Romeo and Juliet Act I study Guide

Performance Indicators:

 

P.S ELA-2 Reading Analysis: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

A. Evaluate the relevant themes and synthesize how they are present in the novel in oral and written responses.
B. Interpret the implications of setting and circumstance.
C. Analyze the role of characters in the plot in oral and written responses.
D. Analyze important quotations from the text in oral and written responses.
E. Annotate the text.

P.S ELA-3 Reading Craft and Structure: Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text in which the rhetoric is particularly effective, analyzing how style and content contribute to the power, persuasiveness or beauty of a text.

A. Understand SOAPSTone: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
B. Analyze the plot and/or design of the text, following shifts in time and place.


Literary Terms  Define each term and provide examples from the play of the following literary terms:

aside
blank verse
couplet
epithet
figurative language
foil
foreshadowing
metaphor
simile
iambic meter
iambic pentameter
pun

Questions  Answer the questions according to the developments in the play

Prologue:
1. In what city does this play take place?
2. Why are Romeo and Juliet called “star-cross’d lovers”?
Scene 1:
3. Who is fighting at the beginning of the first scene?
4. Who tries to break up the fighting?
5. What threat does the Prince make to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet?
6. Why is Romeo so sad? Explain.
7. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo?
Scene 2:
7. What does Paris ask about Capulet?
8. What problem does the servant have?
9. What is the name of the woman Romeo loves?
10. What do Romeo and Benvolio decide to do?
Scene 3:
11. How old is Juliet?
12. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about marriage, what is Juliet’s answer?
Scene 4:
13. According to Mercutio, who or what is Queen Mab, and what does she or it do?
14. What does Mercutio say about dreams?
15. What is Romeo’s mood at the end of this scene? Explain.
Scene 5:
16. What does Romeo think of Juliet the first time he sees her?
17. How does Tybalt recognize Romeo?
18. When Tybalt is ready to seize Romeo and throw him out of the party, what does Capulet say to Tybalt?
19. How does Romeo find out Juliet’s last name?
20. How does Juliet find out Romeo’s last name?

Quotes  Indicate who is expressing the indicated quote, what scene the quote is from and the significance of the quote according to the play.

“Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?

“Marry, that marry is the very theme I came to talk of. Tell me daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?.”

“Did my heart love till now? foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

“My only love sprung from my only hate!”