ROMEO AND JULIET REVIEW

Use your sheet to write down your responses

Match the definition with the term

1. DIALOGUE

2. MONOLOGUE

3. SOLILOQUY

4. ASIDE

A. SPOKEN ALONE ON STAGE

B. CONVERSATION BETWEEN 2 +

CHARACTERS

C. A SIDE CONVERSATION

BETWEEN 2 CHARACTERS THAT

NO ONE ELSE HEARS

D. A SINGLE SPEECH ONE

CHARACTER MAKES

UNINTERRUPTED BY OTHER

CHARACTERS ON STAGE

CHOOSE ONE: dialogue/monologue/aside/soliloqu

y Mercutio told everyone about Queen Mab

Romeo and Benvolio talk about Romeo’s love for Rosaline

The Friar talks to himself about poisonous weeds and flowers.

Romeo wonders outside of Juliet’s window whether or not he should tell her he’s under her window listening to her

Tragic Hero

A character who is usually brought down by a tragic flaw and/or FATE

What is Romeo’s Tragic Flaw?

ARCHETYPE

A pattern in literature that we see over and over again

Some examples are: Good vs. Evil, the damsel in distress, the good hero, the funny sidekick

What are some more examples of archetypes?

MATCH THE DEFINITIONS

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

BLANK VERSE

COUPLET

A. 2 LINES OF POETRY THAT

RHYME SIDE BY SIDE

B. UNRHYMED IAMBIC

PENTAMETER

C. METER OF 10

UNSTRESSED/STRESSED

SYLLABLES

TELL WHETHER EACH IS IAMBIC PENTAMETER/COUPLET/BLANK

VERSE OR A COMBINATION MONTAGUE Thou villain Capulet,--Hold me not, let me go. LADY MONTAGUE Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe.

MONTAGUE Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach21?Speak, nephew, were you by when it began?

ROMEO Out of her favour, where I am in love.

MATCH THE IRONIES

DRAMATIC IRONY

SITUATIONAL

IRONY

VERBAL IRONY

A. When a character says

something they don’t mean

B. When the audience knows

something the characters don’t

C. The unexpected happening in a

negative way

Choose one: dramatic/situational/verbal

We know Romeo and Juliet are married but no one else does

Juliet tells her mother that no one breaks her heart like Romeo does

A girl buys a gun to protect herself and is shot with it during a home invasion.

Match the following terms:

IMAGERY

ALLITERATION

FORESHADOWING

A.Repetition of a consonant

sound at the beginning of the

word in words close to each

other

B.Using the 5 senses to create a

word “picture”

C.Hints about what is going to

happen (usually negative)

Match the terms to the examples:imagery, alliteration,

foreshadowing After meeting Romeo, Juliet says, “If he

be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

Romeo says, “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?/ It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

The servant said, “I say silver sound because musicians sound for silver”

MATCH THE TERMS TO THE DEFINITIONS

PUN

HYPERBOLE

FOIL

METAPHOR

A. When two characters are opposites

B. An exaggeration

C. Comparing two things without

“like” or “as”

D. Play on words when a word has two

meanings

Choose the correct word that applies to the example: pun, foils, hyperbole,

metaphor I’m going to die of boredom.

Romeo is a lover and Tybalt is a fighter

Romeo says he is too sore pierced with cupid’s arrows to soar with his wings.

Romeo claims that Juliet is a “snowy dove trooping with crows.”

Match the words with definitions

Personificatio

n

Allusion

oxymoron

A. Referring to something outside the text and assuming your audience knows the story

B. Putting two opposite terms side by side

C. Giving human qualities to a non-human thing

Match examples to the terms:personification, allusion,

oxymoron Juliet says parting is such “sweet sorrow”

Juliet’s dad says that Death has married Juliet and become his son-in-law.

If it keeps raining like that, I’m going to need an ark.