Romeo and Juliet
Honors Packet 1, Act 1
Scenes 1-5
Keep:
Vocabulary
Figurative Language Review & Pre-AP
Unit Skills
Worksheets
Scene 1 Due:_______
Scene 2 Due: _______
Scene 3 Due:________
Scene 4 Due:________
Scene 5 Due:________
Figurative Language Due:______
Name: _______________________
Period: 1 2 4 5 6 7
Vocabulary
WORD
Anguish
DEFINITION
Severe mental pain or
physical suffering
Augment
Making something greater
by adding to it; increase
Brawl
Large scale fistfight usually
involving several people
Chaste
Foe
Pure in thought and action;
not having experience sexual
intercourse
An adversary or opponent
Forswear
To deny under oath; to
formally renounce
Gall
Something bitter (difficult)
to go through
Kin
One’s relatives
SENTENCE
IMAGE
When the two teenagers
were forbidden to see each
other, they were both in
anguish.
The students augmented the
pile of papers the teacher
had to grade by each turning
in an essay.
The police had to stop the
angry fans from beginning a
brawl after the town’s
basketball team lost the
championship game.
The bride looked chaste in
her white gown as she
walked down the aisle
toward her new husband.
The two foes argued every
time they saw each other.
I had to forswear cheating in
order to not get into trouble.
When we were kids, there
was lots of gall between my
brother and I; we fought
constantly.
Every year, my kin gets
together around Christmas
to exchange presents and
spend time together.
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Mad
Pernicious
Crazy
Having a harmful effect
Profane
To treat (something
important) with abuse
Quarrel
An angry argument or
disagreement
Shrift
Confession (especially in
relation to a priest)
The mad scientist created a
horrible creature that
eventually destroyed the city.
A pernicious illness spread
rapidly through the city;
thousands of people got sick
and hundreds died.
He profaned the church by
using inappropriate
language while inside.
A long-standing quarrel
between George and his
neighbors started because
George refused to watch
their dog when they went on
vacation.
When talking to her friend,
Maria hoped to hear a true
shrift about whether or not
he had stolen her watch.
Extremely unpleasant
Vile
Woo
The crime was so vile that no
one could talk about it
without crying.
To go after the affection of;
court
To woo someone usually
involves complimenting
her/him and buying her/her
gifts.
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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
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
We hold the silence / tight between 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
About the town the owl could not be
found.
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onamonapia
Enjambment*
Internal
Rhyme*
Analogy*
Consonance*
Assonance*
Brick-clock
Cannot-recollect
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Cacophony*
Euphony*
Allusion*
Epithet*
Metonymy*
Archaism*
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
“Everywhere was tumult exultation,
deafening and maniacal bewilderment,
astounding noise, yet furious dumb-show.
“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
*= Pre-AP term
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Skills: Puns
A pun is a ______________________.
Puns usually involve words that are similar in ______________ or a word that has
________________________.
Act 1, Scene 1
Gregory: The quarrel is between our masters and us their men.
Sampson: ‘Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the
men, I will be cruel with the maids, and cut off their heads.
Gregory: The heads of the maids?
Sampson: Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what
sense thou wilt.
Gregory: They must take it in sense that feel it.
Sampson: Me they shall feel while I am able to stand: and ‘tis known I am a
pretty piece of flesh.
Gregory: ‘Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John.
Draw thy tool! Here comes two of the house of the Montagues.
This exchange between Sampson and Gregory has two different puns. Explain in the
box.
Maids/Maidenheads
Feel/Fish/Tool
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Skills: Foil
A foil is a character who provides a ______________________to another character.
A foil may emphasize another character’s ______________________ or may make
another character look better by comparison.
A foil essentially is a character that ________________ and _________________
another character.
Harry Potter versus Draco Malfoy
How does Malfoy contrast Harry? AKA, what is so different about the two?
1)
2)
3)
Tomboy versus Girly Girl
How is a Tomboy different from a Girly Girl?
1)
2)
3)
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Name:
Scene I
Period:
Reading Guide
1. Describe the fight: Who is fighting and over what? Who breaks up the fight? Then,
explain what propelled the fight to escalate to such a high level and what that escalation
reflects about the emotions of the two families.
3. What threat does the Prince make to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet? What could
this foreshadow?
4. Explain why Romeo’s sadness may be such a shock to the audience? What does his
sadness tell us about his characterization?
5. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo? Based off of his advice and handlings of the
brawl, what can you infer about Benvolio’s characterization so far?
Analysis Practice: Why is thumb-biting such a big deal in the story? What does the
thumb-biting and its potential cataclysmic consequences suggest about the fighting
between the Montague and Capulet household? (Go beyond the obvious: that it could
start a fight!)
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Vocabulary Practice
_____1. Which of the following would cause the most anguish?
A. the death of a close friend or relative
C. winning the lottery
B. being jealous of a friend
D. adding ingredients to a recipe
2. Name three of your kin.
_____3. Finally, the officer heard a true __________ out of the criminal; he finally
admitted he had been lying.
A. brawl
B. gall
C. augment
D. shrift
_____4. Which of the following is the best example of something chaste?
A. a person who has never committed a crime
C. a person who has
committed many crimes
B. a person who always wears white
D. a person who never
carries a cell phone
5. What is something a mad person might do?
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Name:
Reading Guide
1. How old is Juliet?
Scene II
Period:
2.What does Paris ask Capulet about and how does Capulet respond?
3. What does this exchange between Capulet and Paris suggest about Juliet’s own role in
determining her future?
6. How do Romeo and Benvolio learn about the Capulet’s ball and what do they decide
to do?
7. At this point, what would the audience be predicting?
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act I Scene I
Romeo speaking on page 704. Lines 166-177
Alas that love, whose view is muffled still,
Should without eyes see pathways to his
will!
Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was
here?
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
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Here’s much to do with hate, but more
with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Vocabulary Practice
_____1. Jordan ___________ that he will not attend Saturday School even if he ends
up getting suspended; the
principal thinks that he is making a poor choice.
A. forswears B. foes
C. augments D. brawls
2. Name two things friends may quarrel over.
3. What are two foes of mice?
_____4. He _______ the teacher when he refused to do his work; the teacher was so
upset, she cried. 
A. kin
B. vile
C. profaned D. pernicious
_____5. Which of the following is most likely to create gall in a child?
A. someone given the child cake
C. someone helping the child with
his/her homework
B. someone stealing the child’s toy
D. someone taking the child’s
vegetables away
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Name:
Scene III
Period:
Reading Guide
1. How does Juliet feel about getting married? How do you know?
2. Following Juliet’s answer, what does Lady Capulet then tell Juliet?
3. Explain what Juliet meant when she said: “I’ll look to like, looking liking move; / But
no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly”
4. In this scene, we are introduced to our three main female characters. Give a
description of how each is characterized so far:
Lady Capulet:
Nurse:
Juliet:
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act I Scene 3
Lady Capulet speaking lines 79-86
What say you? Can you love the gentleman?
This night you shall behold him at our feast.
Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,
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And find delight writ there with beauty’s
pen;
Examine every married lineament,
And see how one another lends content;
And what obsur’d in this fair colume lies
Find written in the margent of his eys.
Vocabulary Practice
_____1. The gentleman _____ her after asking her father for permission to do so; she
eventually grew to love him.
A. wooed
B. pernicioused
C. anguished D. foed
2. What are three things you consider vile?
_____3. The additional lamp _____ the light already coming into the rooms through
the windows.
A. foed
B. galled
C. augmented
D. wooed
_____4. The three men created a _______ after they insulted some strangers; all who
participated were later arrested.
A. brawl
B. chaste
C. kin
D. forswear
_____5. Which of the following is best described as pernicious?
A. a rainbow B. a blizzard C. a telephone call D. a song
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Name:
Period:
Scene IV
Reading Guide
1. According to Mercutio, who or what is Queen Mab, and what does she or it do?
2. What does Mercutio say about dreams?
3. Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech is one of the most famous in the whole play. Give an
explanation as to why this speech may be so famous.
4. What is Romeo’s mood at the end of this scene? Explain.
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act I Scene 4
Romeo speaking lines 106-111
I fear, too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, clos’d in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
But He that hath the steerage of my course
Direct my sail! On, lusty gentlemen!
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Vocabulary Practice
Each of the following quotes from the play contain a vocabulary word. In the space
provided, write what the quote means.
EXAMPLE:
“…here comes one of my master's kinsmen”
Here comes one of my boss’s family members.
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1. “Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,/ Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel”,
2. “you [must] quench the fire of your pernicious rage”
3. “Three civil brawls, bred of a… word,/ By thee…/Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of
our streets”
4. “Thou shalt not stir a foot to seek a foe”
5. “Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach”
6. “Many a morning hath he there been seen,/ With tears augmenting the fresh
morning dew”
7. “I would thou wert so happy by thy stay,/ To hear true shrift.”
8. “She hath forsworn to love”
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Name:
Period:
Scene V
Reading Guide
1. Who recognizes Romeo and how does he recognize him?
2. When the answer to the above question gets mad, what is Capulet’s response?
3. Explain how Romeo convinces Juliet to kiss him. Then explain how Juliet convinces
Romeo to kiss her a second time.
4. Identify the secret sonnet in scene V (by line numbers).
Analysis Practice: Where does the theme of predetermined fate assert itself in Act I?
Give 1 textual example of this theme and 1. Explain how the textual example qualifies
itself as the theme of predetermined fate and 2. Explain how this textual example
impacts both plot and/or characterization
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Vocabulary Practice
Each of the following quotes from the play contain a vocabulary word. In the space
provided, write what the quote means.
EXAMPLE:
“…here comes one of my master's kinsmen”
Here comes one of my boss’s family members.
c
1. “woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart”
2. “Why, Romeo, art thou mad?”
3. “expire the term/ Of despised life … / By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”
4. “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!/ For I ne'er saw true beauty till this
night.”
5. “Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?”
6. “I will withdraw: but this intrusion shall/ Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.”
7. “I profane with my unworthiest hand/ This holy shrine”
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Name:
Period:
Figurative Language Practice
Quote
Figurative Language Used
________ is being
compared to _________.
(explain the figurative
Explain language used/or
the comparison made)
Romeo: Love is smoke made
with the fume of sights. (Act
1 Scene 1)
Romeo: One fairer than my
love! The all seeing sun /
Ne’er saw her match, since
first the world begun (Act 1
Scene 2)
Romeo: O she doth teaches
the torch to burn bright / It
seems she hangs upon the
cheek of night / as a rich
jewel in Ethiop’s ear. (Act 1
Scene 5)
Romeo:"My lips, two
blushing pilgrims, ready
stand"(Act 1, scene 5)
Nurse: "he's a man of wax"
(Act 1, scene 3)
Romeo: "Is love a tender
thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boist'rous, and
it pricks like thorn" (Act 1
Scene 5)
Mercutio: "If love be rough
with you, be rough with
love; prick love for pricking,
and you beat love down."
(Act 1 Scene 4)
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A1S5 Lines 91-104
The lines of the Prologue
contain:
A1S2 Line 3: "For men so old as
we to keep the peace."
A1S4 Mercutio: You are a
lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings / And
soar with them above a common
bound
Prologue: A pair of starcross’d lovers
Juliet: Wherefore art thou,
Romeo?
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