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Figurative Language in Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET
TERM DEFINITION OF TERMEXAMPLE AND PAGE # in R&J
inverted sentence
any sentence in which the normal word order is reversed, with the verb coming before the subject
oxymoron connecting two words with opposite meanings
metaphora comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
pun a phrase that uses words that sound the same in a way that gives them a funny effect
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Figurative Language in Shakespeare’s ROMEO AND JULIET
TERM DEFINITION OF TERMEXAMPLE AND PAGE # in R&J
foreshadowing
hints and clues that tip a reader off as to what will come later in the story
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i
Two Capulet servants provoke a fight with a servant from the house of Montague. Benvolio, Romeo's cousin, tries to stop the scuffle and asks Tybalt, a nephew of the Capulets, for help. Tybalt, however, antagonizes the situation until it is an allout brawl. Prince Escalus, ruler of Verona, appears and threatens the life of anyone involved in any future MontagueCapulet fights.
Romeo's parents encounter Benvolio and ask if he has seen Romeo. Benvolio discusses Romeo's melancholy behavior, since the Montague's son has been sick with unrequited love for the fair Rosaline. Romeo appears and asks Benvolio for help, but his cousin advises him, instead, to consider the beauty of other girls. Romeo is resistant to the suggestion and does not want to forget Rosaline.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i
inverted sentence: any sentence in which the normal word order is reversed, with the verb coming before the subject
example: In that barn live four horses.
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Characterize Tybalt and Benvolio. Use the laguage of the text to support your answers.
(page 28)Tybalt
Benvolio
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i
(page 28)
BENVOLIO Part, fools!Put up your swords; you know not what you do.Beats down their swordsEnter TYBALTTYBALT What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.BENVOLIO I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,Or manage it to part these men with me.TYBALT What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:Have at thee, coward!
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Why is the prince so upset?
What is his warning to the citizens?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i(page 30)
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,Profaners of this neighbourstained steel,Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts,That quench the fire of your pernicious rageWith purple fountains issuing from your veins,On pain of torture, from those bloody handsThrow your mistemper'd weapons to the ground,And hear the sentence of your moved prince.Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our streets,And made Verona's ancient citizensCast by their grave beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans, in hands as old,Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd hate:If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.For this time, all the rest depart away:You Capulet; shall go along with me:And, Montague, come you this afternoon,To know our further pleasure in this case,To old Freetown, our common judgmentplace.Once more, on pain of death, all men depart.
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Why are Romeo's parents concerned about him?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i
(pages 32 & 34)
MONTAGUE Many a morning hath he there been seen,With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;But all so soon as the allcheering sunShould in the furthest east begin to drawThe shady curtains from Aurora's bed,Away from the light steals home my heavy son,And private in his chamber pens himself,Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight outAnd makes himself an artificial night:Black and portentous must this humour prove,Unless good counsel may the cause remove.BENVOLIO My noble uncle, do you know the cause?MONTAGUE I neither know it nor can learn of him.BENVOLIO Have you importuned him by any means?MONTAGUE Both by myself and many other friends:But he, his own affections' counsellor,Is to himselfI will not say how trueBut to himself so secret and so close,So far from sounding and discovery,As is the bud bit with an envious worm,Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air,Or dedicate his beauty to the sun.Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow.We would as willingly give cure as know.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iWhat is an Oxymoron?
oxymoron: connecting two words with opposite meanings
HOW and WHY does Romeo use oxymorons in his language?What does this reveal about his character?
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How does Romeo describe love?
What does this reveal about his character?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i(page 36)
ROMEO Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing, of nothing first create!O heavy lightness! serious vanity!Misshapen chaos of wellseeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,sick health!Stillwaking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.Dost thou not laugh?BENVOLIO No, coz, I rather weep.ROMEO Good heart, at what?BENVOLIO At thy good heart's oppression.ROMEO Why, such is love's transgression.Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prestWith more of thine: this love that thou hast shownDoth add more grief to too much of mine own.Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:What is it else? a madness most discreet,A choking gall and a preserving sweet.Farewell, my coz.
