pulled out of mud during a Christmas game.)

• Mercutio says that love is “bullcrap,” and that Romeo is stuck in it up to the ears.

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Act I, Scene 4- Romeo’s Speech

• Foreshadowing • chain of events ("consequence") • chain of events does terminate

the duration ("expire the term") of Romeo's life with premature ("untimely") death.

• Despite his premonitions, Romeo goes to Capulet's house.

• Says that he is doing so because he is entrusting his fate to "He, that hath the steerage of my course." (God)

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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet

• The servant's bustle picks up the pace of the play.

• Everything is speeding up. • Capulet welcomes everyone – speaks to Romeo's company when he

says, "Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you" (1.5.16-17).

– Making sure that these strangers in masks feel welcome.

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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet

• Romeo sees Juliet and falls in love with her instantly.

• Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice and sends for his rapier to kill him.

• Capulet insists on Tybalt’s obedience, reminding him of Romeo’s good character.

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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet

• Romeo and Juliet continue their exchanges and they kiss– interrupted by the Nurse, (sends

Juliet to find her mother.) • Romeo realizes the grave

consequences of their love.• Juliet discovers from the Nurse

that Romeo is a Montague.

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Act II, Scene 1• Romeo enters and

speaks of his love for Juliet. He jumps over a Capulet wall, hoping to see her.

• Mercutio mocks Romeo's feelings for Rosaline.

• Benvolio suggests that they leave and go look for him.

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Act II, Scene II• The Capulet orchard • Romeo watches Juliet and starts

to speak with her. • They proclaim their love for each

other here. • Romeo and Juliet quickly agree to

marry the next day at nine o'clock.

• The Nurse calls for Juliet and she has to go. They say goodbye to each other for the night and exit.

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Act II, Scene II - Juliet

• Willing to denounce her family name to be with him: – "O Romeo, Romeo!

Wherefore art thou Romeo?/ Deny thy father and refuse thy name;/ Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/ And I'll no longer be a Capulet.“

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Act II, Scene II - Names

• The lovers go into a long discourse about names and how they are nothing more than words.

• The fact that she is a Capulet by name and he is a Montague by name should not affect their love for each other like it does.– "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

Thou art thyself, thou not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 38-44

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Act II, Scene 3 – Friar Lawrence

• Friar Laurence – uses a plant metaphor to comment on

how -- in both plants and people -- everything has some good, and every good can be abused and turned to evil

– meditating on the struggle between good and evil in nature and man

– Criticizes Romeo for jumping from Rosaline to Juliet

– Agrees to perform the ceremony– thinks that the marriage may end the

hatred between the Capulets and Montagues.

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Act II, Scene 4• Tone of this scene is

humorous as everyone jokes around

• Benvolio – says that Tybalt has sent a

challenge to Romeo• Mercutio– switches from making fun of

Tybalt to making fun of Romeo. – Romeo and Mercutio exchange

a series of puns

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Act II, Scene 4• The Nurse (enters with

Peter)– Becomes the target of

more jokes– complains about

Mercutio– receives from Romeo

the information about time and place of the wedding

– chatters on about how sweet Juliet is.

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Act II, Scene 5• Plot is fast-paced. • Scene 5 is about anticipation, not

information. • Juliet impatiently awaits the return of

the Nurse with news from Romeo • The Nurse teases Juliet by finding all

kinds of ways to not deliver the joyful news

• Finally tells her that she is to go Friar Laurence's cell to be married to Romeo.

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Act II, Scene 6• Just before the wedding,

Friar Laurence advises Romeo to love moderately.

• Romeo and Juliet tell each other how much they love one another.

• Friar Laurence leads them off to be married.

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Act III, Scene 1• The climax of the play• Benvolio tries to persuade Mercutio

that it's best to stay out of the way of the Capulets and a quarrel

• Mercutio jokingly claims that Benvolio is as much of a quarreler as anyone.

• Tybalt, looking for Romeo, is challenged to a fight by Mercutio

• Tybalt challenges Romeo to fight. Romeo refuses

• Mercutio steps forward and fights Tybalt.

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Act III, Scene 1• As Romeo is trying to stop the fight,

Tybalt gives Mercutio a wound, then runs away. Mercutio dies.

• Romeo is ashamed of himself for letting Mercutio do the fighting

• Romeo kills Tybalt and leaves the scene.

• Benvolio tells the Prince what happened.

• Lady Capulet wants Romeo's life,• The Prince exiles Romeo.

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