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ROMEO AND JULIET

ROMEO AND JULIET. THEMES. Be able to state a theme related to each topic and be able to give a specific citation from the play to support each theme. Parents and children Revenge Power

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ROMEO AND JULIET

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  1. ROMEO AND JULIET

  2. THEMES

  3. Be able to state a theme related to each topic and be able to give a specific citation from the play to support each theme. • Parents and children • Revenge • Power • Love vs. hate (Is physical attraction necessary for love?) (Is it possible to hate the one you love or love the one you hate?) • Fate (Do humans control their own destiny or are they pawns?) • Duality (death of Romeo and Juliet = life for Verona)

  4. TERMS TO KNOW

  5. Be able to define each literary term, and be able to give a specific citation from the play for each term. THEME - the universal message DRAMATIC FOIL - a character who highlights another character’s traits by providing contrast • Benvolio vs Tybalt - restraint vs temper (pg 773) • Nurse vs Juliet and Lady Capulet = talkative / repetitious vs quiet/saying little (pg 782)

  6. Be able to define each literary term, and be able to give a specific citation from the play for each term. THEME = the universal message • DRAMATIC FOIL = a character who highlights another • character’s traits by providing contrast. • Benvolio vs Tybalt = restraint vs temper (pg 773) • Nurse vs Juliet and Lady Capulet - talkative/repetitious vs • quiet/saying little (pg 782) • Mercutio vs Romeo = good-natured vs moody (pg 785) ARCHETYPE = the first / original “model” ROUND CHARACTER = a character who seems like a real person; a character with many identifiable traits. FLAT CHARCTER = reader knows little about the character

  7. Terms to know FORESHADOWING = hints to upcoming events The CHORUS = a figure or group of figures who comment on A play’s action PROLOGUE = an opening speech that introduces the play’s Main characters, plot, and setting SOLILOQUY = a long speech expressing the thoughts of a character alone on stage ASIDE = ashort speech delivered by an actor to the audience but presumed NOT to be heard by other actors

  8. Terms to know Monologue = along speech by a character - directed to another character/s Metaphor = a figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as if it were something else(Life is a bed of roses.) Simile = a figure of speech in which like or as is used to Compare two basically unlike ideas. (Tybalt is as hot-headed as Mercutio is not a simile. Tybalt is as hot-headed as a rattlesnake is a simile.) Allusion = a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art. Oxymoron = a figure of speech in which contradictory terms are used together in one phrase (jumbo shrimp)

  9. Terms to know Hyperbole = a deliberate exaggeration or overstatement - often used for comic effect (I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.) Pun = the humorous use of two words having the same or similar sounds but different meanings - a play on words Imagery= descriptive or figurative language used to create word pictures for the reader Motif= the underlying theme or element in a literary or artistic work - identifiable through repeated usage - a repeated pattern of images (stars, seasons, blind cupid, fate, light, dark, death

  10. Terms to know Symbol = something that represents a concept other than itself Irony = the difference between appearance (or expectation) and reality (verbal, dramatic, situational) Dramatic tension = the use of opposing concepts at the same time (love vs hate , death vs life, tragedy vs comedy, light vs dark Iambic pentameter = the rythmical pattern of a poem -made up of 5 iambs per line (=5 stressed feet in which every second syllable is stressed) But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!

  11. Terms to know Blank verse = unrhymed iambic pentameter Couplet = two rhyming lines usually of the same length and meter (ends scenes, emphasizes ideas) Sonnet = a 14 line lyric poem usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter (Shakespearean sonnet = 3 quatrains and a couplet) Tragedy = a literary work (usually a play) that results in a catastrophe for the main character - often due to a tragic flaw (Romeo and Juliet both suffer from the tragic flaw of impulsiveness) Comic Relief = used to interrupt a serious part of a literary work by introducing a humorous character or situation

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