| 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 |
Literary Terms Define each term and provide examples from the play of the following terms:
double entrende
imagery
irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
monologue
oxymoron
personification
soliloquy
Questions Answer the questions according to the developments in the play
Scene 1:
1. What does Mercutio say about “blind love”?
Scene 2:
2. When Juliet appears on her balcony, what does Romeo compare her to?
3. Unaware of his presence, what does Juliet ask Romeo to say?
4. In a sentence or two, explain what Juliet says about names.
5. Why is Juliet embarrassed?
6. Juliet is going to send someone to Romeo on the following day for what purpose?
Scene 3:
7. What has friar Laurence been out gathering in his basket?
8. When Friar Laurence sees Romeo, what comment does Friar Laurence make about seeing Romeo so early in the morning?
9. What does Friar Laurence mean when he says to Romeo, “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes?
10. Friar Laurence agrees to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet for what reason?
Scene 4:
11. What is the nurse saying to Romeo in lines 157 – 163?
12. How is Juliet to arrange to meet Romeo?
Scene 5:
13. How is the nurse behaving that is frustrating to Juliet?
Scene 6:
14. What does Friar Laurence mean when he says, “Therefore, love moderately;
Quotes Indicate who is expressing the indicated quote, what scene the quote is from and the significance of the quote according to the play.
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
“The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; What is her burying grave, that is her womb; And from her womb of divers kind.”
“Within the infant rind of this weak flower, poison hath residence and medicine power.”
“Young men’s hearts then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”
“Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say “Good night” till it be morrow.”