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What is Benvolio's advice to Romeo?
How does Romeo react to this advice?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i(pages 38 & 40)
BENVOLIO Be ruled by me, forget to think of her.ROMEO O, teach me how I should forget to think.BENVOLIO By giving liberty unto thine eyes;Examine other beauties.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene i
metaphor: a comparison of two unlike things without using the words "like" or "as"
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iiCount Paris, a cousin to the Prince, asks Lord Capulet for Juliet's hand. Capulet is evasive and thinks his daughter too young for marriage. He also feels that Juliet herself must approve of Paris. To arrange a meeting between the two, Capulet invites Paris to a masquerade ball to be held at his home that same night where both young people will meet and appraise each other.
An illiterate servant from the Capulet household is sent to deliver party invitations for the Capulet ball. He cannot read and when he meets Benvolio and Romeo on the street, he asks them to please help him read the guest list. They discover Roasaline's name among the guests. Benvolio encourages Romeo to "crash" the party with him so that Romeo may find another beautiful girl to love. Romeo agrees but only because he expects to see Rosaline.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene ii
According to Capulet, how old is his daughter?
What is Capulet's answer to Paris' request to marry Juliet?
How does Romeo find out about the Capulet party?
(page 40)
PARIS Of honourable reckoning are you both;And pity 'tis you lived at odds so long.But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?CAPULET But saying o'er what I have said before:My child is yet a stranger in the world;She hath not seen the change of fourteen years,Let two more summers wither in their pride,Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.PARIS Younger than she are happy mothers made.
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iii
Lady Capulet talks to Juliet of Paris's proposal. Juliet is not interested in marriage but is graciously willing to meet and speak with the young man. Her faithful Nurse, upon hearing that the distinguished Count Paris is the prospective groom, agrees with Juliet's mother and approves the union.
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Describe the Nurse in 3 adjectives.
What does Lady Capulet think about Paris' request to marry Juliet?
What does the Nurse think about Paris' request to marry Juliet?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iii
(pages 4854)
(1:30)
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
What is a Pun?How and Why does Shakespeare use puns?
PUN: a phrase that uses words that sound the same in a way that gives them a funny effect
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Examples of puns: (forgive me, these are corny!)
Have you heard about that online origami store? It folded. If you believe restaurants always overcook steaks, then you probably order them rarely.
The student was an aggressive learner he hit the books.
The coffee tasted like mud because it was ground a couple of minutes ago.
The fence builders were upset with their working conditions, so they started to picket.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio make their way to the Capulet party wearing masks and costumes. Mercutio is in very high spirits and entertains his friends as he delivers his witty Queen Mab speech which affirms the superficiality of love and other human foolishness. Romeo is not amused. Instead, he feels a grave foreboding as a result of their boldness in attending the party.
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Review: What's a pun?(page 60)
ROMEO: I dreamt a dream tonight.
MERCUTIO: And so did I.
ROMEO: Well, what was yours?
MERCUTIO: That dreamers often lie.
ROMEO: In bed asleep, while they do dream things true.
lie: be in or assume a horizontal resting position
lie: to tell an untruth
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
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foreshadowing: hints and clues that tip a reader off as to what will come later in the story
Find an example of foreshadowing on page 64.
What might this passage foreshadow?
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene iv
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William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Act I Scene vLord Capulet, the genial host, welcomes his guests. Romeo sees Juliet and falls hopelessly in love. Asking a servant the name of the young beauty, he is overheard by her cousin Tybalt, who recognizes his voice as an enemy Montague. Tybalt informs Lord Capulet that he is prepared to fight Romeo at that very moment, but Capulet defends Romeo as a "virtuous youth" and restrains Tybalt harshly.
Romeo and Juliet, though still strangers, speak, and each responds to the other with sudden, overwhelming passion. Later, when they part, they learn the devastating news that they are the children of feuding families.
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If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready standTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,Which mannerly devotion shows in this;For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.
Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take.
ROMEO
JULIET
ROMEO
ROMEO
ROMEO
JULIET
JULIET
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