Romeo and Juliet
Honors Packet 3, Act III
Scenes 1-5
Vocabulary
Skills
Figurative Language Review
Worksheets
Scene 1 Due:_______
Scene 2 Due: _______
Scene 3 Due:________
Scene 4 Due:________
Scene 5 Due:________
Name: _______________________
Period: 1 2 4 5 6 7
Vocabulary
Word
Lament
Lurk
Revive
Stifle
Vial
Definition
Illustration
A passionate expression of
grief, mourn
To wait in a concealed place
especially for evil doing
To bring back to life or
consciousness
Suffocate; to make someone
be able to breath
Small glass or plastic bottle,
often used to store
medications
_____1. Which of the following things might you find in a vial?
A. a dog
B. a book
C. poison
Sentence
My sister lamented the loss of
our pet cat.
Romeo lurked beneath Juliet’s
balcony after the party.
After the accident, the doctors
had to revive him since his
injuries were very serious.
I was almost stifled when my
brother locked me in a shed
during the middle of summer
and wouldn’t let me out for 6
hours.
I am so scared of getting shots
that if I even see the vial
holding the medicine, I faint.
D. hope
_____2. When the flowers began to wilt, the gardener tried to _____ them by watering them again.
A. revive
B. stifle
C. lament
D. lurk
3. What are two reasons why someone might lurk?
A.___________________________________________________________
B. __________________________________________________________
4. Name something that would cause you to lament.
_____5. When the boy was locked in the closet, he was almost ____ because it had poor ventilation.
A. revived
B. stifled
C. lamented
D. lurked
_____6. George found himself in quite a _____ when his car became stuck on the tracks and a train
was
headed towards him.
A. alliance
B. protest
C. predicament
D. anguish
7. What do you think causes both Juliet and Romeo the most of woe?
____8. My mother always tells me to respect anyone who is _____ ; she thinks that family is
important.
A. gall
B. chaste
C. foe
D. kin
_____9. The house ____ to my parents’ house is for sale; there are always people driving by to look
at it.
A. adjacent
B. lurk
C. woo
D. vile
10. Name one time in the play when Romeo is in peril.
_____11. The _____ between the two foes was so great that neither could stand to even hear the
other’s name.
A. fickle
B. rancor
C. shrift
D. eloquence
____12. I tried to ____ my teacher’s decision to give us homework; however, she gave us work
anyway.
A. revive
B. pernicious
C. adjacent
D. protest
13. What is something one might do if trying to woo another person?
____14. Which of the following is the best example of retaining?
A. giving money to charity
C. keeping or saving your birthday money
B. doing your homework
D. forgetting your book for class
Skills: Irony
Situational Irony: When an occurrence is the opposite of what is expected.
Verbal Irony: When a person says one thing and means another.
Dramatic Irony: When the reader knows something the characters do not.
Figurative Language
Simile
Definition
Comparing two unlike things using the words
like or as
Example
Tim’s voice booms like the loud
speaker.
Making a direct comparison of two unlike things
The boy is a speeding bullet racing
toward the finish line
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
I woke up to the sun smiling down
at me.
The repetition of constant sounds or letters.
The sea shells sang sweet songs.
Obvious and intentional exaggeration
To wait an eternity
A word that imitates the sound it is associated
with
Buzz, Pow, Zip
The continuation of a sentence or phrase from
one line of a poem to the next, without a pause
between lines. (notice how you read without a pause)
Ex: The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee
A rhyme created by two or more words in the
same line of verse
Dr. Seus wrote in iambic
tetrameter. If he had split his lines
differently, he would have used
enjambment:
I do not eat green eggs
And ham, I will not eat them, Sam I
am
It cracked and growled, and roared
and howled.
A comparison that shows similarities between
We hold the silence / tight between
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onamonapia
Enjambment*
Internal Rhyme*
Analogy*
Consonance*
Assonance*
two things that are otherwise dissimilar. A writer
may use an analogy to explain something
unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar
The repetition of consonant sounds, typically
within or at the end of words, that do not rhyme
and preceded by different vowel sounds
us / like a live wire, / like a strip of
gold / torn from a wedding brocade
The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds
within nonrhyming words.
Ex: I’ve been trying / to remember the taste, /
but it doesn’t exist
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
About the town the owl could not
be found.
Cacophony*
Euphony*
Allusion*
Epithet*
Metonymy*
Archaism*
*= Pre-AP term
Brick-clock
Cannot-recollect
“Everywhere was tumult exultation,
deafening and maniacal bewilderment,
astounding noise, yet furious dumbshow. “The Prisoners!” “The Records!”
“The secret cells!” “The instruments of
torture!” “The Prisoners!” Of all these
cries, and ten thousand incoherencies,
“The Prisoners!” was the cry most
taken up…”
Pleasing or sweet sound; pleasing effect to the
ear, especially a pleasant sounding or
harmonious combination or succession of words
Nature’s first green is gold, / Her
hardest hue to hold. / Her early
leafs a flower;
A reference to a well-known character, place, or
situation from history, music, art, or another
work of literature. Discovering meaning of an
allusion can often be essential to undersanding a
work.
Ex: Edna St Vincent Millay alludes
to Penelope, Odysseus’s wife in the
Odyssey, in her poem “An Ancient
Gesture”: I thought, as I wiped my
eyes on the corner of my apron: /
Penelope did this too.
“the grey-eyed goddess” is Athena
A brief pause used to characterize a person,
place, or thing.
Rhetoric device or figure of speech in which a
thing or concept is not called its own name, but
by the name of something closely associated with
the concept (can be real or fictional)
The use of a form of speech or writing that is no
longer current
Uncle Sam is a name with which
the United States Government is
associated and is often used in
place of it. Hollywood is a metonym
for the US media industry.
The word thee is an archaism
because it’s old and no longer used
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