English 9 Final Exam
Mr. Prosser
150 Multiple Choice (Honors w 2 Essays)
Part I
Reading Comprehension
 25 Questions
 Read 3 Passages
 Apply Literary Terms
Part II
Poetry- Terms and Analysis
 @ 25 Questions
 Poetry Packet and Poetry Terms
 Read 2 Poems & Application
Part III
Grammar- Fragments/Run-ons, Pronouns & Homophones
 @ 15 Questions
Part IV
Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare
 @ 15 Questions
 Notes and Bio
Part V
Romeo & Juliet
 @ 35 Questions
Part VI
Vocabulary and Root Words
 @ 35 Questions
 Academic 4-6 & Honors 5-8
 Definition
 Complete the Sentence & use in context
 Root words List 5-8
Literary Terms & Notes
Exposition, Inciting Moment, Complications, Climax, Denouement (Resolution)
Conflicts- Man v, Nature, Man, Self, Society
Irony- Verbal, Dramatic, Situational
Hyperbole, Idiom, Understatement
Literary Terms
Theme
Characterization
Foreshadowing
Direct & Indirect
Symbolism
Flat/Round, Static/Dynamic
Protagonist & Antagonist
Poetry Terms
alliteration
meter
mood
imagery
internal
rhyme
simile
slant
rhyme
allusion
apostrophe
onomatopoeia
metaphor
tone
assonance
personification
figurative language
rhythm
blank verse
repetition
consonance
rhyme
Romeo and Juliet
Background information- The play takes place in the town of Verona.
Characters
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Romeo is a Montague. He falls in love with Juliet and proceeds to marry her. He
is a tragic character. He is characterized as hasty and emotional. He is young.
Juliet- She is a Capulet. She falls in love with Romeo. She believes marriage
should be for love. She is also characterized as hasty. She is young
Lord Capulet- He is Juliet's father. He is strict, harsh, not understanding. He
wants her to marry Paris.
Lady Montague-She is Romeo's mother. She is very busy and strict.
Lord Montague-He is Romeo' father. He is stubborn and not willing to forgive.
County Paris- He is kinsman of Prince. He cares about Juliet and wishes to
marry her.
Prince Escalus- He is Prince of Verona. He wants to call a truce and end the
family feud.
Friar Lawrence- He is the Priest in Verona. He weds Romeo and Juliet hoping it
will unite both families. Instead it causes fighting. He later gives Juliet sleeping
potion. He helps Romeo out.
Friar John-He was supposed to deliver a letter to Romeo about Juliet, but Romeo did not
get it.
The Nurse- She cared for Juliet during childhood. She wants Juliet to be happy.
She is very talkative.
Mercutio-He is a good friend of Romeo
Balthasar-He is a servant amd a friend of Romeo.
Benvolio- He is a friend of Romeo
Tybalt- He is a nephew of Lady Capulet. He has a bad temper.
Samson- He is a Capulet servant
Gregory-He is a Capulet servant
Plot summaryRomeo (Montague), who is in love with Rosaline, goes to a party in an effort to forget her or to
ease his broken heart. At this party he met Juliet, and immediately fell in love with her. He later
finds out that she is a Capulet, the rival family of the Montagues. He decides that he loves her
anyway and they confess their love for each other during the very famous "balcony scene" in
which they agree to secretly marry the next day. Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them in an effort
to end the feuding between the families. Unfortunately, the fighting gets worse and Mercutio
(Montague) , a good friend of Romeo's, ends up in a fight with Tybalt (Capulet), Juliet's cousin.
Tybalt kills Mercutio, which causes Romeo to kill Tybalt in an angry rage. For this, Romeo is
banished from Verona.
At the same time, the Capulet's are planning Juliet's marriage to Paris. Juliet does not want to
marry this man so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion
that will make everyone think that she is dead. Friar Lawrence promises to send word to Romeo
to meet her when the potion wears off and to rescue her to Mantua, where Romeo is currently
staying. There they would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, Romeo does not receive this
message on time and upon hearing of her "death" goes to Juliet's tomb where he drinks poison
and dies. When Juliet's potion wears off, she awaken's to find her lover's corpse. She then
proceeds to stab herself with Romeo's dagger. The two families find the bodies and their shared
sorrow, finally make peace with each other.
Themes Hastiness- Romeo is hasty to fall in and out of love. The two are too hasty to get
married; they never thought about what could go wrong.
 Infatuation- Romeo and Juliet, in all probability, were not really in love. They were
infatuated with each other. They were in love with the idea that they were in love. They
could not have fallen so deeply in love with only one conversation.
 Selfishness- Everyone in this play (except Benvolio) acts selfishly. Juliet never told her
parents about Romeo and did the selfish act of faking her death, which greatly upset
them. The Capulets were selfish for making Juliet marry a man that she did not love.
Both of the families were selfish for continuing the fighting. Friar Lawrence ran away
when they saw the two families go into the tomb. He wanted to prevent himself from
getting in trouble. Tybalt was selfish for killing Mercutio. Romeo was not thinking of
Juliet as he killed her cousin.
Key Issues
 Feuding- The feuding of the families was the whole reason for the tragedy. They should
have reconciled their differences years ago. They didn't even know what they were
fighting about.
 Stereotypes-Some members of the Capulets and Montagues have never even met and yet
they hate each other. Why? Because of a person's last name.
 Dreams- The whole story had occurred in a dream which foretold their fate . This was a
warning for Romeo yet he chose to ignore it.
 Sacrifices- Romeo and Juliet were willing to sacrifice their relationship with their
families in order to be together.
 Fate- It was considered fate that they would meet and fall in love and then die for each
Elizabethan Theatre
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Where was Shakespeare born? Date?
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Family- Wife, Kids, Parents
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Name of his 2 Acting Companies/Troupes
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3 Types of plays he wrote
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3 Examples of each
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Name several Theatres of the time
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List the Monarchs of the time