9th English Final Review

R & J vocab: to intervene on behalf of another

Identify lit device: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep."

Which character is dynamic?

Where was Shakespeare born?

Which pair of characters can be considered character foils?

Use of a concrete object to represent an abstract or unfamiliar concept

R & J vocab: to pretend to be affected by a feeling or injury

R & J vocab: to regard as being of little worth or value; belittle

Which character is the funny friend who likes to joke instead of be serious?

A short, two-word statement that contradicts itself.

The author's emotional attitude toward the subject matter.

Shakespeare and his group built a theater called ________________?

The conscious re-use of a sound, word, phrase, image, or other element.

A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".

Vocabulary list: unwilling or unable to believe something; unbelievable 

Vocabulary list: having no compassion or pity for others

Literary Device: "The earth hath swallowed all of my hopes but she."

Identify the speaker: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"

A direct comparison of two unlike things.

Who is NOT dead at the end of the play?

When the audience knows of R & J's wedding but Tybalt doesn't, that is an example of what?

Extreme exaggeration and overstatements for effect.

Identify the speaker: "These violent delights have violent ends."

Literary Device: "She hath Dian's wit" (Diana is a Greek goddess of chastity.)

The quarrel between the family provides the plot element called __________?

A sonnet includes all of the following EXCEPT:

Who is "wooing" Juliet and hoping to marry her on a Thursday morning?

Which is a flat character?

To give an inanimate object human-like qualities

When was is said is NOT what is meant.

In literature, a reference to a person, place, or event that should be common knowledge.

Literary Device: We know Romeo & Juliet are married, but their families don't.

R & J vocab: a passion expression of grief or sorrow

Identify the speaker: "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Who says, "Oh, I am Fortune's fool!"

Vocabulary list: too powerful to be defeated or overcome

Literary Device: "There is no world beyond Verona's walls but...hell itself."

The climax of the play is ________________?

Who says, "A plague a both your houses!"

Vocabulary List: open to more than one interpretation; unclear; having double meaning 

R & J vocab: to overwhelm someone with things to be dealt with; to flood

What type of play is Romeo and Juliet?

R & J vocab: to prevent someone from doing something

Vocabulary list: excessive pride in one's own appearance or achievements

Vocabulary list: not sufficiently strict, severe, or careful

Act I of all Shakespeare plays is known as ________________?

When does Lord Capulet call Juliet "mistress minion" and "tallow face"?

R & J vocab: to scold or rebuke

R & J vocab: warm and friendly

ID lit term: "Some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date."

Which character is known as the peacemaker?

Identify the lit device: "Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon."

R & J vocab: engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

Who says, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Vocabulary definition: inborn; natural

Which character is short-tempered and "fiery"?

R & J vocab: bending and moving easily and gracefully; flexible

R & J vocab: deadly, fatal, lethal

Vocabulary definition: to speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.

All of the references to stars and the heavens symbolize _____________?

Vocabulary definition: a load, especially a heavy one.

"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health..." are examples of what?

Literary Device: "What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east & Juliet is the sun."