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ROMEO AND JULIET

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CONTENTS

Page 3: Put the plot in order

Page 4-5: Key Themes

Page 6: Label the Montagues

Page 7: Label the Capulets

Page 8: Look at the other characters

Page 9-11: Pick 6 key characters and write what you know about them.

Page 12: Which scene is this?

Page 13: Which scene would you use?

Page 14-15: Definitions of literary devices

Page 16: Label the literary device

Page 17: Past paper questions

Page 18: Possible questions

Page 19-22: Fun stuff

Page 23: Final thoughts

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PLOT

Looking at the statements below, can you put the plot in order?

• Romeo marries Juliet.

• Juliet takes a special medicine to prevent her marrying Paris.

• Romeo kills Paris.

• Friar Lawrence explains the whole affair.

• Romeo finds Juliet and thinking she has died, kills himself.

• The Capulets and Montagues have a big public brawl.

• Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo kills Tybalt.

• Romeo meets Juliet and falls in love.

• Juliet then wakes and seeing Romeo also kills herself.

• The Capulets have a party.

• Romeo is banished.

• The letter to Romeo, who is hiding in Mantua, doesn’t reach him. He is only told that Juliet is dead.

• The audience are fore-warned of what will happen in the plot.

• The Prince decides that if there is another public brawl then the culprits will be executed.

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KEY THEMES

A theme is a key idea or topic that runs throughout the play. Fill in the blanks and then give examples of why this is a key theme.

Vi______________e

F________e

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R_______g_______n

L________ and D__________ linked

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CHARACTERS

Label the Montagues

Is there any key info you can write about them?

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CHARACTERS

Label the Capulets

Is there any key info you can write about them?

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CHARACTERS

Label the other characters

What are the roles of these minor characters?

• Apothecary

• Friar John

• Sampson and Gregory (from the house of Capulet)

• Abram (from the house of Montague)

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Choose any character.

Label information about them on the outline.

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Choose any character. Label information about

them on the outline.

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Choose any character. Label information about

them on the outline.

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WHICH SCENE IS THIS?

Look at the statements below. Which Act and Scene does it belong to?

The scene where Romeo and Juliet go to get married.

The scene where Romeo and Juliet first meet.

The scene where Romeo kills Paris.

The scene that gives an overview of the play.

The scene where Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them.

The scene where the Montague and Capulet servants are fighting.

The scene where Mercutio and Tybalt die.

The scene where Romeo and Juliet talk of marriage on the balcony.

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WHICH SCENES WOULD YOU USE?

Look at the topics below. Name three scenes that you could take quotes from to match this.

The theme of love

The theme of death

The theme of violence

The theme of fate

The theme of tragedy

Juliet’s rebelliousness

Lord Capulet’s role as a father

Foreshadowing of Romeo and Juliet’s death

The use of humour

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LITERARY DEVICES

Write a definition for each of the devices below.

Adjective

Alliteration

Assonance

Consonance

Euphemism

Foreshadowing

Hyperbole

Irony

Juxtaposition

Metaphor

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Onomatopoeia

Oxymoron

Pathetic Fallacy

Personification

Pun

Repetition

Rhetorical Question

Sibilance

Simile

Tripling

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LITERARY DEVICES

Look at the examples from the play and write which literary devices are used in them.

“It is the East and Juliet is the sun.”

“A pair of star-cross’d lovers.”

“O you, The doors of breath.”

“Ask for me to-morrow and you shall find me a grave man.”

“Like a rich jewel in Ethiope’s ear.”

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.”

“I am fortune’s fool.”

“O happy dagger!”

“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.”

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PAST PAPER QUESTIONS

• ‘Mercutio’s main purpose in the play is comic. He offers the audience light relief from the tragedy of the play.’ How do you respond to this view of Mercutio? [30 marks]

• How are ideas about honour presented in Romeo and Juliet? [30 marks]

• How are adults presented in Romeo and Juliet? Refer to two or more of the following characters in your response: The Nurse, The Friar, The Prince, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague, Lady Montague. [30 marks]

• How is conflict presented in Romeo and Juliet? [30 marks]

• ‘Shakespeare presents Romeo as impulsive and Juliet as cautious.’ How do you respond to this view of their relationship? [30 marks]

• In Act 1 Scene 1 Romeo says: “Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.” How far do you think that Shakespeare presents love as being more powerful than hate in the play? [30 marks]

• What do you find interesting about the ways Shakespeare presents female characters in Romeo and Juliet? (30 marks)

• In the prologue Shakespeare describes Romeo and Juliet as “star-crossed lovers”. What is the role of fate in the play? [30 marks]

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POSSIBLE QUESTIONS

• ‘Shakespeare is giving us a warning that love is not romantic and is actually dangerous.’ How do you respond to this view of love and of the play? [30 marks]

• ‘The play is a tragedy not a romance.’ How do you respond to this view of the play? [30 marks]

• How is Lord Capulet presented as a father in the play? [30 marks]

• How is Romeo presented as a lover in the play? [30 marks]

• How is Juliet presented as a rebellious female in the play? [30 marks]

• How does Shakespeare use the Nurse to present Romeo and Juliet’s love as foolish? [30 marks]

• ‘Every character has to take some responsibility for the outcome of the play.’ How do you respond to this statement and who do you think is to blame for the ending of the play? [30 marks]

• In Act 2, scene 2, Romeo describes Juliet as a ‘holy shrine’. How does Shakespeare use religion in the play to show Romeo and Juliet’s love? [30 marks]

• ‘Tybalt is to blame for the current feud between the families.’ How do you respond to this statement? How do other characters in the play behave? [30 marks]

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FUN STUFF

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Across

1. Enemy of the Capulets (8) 3. "In sadness cousin, I do love a woman" Who is this

woman? (8) 4. Who says: "Speak again bright angel" (5) 5. "Do you bite your .... at us sir?" (5) 10. "I would the fool were married to her ..." (5) 11. Who provides Romeo with "mortal drugs" (10) 13. Juliet's parents are Lord and Lady... (7) 14. Who says: "My only love sprang from my only hate"

(6) 16. She is the Fairie's Midwife (5,3) 18. Romeo's cousin (8) 19. What has broken to "new mutiny"? (7,6) 20. Romeo declares "I defy you ..." (5) 21. According to Juliet what kind of walls are "high and

hard to climb" (7)

Down 1. Murdered by Tybalt (8) 2. Tybalt hates the word (5) 6. Where do we lay our scene? (4,6) 7. Who gives Juliet the "borrowed likeness of shrunk

death"? (5, 8) 8. Where is Romeo banished to? (6) 9. In what kind of grove has Romeo been seen "so

early walking"? (8) 12. Tybalt's nickname (6,2,4) 15. Prince Escales declares "All are ...." (8) 17. "That with which we call a ... would smell as sweet"

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FUN STUFF

Match the word to the definition.

Dignity

Mutiny

Civil

Fatal

Loins

Two foes

Star-cross’d

Misadventured

Death-mark’d

Nought

Toil

Violence

Unfortunate

Just above the pelvis

Enemies

Nothing

Nobility

Ill-fated

Doomed to death

Civilians

Causing death

Hard-work

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What characters do the pictures represent?

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FUN STUFF

Who said that?

“Therefore I will push Montague's men from the wall and thrust his maids to the wall."

"Let two summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."

"Enough of this. I pray thee hold thy peace."

"...A villain, that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity of this night."

"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out."

"Alas, poor Romeo, he already dead: stabbed with a white wench's black eye..."

"I am aweary, give me a leave awhile.”

"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch."

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

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FINAL THOUGHTS