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Lord Capulet
Lady Capulet
romeo
Juliet
Lord Montague
Tybalt
Lady Montague
Nurse
Romeo
Peter
Benvolio
Sampson
Balthasar
Gregory
Abram,
House Montague House
An OldCapulet
Man
Prince Escalus
Mercutio
Friar Laurence
Friar John
Count Paris
Others
The characters below are foils. Choose one pair and list their differences and
similarities in the Venn diagram to illustrate their opposite and shared
characteristics.
benvolio
tybalt
both are
a capulet
he is montague
nephew of juliet
nephews of the
is a troublemaker
nephew of romeo main characters
he is a peacemaker
Pun: humorous play on words, usually involving words that sound alike or have
similar meanings (like merry and marry).
GREGORY. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of the collar.
Simile: figure of speech that uses like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
Metaphor: figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things
without using the words like or as.
Iambic pentameter: rhyming poetic meter in which each line has ten syllables
and can be divided into five metric “feet” containing one unstressed and one
stressed syllable within each foot.
Prose: literature that is written in sentences and paragraphs (in other words,
everything that is not poetry)
blank verse
PRINCE. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel—
Will they not hear? What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
80 With purple fountains issuing from your veins!
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground
And hear the sentence of your moved prince.