Romeo & Juliet

LESSON 1

1. Just like a book has chapters, a play has acts and smaller parts called scenes
2. Character foils can bring out the qualities of the contrasting characters.
3. Snowball is idealistic and rallies support from the other animals, while Napoleon uses cruelty
and violence to establish his power.
4. Dialogue advances the action of the play and reveals the characters' thoughts, personalities, and
motivations. It also helps to portray the setting and time period of the drama.
5. The stage directions give the actors, and readers that are reading the play, insight on how they
should portray their lines.
6. Dramatic irony occurs when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters
onstage do not.
7. A comedy is a lighthearted, humorous play that ends happily, while a tragedy is a serious topic
that often ends with the death or downfall of one or more major characters.
8. In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the audience knows that Cesario is really Viola in disguise, but
Orsino and Olivia do not know this. This is a great example of dramatic irony.
9. The tragic hero's flaw is typically the center of the conflict in the play.
10. A tragedy is meant to evoke a feeling of pity or fear in the audience.
11. The opening stage directions state that the characters walk into the Wright’s house.
12. The state of the kitchen is a bother to the ladies who are in the play. They are protective of Mrs.
Wright's housekeeping abilities.
13. Mr. Hale says this because Mrs. Peters remarked that Mrs. Wright was concerned about her
fruit preserves while she was in jail. Mr. Hale thinks that the fruit preserves freezing is an
unimportant matter.
14. Mrs. Hale defends Mrs. Wright when the attorney criticizes the Wrights' messy kitchen. She and
Mrs. Peters sympathize with Mrs. Wright and try to see things from her perspective.
15. The men are condescending toward women and display their belief that women should keep
their homes tidy at all times. They criticize Mrs. Wright's housekeeping ability. They make fun of
Mrs. Wright for worrying about her jars of preserves.
16. They help the reader visualize the scene and understand the characters' personalities. The stage
directions help the reader to see the characters as real people.
17. The play is not silly or lighthearted, like a comedy, and it does not contain a tragic hero, like a
tragedy
LESSON 2

1. Google Search and write down the website as you will need this information ( April 23, 1564)
2. SAME AS 1
3. What is strange about this is that it is also his birthdate.
4. Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway when he was 18 and she was 26.
5. SAME AS 1
6. Shakespeare's plays were enjoyed by audiences that range from the poor to the very wealthy.
King’s men
7. The Globe Theatre burned down, but a replica was built and can be visited today.
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9. Romeo and Juliet was written during the early 1590s and was first published in 1597.
10. He adapted the story from a long narrative poem called The Tragical History of Romeus and
Juliet by Arthur Brooke, who translated the traditional story into English from another language.
11. The father, as the head of the family, usually decided whom his daughter would marry. Children
had little say in the matter, as marriages were formed primarily to increase the family's wealth
or social position.
12. For the most part, Romeo and Juliet is written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic
pentameter.
13. If you were to read a line of iambic pentameter aloud, it would sound something like this: da
DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM / da DUM. In this line, the second syllable of each group is
stressed.The terms are often interchanged. True
14. For the most part, Romeo and Juliet is written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic
pentameter
15. For the most part, Romeo and Juliet is written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic
pentameter.
16. A couplet is two lines of poetry that have end rhyme.
17. An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two contradictory or opposite words to convey
a certain idea.
18. Shakespeare used puns often in his plays. Pay close attention to see if you can identify them.
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