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Act I
Exposition
Where?
When?
Who are the major players?
What is the situation?
Epithets
Name five from Act I. Identify page and line
number.
Example: My noble uncle (page 812, line 139)
Figurative language—identify page, line/Try
page 820, and 814.
Example:
Metaphor -- My lips two blushing pilgrims, ready
stand (page 828, line 94)
MetaphorAllusion-
Insults-List four
Gregory calls Samson a “weak slave.“ Act I, scene
i
Then, Benvolio chides those who wish to fight
when he commands, “Part, fools!”
Write Romeo’s oxymoronic description of love.
Write an example of antithesis from the same passage.
That’s
That’s
Punny!
Dreamers often lie. – Mercutio
You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I
have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground
I cannot move.--Romeo
Aside and Monologue
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdnw5yL
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• Fun figurative language video clip:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pxfifB
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Characterization
of Tybalt
1. Remember that authors describe their
characters in several ways, called
_______________. There are five ways to
accimplish this. Name them, using the acronym
STEAL.
2. What methods does Shakespeare utilize to
characterize Tybalt? Write five lines of textual
evidence from page 826-828 to describe him.
Words to Learn
1. Adversary
2. Fray
3. Soft
4. Banish
5. Augment (ing)
6. Shrift
7. Rest you merry
Iambic pentameter
Copy and divide the following lines into iambs and mark the
unstressed and stressed syllables. Then say the lines
poetically to a neighbor.
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me
That I must love a loathed enemy. --Juliet
Fill in the blank-Act I, scene 3,4
Mercutio says:
True, I talk of ________;
Which are the children of an ______ ______.
Dreamers often _____.
O, then I see ________ ________has been with you.
Fill in the blank, Act Iscenes 1-3
Prince:
__________ subjects, enemies to _______...
_______civil brawls, bred of an airy word
By thee, old _________, and ___________,
Have ________disturbed the quiet of our__________....
If ever you __________ our streets ________,
Y_______ _________ shall ______ the forfeit of the
________.
Who said it? scenes 1-4
I’ll pay that doctrine or die in debt. ____________
Younger than she are happy mothers made.____________
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. ___________
But woo her gentle Paris, get her heart;
My will to her consent is but a part.________________
I fear too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars. ____________
Who said it? scene 5
O, she doth teach the torches to burn
bright!__________
You kiss by the book. ___________
I tell you, he that can lay hold of her
Shall have the chinks! ______________
This, by his voice should be a Montague. Fetch my
rapier, boy. _________
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night. ___________