Romeo and Juliet
Pre-AP English I Final
PART ONE - Identify the speakers of the following lines. Then, explain the meaning of the lines. (Who/What are they talking to/about?)
1. "Go ask his name - If he be married
My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
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2."0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!"
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3. "Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.
'A bears him like a portly gentleman,
And to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well governed youth."
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4. "What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
No arm, nor face, nor any other part
belonging to a man. 0, be some other name!"
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5. "But come, young waverer, come go with me.
In one respect I'll thy assistant be;
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your household's rancor to pure love."
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6. "Help me into some house, Benvolio,
Or I shall faint. A plague of both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,
And soundly too. Your houses!
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7. Let Romeo hence in haste,
Else, when he is found, that hour is his last."
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8. "Come cords, come Nurse, I'll to my wedding bed;
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead."
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9. "An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;
An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets
For by my soul, I'll not acknowledge thee."
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10. "Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone
Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed
And this distilling liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor;"
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11. "0 woe! 0 woeful, woeful woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day!
That ever I did yet behold!"
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12. "Her body sleeps in Capel's monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
0, pardon me for bringing these ill news.
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13. "Come cordial and not poison, go with me
To Juliet's grave; for there I must use thee."
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14. "This is that banished haughty Montague
That murd'red my love's cousin - with which grief
It is supposed the fair creature died -
And here is come to do some villanous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him."
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15. "What's here? A cup closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them..."
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16. "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight!
Grief of my son's exile hath stopped he breath."
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17. "I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale
... and if ought in this
miscarriage by my fault, let my old life
Be sacrificed, some hour before his time,
unto the rigor of severest law.
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18. "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."
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19. " 0 brother Montague, give me thy hand
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.
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PART TWO - Write YES or NO
20. Sampson and Gregory are Montague's servants.
21. Tybalt was known to cause trouble.
22. A foreshadow gives a clue to future events.
23. Juliet slept twenty-four hours after she took the potion.
24. Mercutio was Romeo's cousin.
25. Lord Montague was concerned about Romeo's Love affair with Juliet
26. Friar Laurence married Romeo and Juliet.
27. The nurse knew of Juliet's plan to take the sleeping potion.
28. Benvolio was known as the peacemaker.
29. Escalus is the Prince of Verona.
30. Juliet was to marry Paris on Wednesday instead of Thursday.
31. Romeo fled to Mantua in exile for killing Tybalt.
32. Lammastide is the celebration of the first harvest.
33. Friar John told Romeo of Juliet's death.
34. Paris was a cousin to the Prince.
35. Rosaline was jealous because Romeo Loved Juliet.
36. Lady Capulet kept Juliet's secret about her marriage to Romeo.
37. Lady Montague died of grief over Romeo's exile.
38. Dramatic irony occurs when the character on stage knows something that the audience does not know.
39. Balthazar was Romeo's servant.
40. The nurse helped to arrange the marriage.
41. Juliet finally consented to marry Paris.
42. Benvolio was killed by Tybalt.
43. Juliet's birthday is August 1st.
44. The nurse provided comic relief in the drama.
45. Pais was slain while trying to stop Romeo from killing himself.
46. Mercutio is angry with Romeo's intrusion at the Capulet's ball.
47. The story of Romeo and Juliet is classified as a romantic tragedy.
48. A soliloquy is a speech by a solo character - thinking out loud.
49. Not even the death of their children could bring the families together.
PART THREE
50. List three of Juliet's fears as she was about to take the sleeping potion
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51. Romeo and Juliet has been called a tragedy of fate. List three events that occurred by chance and tell how each influenced events in the drama.
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Part Four - Please put the following events in chronological order.
1. Romeo and Juliet meet.
2. Juliet fakes her death.
3. Romeo’s heart is broken by Rosaline.
4. Juliet stabs herself.
5. Romeo kills Tybalt.
6. Romeo buys a poison.
7. Juliet’s Father threatens to disown Juliet if she does not marry Paris.
8. Juliet’s family gives a feast.
9. Romeo is banished.
10. Romeo and Juliet marry.
53. Pick one word to describe Mercutio and JUSTIFY your answer. (2 points)
54. Pick one word to describe Tybalt and JUSTIFY your answer. (2 points)
55. Pick one word to describe Benvolio and JUSTIFY your answer. (2 points)
56. Retell, IN COMPLETE DETAILS, the entire plan laid out by Friar Lawrence for Juliet. (4 points)
57. Using SPECIFIC DETAILS, how does Mercutio die? (2 points)
58. Mercutio has two specific and opposing reactions to being stabbed, what are they? (2 points)
Who or what?
59. Does Romeo wear to the party?
60. Is Juliet promised to marry (engaged to)?
61. Likes starting fights?
62. Curses both families?
63. Is killed by Romeo’s sword?
64. Is a religious man?
65. Does Friar Laurence give Juliet?
66. Doesn’t Friar John give to Romeo?
67. Is killed by Romeo’s knife?
68. Takes Lord Montague’s hand at the end of the play?
Vocabulary Final
Bonus: Devices
Matching: Add one point for each item answered correctly.
Some terms will be used more than once.
1. PARIS
Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
And therefore have I little talk'd of love;
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
2. CAPULET
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
3. FRIAR LAURENCE
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
4. CAPULET
Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded: I will die,
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.
5. Nurse
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day…
6. Nurse
Honest goodfellows, ah, put up, put up;
For, well you know, this is a pitiful case.
7. Romeo Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead
8. Romeo Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And, in despite, I'll cram thee with more food!
9. Romeo Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
10. Lady Capulet O me! this sight of death is as a bell,
That warns my old age to a sepulchre.
Word Bank
Allusion Pun Personification
Dramatic Irony Simile Metaphor
Repetition