ROMEO AND JULIET

REVIEW AND TEST PREP

FINAL TEST ON ROMEO & JULIET IS TOMORROW.

Important Topics to Review– Significance of the Prologue– Meaning of the Prologue/Modern Day Translation– Rhyme Schemes (covering today)– William Shakespeare’s rhyming pattern (covering today)– Mood of various scenes/excerpts– Elizabethan English to Modern Day Translation– Imagery– Difference between soliloquy and an aside– Monologue– Stage directions– Turning Point/Climax– Star-Crossed Lovers

End Line Rhyme SchemeEnd line rhyming refers to a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verse.

Example:

Roses are red (red gets "A" as its designation)Violets are blue (blue gets "B" because it does not rhyme with red) End rhyme scheme is fun (fun gets "C" because it doesn't rhyme with red or blue)And so are you! (you gets "B" because it rhymes with blue)

So, the end rhyme scheme is: ABCB

Rhyming Scheme in the Prologue• Look at the end of each line in the Prologue to

determine the Rhyming Scheme.

About the Rhyming Scheme in the Prologue…

• The first rhyming line may be called A and the second B, until the pattern ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is completed. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare presents the Prologue as a sonnet in order to point to the play's themes of love and the feud because sonnets were often used to address the subject of love in conflict.

William Shakespeare’s Rhyming Schemes…

• Most of Shakespeare’s plays were composed using blank verse, although there are passages in all the plays that deviate from the norm and are composed of other forms of poetry and/or simple prose.

• Blank verse is verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter (iambic pentameter will not be on the test).

Quick Review…

• Dialogue: conversations of characters onstage• Monologue: long speech given by one

character to others• Soliloquy: speech by a character alone onstage

to himself or herself or to the audience• Asides: remarks made to the audience or to

one character; the other characters onstage do not hear an aside