Download Romeo and Juliet Final Exam Review 1. Make sure you review the

Romeo and Juliet Final Exam Review
1. Make sure you review the play.
2. Make sure you review your study guides for all 5 acts.
3. Make sure you can define and/or identify examples of literary terms used for this unit.
4. In addition to knowing all of the above, write the correct literary term for each of the following
definitions and examples and write the correct speaker for each of the following quotes.
The literary terms portion of the review sheet is due on Thursday, May 30, 2013, for an accuracy grade
and the quotes are due on Monday, May 31, 2013.
1. Shakespeare wrote most of his poems in this form-a fourteen line poem that is usually written in iambic
pentameter. This form is:
2. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike thins, in which one thing becomes the
other. In The House on Mango Street, Esperanza says, “My name is the Mexican records my father plays
on Sunday mornings when he is shaving.”
3. A character who is used as a contrast to another character. This is an example of:
4. A pair of consecutive lines that rhyme in a poem. Shakespeare’s sonnets always end with one. This
term is:
5. Words that are spoken in a play by a character to the audience or another character but that are not
supposed to be heard by the others on stage. In the first scene of Romeo and Juliet, Sampson says
something to Gregory that Abram doesn’t hear (even though the audience does). This is called:
6. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as.” In The
House on Mango Street, Esperanza describes Cathy’s cars as “Cats asleep like little donuts.” This is an
example of:
7. An introduction of sorts at the beginning of a play or poem. Romeo and Juliet begins with a sonnet that
starts, “Two households, both alike in dignity/ In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…” This sonnet
serves as a:
8. A figure of speech in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. You read
a poem that began, “This poetry gets bored of being alone/ it wants to go outdoors to chew on the
winds…” This is an example of:
9. An unusually long speech in which a character alone onstage expresses his or her thoughts or feelings
aloud. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is alone before drinking the potion. She gives a long speech about
whether or not she should take the potion and what will happen if she does. This is called a:
10. A play or novel that depicts serious and important events in which the main character comes to an
unhappy end. Romeo and Juliet is a famous Shakespeare:
11. Mercutio was famous for his play on words. A play on the multiple meanings of a word, or on two
words that sound alike but have different meanings is called:
12. A pair of contradictory terms. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo describes love as “heavy lightness,”
“serious vanity,” and “cold fire.” This is called:
13. A reference to a well-known place, event, literary work, or work of art. Often writers will title works
or create stories that refer to Bible stories or Greek myths. This is called:
14. A pattern of rhyme in a poem. We express this pattern through letters- AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and
ABCB. This pattern is called
15. A play or novel that is humorous in its treatment of theme and characters. It often has a happy ending.
Though we read Shakespeare’s tragedies in high school, these plays are also quite good. This term is:
Quotes-Who said what? May use more than once or not at all.
Mercutio
Nurse
Romeo
Lord Montague
Friar John
Count Paris
Tybalt
Prince Escalus
Benvolio
Friar Laurence
Apothecary
Balthasar
Lady Capulet
Lord Capulet
Juliet
_________ 1. “Ahh, Queen Mab hath been with you/ she is faeries’ midwife, and she comes in/ A shape
no bigger than an agate stone.”
_________ 2. “If ever you disturb our streets again,/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”
_________ 3. “I think it best you married with the County.”
_________ 4. “By giving liberty unto thine eyes:/Examine other beauties.”
_________ 5. “I tell thee what-get thee to church on Thursday/Or never after look me in the face.”
_________ 6. “You have dancing shoes/With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead”
_________ 7. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”
_________ 8. “I beg for justice/Which though Prince must give/Romeo slew Tybalt/Romeo must not
live.”
_________ 9. “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world-why he’s a man of wax!”
_________ 10. “See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!/O that I were a glove upon that hand!/That I
might touch that cheek!”
_________ 11. “Compare Rosaline’s face with others that I will show/And I will make thee think thy
swan a crow.”
_________ 12. What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
_________ 13. “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name!”
_________ 14. “I’ll to the friar to know his remedy./If all else fail, myself have power to die.”
_________ 15. “A plague on both your houses.”
_________ 16. “I could not send it nor get a messenger/To bring it back to you, so fearful they were of
the infection.”
_________ 17. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.”
_________ 18. “Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then
lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
_________ 19. “These violent delights have violent ends.”
_________ 20. “O happy dagger!”
_________ 21. “For fear of that I still will stay with thee/And never from this palace of dim night/Depart
again. Here, here will I remain/With worms that are thy chambermaids.”
_________ 22. “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford/No better term than this: thou art a villain.”
_________ 23. “You kiss by the book.”
_________ 24. “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
_________ 25. “Thus with a kiss I die.”
_________ 26.“O, I am fortune’s fool!”
_________ 27. “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!/Did ever dragon deep so fair a cave?”
_________ 28. “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,/That heaven finds means to kill your joys with
love!/And I, for winking at your discords too,/Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.”
_________ 29. “Be merciful, say ‘death’;/For exile hath more terror in his look,/Much more than death.
Do not say ‘banishment.’”
_________ 30. “Take thou this vial, while you are in bed/And this distilled liquor drink thou of.
________ 31.“Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,/Hath had no power yet upon thy
beauty./Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks”