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EAL Nexus resource
Romeo and Juliet quote bank
Essay writing – PEE paragraphs
Subject:
English
Age groups:
12–14,15–16
Topic:
Romeo and Juliet
Licence information | This resource is free to use for educational purposes.
©British Council 2015
Source | This resource was originally developed by Claudine Field and Mary Ann Apcar from Stoke Newington School in Hackney for the
Collaborative Learning Project, and piloted in schools with help from Sabrina Broadbent at the English and Media Centre, and has been adapted
by EAL Nexus.
Point
Romeo loves
Juliet very much
and thinks she is
very beautiful.
Act/Scene
Who is
speaking
Evidence/Quote
Act 1 Scene 5
At Lord
Capulet’s party
Romeo
O, she doth teach
the torches to burn
bright!
What the quote
means
She is so beautiful
that she shines
more than the
torches lighting
the room.
Explanation
Romeo meets Juliet,
falls instantly in love
with her, forgetting
Rosaline. He is a
romantic young man
and the sort of person
who rushes into things.
Romeo and Juliet essay writing: PEE paragraphs
Using the table you can make a PEE (Point Evidence Explanation) paragraph like this
Romeo loves Juliet very much and thinks she is very beautiful. In Act 1 Scene 5, at Lord Capulet’s party, Romeo
says “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” This means that she is so beautiful that she shines more than
the torches lighting the room. This tells the audience that Romeo falls instantly in love with her, forgetting
Rosaline. He is a romantic young man and the sort of person who rushes into things.
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Here is some more language that might be useful. Look up any words you don’t know in a dictionary.
Instead of ‘says’ you could try:
says
declares _____________________
exclaims _____________________
Instead of ‘This tells the audience that’ you could
try:
This tells the audience that …
This shows that …
protests _____________________
This conveys the fact that …
agrees ______________________
This makes it clear that …
disagrees ____________________
This makes it clear to the audience that …
argues ______________________
advises ______________________
reflects ______________________
explains ______________________
This emphasises that …
We can see from this that …
Shakespeare is showing us that …
Here Shakespeare makes it clear that …
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Now make another PEE paragraph using the table below:
Point
Juliet is very
important and
precious to Lord
Capulet.
Act Scene
Act 1
Scene 2
Who is
Evidence/Quote
speaking
Lord Capulet Earth hath
swallowed all my
hopes but she;
She is the hopeful
lady of my earth,
What the quote
means
My other children
have all died. She is
my only child and
the most precious
thing in my life.
Explanation
Lord Capulet is talking to Paris,
who says he wants to marry
Juliet. Lord Capulet is saying that
he doesn’t want her to get
married too young.
He is protective of his daughter.
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