English H: Romeo and Juliet Acts 1-5 Test

Dramatic Poetry

The most complex form of dramatic poetry is the full length verse play in which multiple speakers are given different voices

The language and format of dramatic poetry resemble what?

Poetry

The _____ and dialogue of dramatic poetry do not attempt to duplicate ______.

language, reality

Chorus

A group of characters who summarize the plot and comment on the action for the audience

Monologue

A long, uninterrupted speech made by one character

Aside

Words spoken onstage for the audience, not to be heard by other characters on stage

Prologue

The prologue serves as exposition introducing material before the first scene begins

Sonnet

A highly structured 14 line poem

Shakespeare used what poem form in his plays?

Sonnet

Rhyme scheme of sonnet

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG (rhyming couplet)

5 Act structure

Tragedy

A genre of story in which a hero is brought down by his/her own flaws, usually by ordinary human flaws

Elements of Tragedy

1. Tragedy

2. Tragic hero

3. Reversal (downfall)

4. Hamartia

5. Catharsis

6. Characteristics

7. Purpose

Tragic Hero

The term hero is derived from a Greek word that means a person who faces adversity, or demonstrates courage in the face of danger

When the hero experiences a ______, he becomes a tragic hero.

downfall

Downfall

Descent to a lower position or standing, ruin or failure

_____ refresh to the downfall as the reversal.

Aristotle

The reversal usually occurs in Act _____ and moves towards the ______.

4, denouement

At the downfall point in the play, the hero’s Fortune shifts from _____ to _____.

good, bad

Hammartia

The tragic flaw or error that reverses a protagonist’s fortune from good to bad

Catharsis

A cleansing or purification brought about by great sadness, fear, or piety

One characteristic of a tragic hero is that the tragic hero has a ______ (hamartia) that leads leads to his downfall.

flaw

A tragic hero experiences a reversal of ______ or fortune.

fate

A tragic hero exhibits the trait of _____ often.

hubris

A tragic hero is always ______ and admired, talented and/or ______ character who loses his status.

respected, powerful

The tragic hero’s pain and ______ inspires sadness and pity in the audience.

suffering

The purpose of the tragic hero is to evoke ____, ____, and fear in the audience or reader.

sadness, pity

The purpose of the tragic hero in literature is to provoke an emotional ______ in the audience or reader.

Catharsis

The purpose of the tragic hero in literature is to provide a ____ ______ to the audience or reader.

cautionary tale

Through the tragic hero telling the audience of a cautionary tale makes the audience learn to avoid the ____ ____ which leads to the character’s demise.

tragic flaw

Literary Devices

1. Pun

2. Oxymoron

3. Apostrophe

4. Conceit

5. Allusion

6. Metonymy

7. Synecdoche

Pun

A play on words that have two meanings

Oxymoron

A contradiction that is nevertheless true

Apostrophe

Addressing something/someone dead or inanimate as if it can respond

Conceit

A fanciful metaphor, especially a highly elaborate or extended metaphor in which an unlikely far-fetched, or strained comparison is made between two things

Allusion

A reference to a literary work, mythology, history, or the Bible

An allusion is not _____, but for those who recognize allusions, it offers a _____ ______.

explained, deeper meaning

Metonymy

Substituting the name of an entity with something closely related to it

Example of a metonymy

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Sound Devices

1. End rhyme

2. Rhyme scheme

3. Rhyming couplet

4. Alliteration

5. Consonance

6. Assonance

7. Meter

8. Iambic pentameter

9. Blank verse

Synecdoche

A part of something is used to represent the whole

Example of a synecdoche

That brunette is staring at you. The puppy stole my heart. You have your nose in everybody else’s business.

End rhyme

Rhyme that occurs at the end of the lines as opposed to rhyming words within a line

Rhyme scheme

A set pattern of end rhyme

Shakesperean sonnet

ABABCDCDEFEFGG

Rhyming couplet

Two consecutive lines of end rhyme

A rhyming couplet usually joins a _____ or _____ and brings a scene, _____, sonnet, or _____ to a close.

thought, idea, soliloquy, act

The ____ at the end of a rhyming couplet closes out an act, sonnet, scene, or soliloquy to a close.

GG

Alliteration

Repetition of the initial consonant sound

Example of alliteration

Pout, pair, peal

Consonance

Repetition of the final consonant sound

Example of consonance

Pout, hat, tart

Assonance

Repetition of the vowel sound

Example of assonance

Pout, loud, now

Meter

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a rhythm

Imabic pentameter

Five feet of unstressed followed by stressed syllables (heartbeat)

Example of Iambic Pentameter

I am a pirate with a wooden leg

Blank verse

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Figurative language

1. Synecdoche

2. Metonymy

3. Personification

4. Metaphor

5. Simile

6. Hyperbole

Renaissance

Rebirth

Shakespeare contributed ______ poems to the Renaissance.

30,000

Sonnets are always ____ lines (like prologue) and are used to organize and ____ (cuatrine 4 lines).

14, unify

A rhyming couplet summarizes ______.

speech

“Star crossed lovers”

Fate over what happens to the relationship

In the prologue, we get ______ info.

background

Dramatic irony in the “star crossed lovers’” life

Shakespeare is warning

There’s more references to _____ and _____ than love (juxtaposition) in the ______.

hatred, violence, prologue

London

Very violent when Shakespeare was writing

Monologue is to _____ while a soliloquy is to _____ (alone).

others, yourself

Prose

When a servant speaks to show humbleness

Act 1 is all ______.

exposition

In Act 1, we know what happens when a character is introduced (______).

characterization

Act 1.2 shows _____ characterization of Capulet.

indirect

Capulet is _____ and ______.

protective, adoring

Capulet is a ______ father.

caring

Capulet had _____ feelings about Juliet because he was talking _____ (soliloquy).

genuine, alone

Capulet has ____ to prove.

nothing

Capulet wants to fight the _____, but is soft for _____ (juxtaposition).

Montonogues, Juliet

Lady Capulet is ____, ____, cold and direct.

terse, formal

Lady Capulet likes people to speak ______.

briefly

Lady Capulet is a _____ to the Nurse who is warm and ______.

foil, fuzzy

Lady Capulet is only going to settles with what she _____.

wants

The Nurse is the ____ _____.

comic

The Nurse is a ______ figure.

maternal

Common people (like the Nurse) are ______.

unrefined

The reason the Nurse is the comic relief is because why?

Common people are unrefined and she’s relatable to groundlings

Juliet is young and ______.

innocent

Juliet is relatable because why?

She’s obedient to the wish of marriage (people-pleaser)

Juliet is _____ and obedient.

submissive

“Endart”

Arrows, darts

Cupid is the Roman god of _____.

love

Cupid’s gold arrows cause what?

Love and passion

Cupid’s lead arrows cause what?

Hate and rejection

Rosaline is _____, which is why Romeo is so distrauight about losing her.

chastile (celabate?)

Act 1.5 story arc

During the exposition, Romeo and _____ meet that sparks _____.

Juliet, love

What’s the inciting incident of Romeo and Juliet?

Tybalt gets mad at Romeo when he’s kicked out of the party

During Acts 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5 what are juxtaposed?

Scenes of love and hate

Gut feelings

The gut feelings Romeo and other characters have becomes a motif

A soliloquy is private _____, and reveals internal ______.

thoughts, conflict