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Date _________ Period _____

Study Guide

Romeo and Juliet

1. Where was William Shakespeare born? _________________

2. What year was Shakespeare born? _______________

3. What is significant about Shakespeares birthday and the day he died?

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4. Approximately how many words did Shakespeare invent? ____________

5. Name three words Shakespeare invented.

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6. What is the name of the dictionary in which new words added to the Englishlanguage are recorded? ___________________________________________

7. What kind of poem is the Prologue toRomeo and Juliet? _____________

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8. What function does the Chorus serve throughoutRomeo and Juliet?

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9. What two things does the Prologue tell us about the ending ofRomeo and Juliet?

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10.Where do Romeo and Juliet first meet?

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11.How many lines does a sonnet have? ______

12.How many syllables are in each line of a sonnet? ______

13.What are the last two rhyming lines of a sonnet called? ______________

14.How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? ______

15.How many sonnets are in Romeo and Juliet? ______

16.What do actors apply to their lines when they read Shakespearean sonnets in a

sing-song way?

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17.Make sure you know which part of sonnet lines to underline when actors speak

sonnets using the answer to #16 (above).

Example: I love to read good books all day and night,

Practice underlining sonnet lines on the following examples:

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

18.Make sure you know how to draw a diagram for an English sonnet. (Found in your

notes, the letters stacked and connected in different ways, showing which linesrhyme together). Draw a sonnet diagram here:

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19.Be familiar with the following dramatic literary terms. (Found in your Holt

Reader on p. 311 and in notes you took in class.) Write the definition of each

below:Play

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Tragedy

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Tragic hero

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Tragic flaw

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__Comedy

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Dialogue

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Monologue

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Soliloquy

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Aside______________________________________

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Props

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Be familiar with the following plot elements and what happens during each in

Romeo and Juliet.Name one event in each act that contributes to the action ofthe play. Also write the literary term we associate with each act, (i.e.

exposition, etc.) Use your completed worksheet to help you with this part.

Act III:

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20. During which act ofRomeo and Julietdoes the play turn from a comedy to a

tragedy?

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21. What happens in the above act that turns the play from a comedy to a tragedy?

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22. Did Elizabethan playwrights use words or scenery, props, and lighting to create

their scenes? ___________________________________________

23.What is Romeos last name __________________ Juliets? __________________

24.Be familiar with the definitions of the following vocabulary words:

* (Look them up in an online dictionary if you need to)

Apothecary Procure

Act I: Act V:

Act II: Act IV:

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Banishment Rapier

Cell Shroud

Nurse Wherefore

Palmer Woo

25.Name at least two themes and one motif fromRomeo and Juliet, and provide an

example from the play that represents that theme.

Theme:_____________________________________

Example from play:

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Theme: _____________________________________

Example from play:

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Motif: ______________________________________

Example from play:

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