Midterm Review Shakespeare and Elizabethan Age 1. What are the three types of plays that William Shakespeare wrote? 2. What was Shakespeare s theater called? 3. What was Shakespeare s company called? 4. Where did the poor members of the audience watch the play? What were these people called? Know the definition of the following: 5. Soliloquy 6. Aside 7. Prologue 8. Chorus Romeo and Juliet You ll need to know what characters are Capulets, what characters are Montagues, and what characters are from the royal family: 9. Romeo 10. Juliet 11. Prince Escalus 12. Tybalt 13. Count Pairs 14. Nurse 15. Mercutio 16. Benvolio 17. What type of play is Romeo and Juliet? 18. What is the setting of the play? 19. What event does the prologue in Act 1 foreshadow? 20. What does it mean to bite your thumb? 21. What does the Prince say is the punishment for fighting in the street? 22. Who is Romeo madly in love with at the beginning of the play? Why don t they want to be with him? 23. Who asks Lord Capulet for his daughters hand in marriage? 24. What are Lord Capulets reasons for not want his daughter to get married? Page 1 of 8
25. What are Lady Capulet s reasons for wanting her daughter to get married? 26. Who recognizes Romeo at the party? How does he recognize Romeo? How does he react? 27. How does Lord Capulet react to Romeo being at the Capulet party? Act 2 28. When Romeo climbs the wall into Juliet s balcony, what does he compare her to? 29. According to Romeo who is jealous of Juliet s beauty? This is an example of what type of poetry device? 30. What does Juliet mean when she says, O, be some other name! What s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet? 31. Why does Juliet tell Romeo not to, Swear by the moon? 32. Why does Friar Laurence initially question Romeo s love for Juliet? 33. Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet? 34. Before Romeo and Juliet get married Friar Laurence says, These violent delights have violent ends/and in their triumph kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness/and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so, too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. What is he saying? Act 3 35. What event does Benvolio foreshadow when he says, Good Mercutio, let s retire. The day is hot the Capulet s abroad, and, if we meet we shall not scrape a brawl. 36. Why is Tybalt upset and looking for Romeo? 37. Why does Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt? 38. Why does Romeo s behavior anger Mercutio? 39. Who kills Mercutio? 40. Who does Mercutio blame for his injuries? Page 2 of 8
41. What are three examples of Mercutio keeping his wit? a. b. c. 42. What does, A plague o both your houses mean? 43. Who kills Tybalt? 44. What is Romeo s punishment from the Prince? 45. What symbol of her love does Juliet send Romeo after she s heard he s killed Tybalt? 46. Why would Romeo prefer death over exile? 47. What three reasons does Friar Laurence give to convince Romeo to be happy about his circumstances? a. b. c. 48. Friar Laurence thinks that once he tells the Prince about Romeo and Juliet being married, the Prince will have to do what to Romeo? 49. Why does Capulet want Paris to marry his daughter? 50. Juliet says what in order to mislead her mother? 51. What is Capulet s reaction to his daughter s response about marrying Paris? ACT 4 52. What does Juliet refuse to say to Paris? 53. Why does Friar Laurence believe Juliet will go along with his plan to drink the potion? 54. What are the effects of the potion and how long will effects of the potion last? 55. What day is the wedding to be on? 56. What doubts/fears does Juliet have about taking the potion? Page 3 of 8
57. When Lord Capulet says, Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir; this is an example of what poetry device? Act 5 58. Why does Friar Laurence s letter not get to Romeo? 59. Who tells Romeo about Juliet s death. 60. Who does Romeo go to for the poison? How does he convince him to sell it to him? 61. Who doesn t give Romeo Friar Laurence s letter? 62. What does Romeo give to Balthasar to give to his father? 63. Why does Paris want Romeo to die? 64. What does Romeo say to Tybalt s body? 65. What is Romeo s last words? 66. How does Juliet kill herself? 67. Who else dies as a result of the tragedies? 68. What does Prince Escalus mean in lines See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! How is he stating the irony of the situation? 69. What does each of the families do to honor their each other s child? Know the following quotes and who says them and what they mean: 70. If ever you disturb our streets again/your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace Act 1 Sc. 1 71. This is a Montague, our foe/a villain that is higher come spite/to scorn at our solemnity this night. Act 1 Sc. 5 72. If love be rough with you, be rough with love/prick love for pricking and your heart beat love down. Act 1. Sc. 4 73. Wisely and slow they stumble that run fast. Act 2. Sc. 3 Page 4 of 8
