Pre-Assessment

Name: _______________
Identify the type of figurative language used:
1. But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. _______ I fear, too early: for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars _______ Poor living corpse, closed in a dead mans tomb! _______ Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move _______ O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? _______ For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night / Whiter than new snow upon a ravens back. _______ These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume _______ Oh, find him! Give this ring to my true knight, / And bid him come to take his last farewell. _______ It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a jewel in rich Ethiope's ear _______

Date ___________

a) Foreshadowing b) Oxymoron c) Personification d) Metaphor e) Simile f) Soliloquy g) Pun

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10. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first created! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / misshapen chaos of wee-seeming forms.

Romeo and Juliet Unit:

plot, figurative language and vocabulary

Match each vocabulary word with its correct definition.

1. apt - ______ 2. beseech ______ 3. carrion - ______ 4. consort ______ 5. dote ______ 6. exile - ______ 7. fickle - ______ 8. haste - ______

A. make amorous advances towards B. likely to change suddenly; unpredictable C. the passionate display of expressing grief D. mental ability, intelligence E. any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) F. to beg or ask for earnestly G. a condition of urgency making it necessary to hurry

9. lamentation - ______ H. reject with contempt 10. plague ______ 11. scorn - ______ 12. vile - ______ 13. villain - ______ 14. wit ______ 15. woo ______ I. the dead and rotting body of an animal J. the act of expelling a person from their native land K. being very appropriate for the situation L. keep company(usually used for romantic affiliations) M. morally reprehensible N. a wicked person; someone who does evil deliberately O. shower with love; show excessive affection for