Romeo and Juliet Test Review
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Background Info:
1. When was William Shakespeare’s birthday?
2. When did Shakespeare die?
3. Where was William Shakespeare born?
4. What holiday is also celebrated in England on William Shakespeare’s birthday?
5. What were Shakespeare’s parents’ names?
6. What theatre were Shakespeare’s plays performed in?
7. What was the nickname of the lower class audience members in the theatre?
8. What was the name of Shakespeare’s wife?
9. Who were Suzanna, Judith, and Hamlet?
10. Why did the theatre that Shakespeare’s plays were performed in have to be moved
across the river?
11. What was ironic about Shakespeare’s death?
12. Where did Shakespeare go to school?
Answer Key:
1. April 23, 1564
2. April 23, 1616
3. England
4. St. George’s day
5. John and Mary
6. The Globe
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8. Ann Hathaway Stratford
9. Shakespeare’s children
10. The rent was too expensive
11. Same date as his birthday
12. Stratford Grammar school
Name the people who spoke the following quotes and interpret them.
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“O sweet Juliet,/Thy beauty hath made me effeminate/And in my temper softened valor’s steel.”
“O, I am Fortune’s fool!”
“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day./It was the nightingale, and not the lark,/that pierced the
fearful hollow of thine ear.”
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
“ Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love.”
“You kiss by the book.”
“ “I am aweary. Give me leave awhile./Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I!
“A plague on both your houses.”
“Let Romeo hence in haste,/Else, when he is found, that hour is his last.”
1) What does Thy mean?
1) What does wherefore mean?
2) What does thou mean?
3) How many syllables are in a line of Iambic Pentameter.
4) What does Minstrel mean?
5) What are the two meanings of consort?
6) What are the two meanings of discord?
7) What does hath mean?
8) What does doth mean?
9) What does e’en mean?
10) What does ere mean?
11) How is the difference in the way the servants and royals talk.
Answers
1) your
2) why
3) you
4) ten
5) traveling musician
6) dance; keep company/aid/help
7) Chaos; music cord
8) Has been
9) Does
10) Evening
11) before
12) servants talk in prose, royals talk in poetry
Name the literary device being used in the following quotes:
1. “Tis twenty years till then.”
2. “Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night”
3. “Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.”
4. “I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
5. “These violent delights have violent ends.”
6. “The gray-eyed morn smiles…”
7. “Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce.”
8. “More than prince of cats…”
9. “Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold.”
10. “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;”
Answer Key
1. hyperbole
2. rhyming couplet
3. personification
4. pun
5. foreshadow
6. personification
7. metaphor
8. allusion
9. alliteration
10. metaphor
Study the Following:
Literary Devices
Alliteration: The repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants.
Example: Act II, scene iv “Wind who woos…”
Allusion: a reference to a person place event or literary work that a writer expects the
reader to recognize.
Example: Act II, scene ii “at lovers’ perjuries. They say Jove laughs”
Assonance: the repetition of similar vowel sounds.
Example: Act I, scene v “and palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss”
Blank Verse: verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Example: Act II, scene v “the clock stuck nine when I did send the nurse”
Hyperbole: a figure of speech using exaggeration or overstatement for special effect
Example: Act II, scene ii “A thousand times goodnight”
Imagery: words or phrases that create pictures or images in the readers’ mind
Example: Act II, scene ii “and make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine”
Irony: a contrast or an incongruity between what is stated and what is really meant or
between what is expected to happen and what actually happens
Example: Act I, scene v “go ask his name if he be married my grave is like to be
my wedding”
Metaphor: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are
basically dissimilar
Example: Act II, scene ii “Juliet is the sun”
Oxymoron: A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory ideas or
terms.
Example: “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate” – Romeo
Personification: A figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human
qualities
Example: “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.” – Friar Lawrence
Rhyming couplet: two consecutive lines of iambic pentameter that rhyme.
Example: “Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift./Riddling confession finds but
riddling shrift.” – Friar Lawrence
Pun: The use of a word or phrase that suggests two or more meanings simultaneously
Example: Consort – dance/be with
Soliloquy: An extended speech delivered by a character alone on stage
Example: Mercutio’s famous soliloquy about Queen Mab
Foreshadow: the use of hints or clues in a narrative that suggests what will happen later.
Example: “These violent delights have violent ends.” – Friar Lawrence
Shakespeare Background
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Shakespeare’s Birthday
o April 23, 1564
Shakespeare’s birth place
o Stratford
Holiday celebrated in England on Shakespeare’s Birthday
o St. George’s Day
Name of Shakespeare’s parents
o John and Mary
School Shakespeare attended
o The King’s New School
What Shakespeare studied in school
o English Alphabet. Latin Grammar, Roman Authors
Shakespeare’s Wife
o Anne Hathaway
Shakespeare’s Children
o Susana, Hamlet, Judith
The name of Shakespeare’s acting company (The Lord Chamberlain’s Men) when
James became King
o King’s Men
Date of Shakespeare’s death
o April 23, 1616
Things stated in Shakespeare’s will
o Money to his daughter and sister
o Swords to local citizens
o Plates to daughter/granddaughter
Prince Quotes
"Go hence to have more talk of these sad things, some shall be pardoned and some punished. For
there never was a story or more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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"If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace.
Friar Lawrence Quotes
"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."
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"Too swift arrives as tardy too slow."
"These violent delights have ends/and in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Romeo Quotes
"It is the east and Juliet is the sun."
"O true apothecary, the drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
"Be merciful, say 'death', For exile hath more terror in his look, Much more than death: Do not say
banishment.
Juliet
“O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale.”
Act 3 Scene 5 Lines 54-57
"Romeo, Romeo, wherefore artthou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name"