74. What she bid me say, I will keep to myself; but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say; for the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing. Act 2. Sc. 4 75. These violent delights have violent ends/and in their triumph kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness/and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. Act 2. Sc. 6 76. O, be some other name! What s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Act 2. Sc. 2 77. Tybalt the reason that I have to love thee/doth much excuse the appertaining rage/to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Act 3. Sc. 1 78. Help me into some house, or I shall faint. A plague o both your houses! They have made worms meat of me. I have it, and soundly too. Your houses! Act 3. Sc. 1 79. I am fortune s fool! Act 3. Sc. 1 80. Immediately we do exile him hence. I have an interest in your hate s procedding, My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; but I ll amerce you with so strong a fine that you shall all repent the loss of mine/ I will be deaf to pleading and excuses; Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses. Therefore use none. Act 3 Sc. 1 81. Is set a fire by thine own ignorance, and thou dismembered with thine own defense. What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead. There are thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, but though slowest Tybalt. There art thou happy. The laws, that threatened death, becomes thy friend and turns to exile. There art thou happy. Act 3. Sc. 4 Page 5 of 8
82. I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve for sweet discourses in our time to come. Act 3. Sc. 5 83. Thursday be near; lay hand on heart, advise: 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 ne er acknowledge thee. Act 3. Sc. 5 84. I pray thee leave me to myself tonight; for I have need of many orisons/to move the heavens to smile upon my state/which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. Act 4. Sc. 3 85. Most miserable hour that e er time saw/in lasting labor of his pilgrimage! But one, poor one, one poor and loving child, but one thing to rejoice and solace in, and cruel Death hath catched it from my sight! Act 4 Sc. 5 86. I dreamnt my lady came and found me dead/and breathed such life with kisses in my lips/that I revived and was an emperor/ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed/when but love s shadows are so rich in joy! Act 5. Sc 1 87. This is thy sheath; there rust, O happy dagger! Act 5 Sc. 3 88. Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! Act 5 Sc. 3 89. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; some shall be pardoned, and some punished; for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Act 5 Sc. 3 Elements of Literature and Literary Devices Midterm Review Know the definition of the following terms and how to identify them: 1. Setting- 2. Exposition- Page 6 of 8
3. Rising Action- 4. Climax- 5. Falling Action- 6. Resolution- 7. Theme- 8. Protagonist- 9. Antagonist- 10. Dynamic Character- 11. Static Character- 12. Round Character- 13. Flat Character- 14. Point of View- 15. 1 st Person POV- 16. 2 nd Person POV- 17. 3 rd Person Objective POV- 18. 3 rd Person Limited POV- 19. 3 rd Person Omniscient POV- 20. Direct Characterization- 21. Indirect Characterization- 22. Character vs. Character- 23. Character vs. Society- 24. Character vs. Self- 25. Character vs. Nature- 26. Internal Conflict- 27. External Conflict- 28. Verbal Irony- 29. Situational Irony- 30. Dramatic Irony- 31. Foreshadowing- 32. Flashback- Be able to label the following diagram as well as the definition that fits each plot point. Page 7 of 8
Poetry Know the definition of the following terms and how to identify them in a poem 32. Simile Definition: 33. Personification Definition: 34. Metaphor Definition: 35. Alliteration Definition: 36. Hyperbole Definition: 37. Onomatopoeia Definition: 38. Oxymoron Definition: 39. Stanza Definition: Know the different types of poems, along with their rules (rhyme scheme, syllables, etc.) 40. Rhyming Couplet 41. Haiku 42. Limerick 43. Free Verse Page 8 of 8