English I-P: Romeo and Juliet

Semester Final

Directions: Take your time and respond to each task of the test. You must write all of your answers on the test itself.

ELEMENTS OF FICTION Match the description from the word-bank to the appropriate element of fiction for Romeo and Juliet.

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a.theme b. dynamic c.love conquers d. 14th Century e. setting f. plot g. characterization h. Verona, Italy i. Romeo and Juliet j. protagonist k. narration l. 3rd person point of view m. antagonist n. star crossed lovers try to find love in the midst of an ancientfeud o. Got water? p. round and dynamic q.hate, bloodshed, and rivalry r. character vs. society

LITERARY TERMSFor the following passages, indicate the correct literary term (simile,oxymoron,personification,metaphor, dramatic irony, or verbal irony) by writing the answer by the correct number. You may use an answer only once. Then, on the back of this page, briefly explain why the answer is that particular figure of speech, literary devise, and, where necessary, what it compares.

1. ______Romeo’s suicide when Juliet is still alive but asleep because of Friar

2.Explanation:Laurence’s potion.

3. ______Juliet: Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!/ Dove-Feathered raven, wolvish-

4. Explanation: ravening lamb.

5. ______Lord Capulet:Death lies on her like an untimely frost

6.Explanation: Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

7. ______Mercutio: Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

8.Explanation:

9. ______Romeo: Death that has sucked the honey of thy breath,/ Hath no power upon

10.Explanation:thy beauty./ Thou art not conquered; beauty ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,/ And death’s pale flag is not advanced here.

11. ______Romeo:My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

12.Explanation:To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

DRAMATIC STRUCTURE Label each of the five aspects of dramatic structure using numbers 1 through 5. Then, for numbers 6 through 15, match the major plot developments to the dramatic structure. There are two plot developments per each aspect of dramatic structure.

  1. Romeo slays Tybalt
  2. Juliet fears she will awake alone the the Capulet tomb and go insane
  3. Romeo falls instantly in love with Juliet
  4. Romeo is exiled to Mantua
  5. Friar Laurence explains his role in Romeo and Juliet’s marriage and suicide
  6. Romeo and Juliet get married
  7. Juliet’s parents believe she is dead, but she is really in a death-like sleep
  8. An illiterate servant shows Romeo the guest list to the Capulet’s party
  9. Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, ultimately ending their families’ feud
  10. Romeo gives the nurse a letter to give to Juliet about when and where they will be married

1. 2. 3.4. 5.

6. 8. 10. 12. 14.

7. 9. 11. 13. 15.

Plot Developments

VENN DIAGRAMUsing the Venn Diagram below, compare and contrast the actions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and Franco Zefferelli’s movie Romeo and Juliet. Use the word bank below to match the characteristics to the appropriate area of the Venn Diagram.

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7. differences

Shakespeare’sZefferelli’s

Romeo and Juliet 2. 8. 5. Romeo and Juliet

similarities

3. 9. 6. differences

Answer Bank

a.Romeo is exiled to Mantua b.Paris dies c.Romeo gets poison from an apothecary d. Romeo tries to commit suicide e.Juliet fears Friar Laurence may poison her f.Lady Montague lives g.Tybalt initially walks away from the confrontation with Romeo h. Friar John is quarantined i.Lord Capulet arranges for Paris to marry Juliet

CHARACTERIZATIONOn your answer sheet, indicate whether the characterization for each character from Romeo and Juliet is flat, round, dynamic, or static. You may use a method of characterization more than once.

METHODS OF CHARACTERIZATION

1.JulietFlatA character who has one or two sides,

representing one or two traits—often

a stereotype

2.BenvolioRoundA character who is complex and has many sides or traits with unpredictable behavior and a fully developed personality

3. TybaltDynamicA character who experiences an essential change in personality or attitude

4.MercutioStaticA character who does not change or

develop beyond the way in which she

or he is first presented

POETRY For the poem below, respond to each question on the right.

If I profane with my unworthiest hand1. Indicate the poem’s iambic

This holy shire, the gentle fine is this,pentameter in the second verse.

My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.2. Identify the type of poem:

Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,

Which mannerly devotion shows in this;3. Indicate the poem’s rhyme scheme

For saints have hands that pilgrims hands do touch,

And palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss.4. What poetic device ends the last

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?two verses of the poem?

Aye, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Oh them, dear saint, let lips do what hand do.5. What is it called when a verse of

They pray. Grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.poetry is ten syllables in length

Saints do not move, though grant for prayer’s sake.with and unstressed, stressed

Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.syllable pattern?

SOCIOGRAM Determine whose name belongs in the rectangles by observing the descriptions leading from one box to the next. Characterizations are based on the protagonist and antagonists in the play.

1.villain, disrespectful, 2.

scornful, unbearable,

and arrogant

verbose, moody, traitor,

funny, a poor sword fighter,

incredulous, but a good sport

intolerant, combative,

loyal, skilled swordsman,gentleman, superios swordsman

and a fiery tempercourageous, quick to temper, loyal,

and confrontational

3.

honarable, loyal, steadfast,

dearest cousin, trustworth,best friend, courteous,

honarable, strong, loyal, and a gentleman,

and gallant

good friend, dedicated, caring,

compassionate, and humorous

gentle, innocent, pure,

4.trustworthy, self-assured 5.

and compassionate

FORESHADOWING For the following exceprts, match the foreshadowed text with the character and the event that was foreshadowed.

1. “Violent delights have violent ends.”3. Name of Character

2. Event Foreshadowed: ______

______

4. “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire5. Name of Character:

The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,

And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl

6. Event Foreshadowed:______

______

7. “I have no joy of this contract tonight.8. Name of Character:

It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden:

Too like the lightening. . .”

9. Event Foreshadowed:______

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