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lit 1 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| when was Shakespear born? | 1564 |
| when did Shakespear die? | 1615 |
| what age was Shakespear when he started acting? | 16 |
| how old was Shakespear when he got married.? | 18, his wife was 8 years older than him, and she was pregnant when they married |
| where was Shakespear born? | Stratford upon Avon, about 100 miles NW of London |
| why was theater so popular? | not many entertainment options. |
| Allusions | a reference to a well-known person, place, or thing. |
| how did the Elizabethans show you they didnt like your work? | they would through rotten tomatoes at the stage |
| what did the people eat while watching the plays? | hazelnut shells |
| how long did the play last. | 2 to 3 1/2 hours |
| what is the tiring house? | where all the props, costumes, and play scripts |
| how did they singnal that the play was about to start? | three trumpet blows |
| who are groundlings? | the poor people who couldn't afford seats, they had to stand. |
| star-crossed | unlucky |
| choler | ready disposition to irritation |
| valiant | possessing or acting with bravery or boldness. |
| tool | sword |
| pernicious | highly injuries or destructive |
| augmenting | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| lived at odds | not agreeing with each other |
| rest you merry | have a good day |
| boisterous | aggressive |
| chinks | money |
| why do we have prolouges? | to give a base of what's happening and why |
| what is the setting of Romeo and Juliet? | the beautiful city of Verona, two familys are fighting |
| what does the prince tell the two familys? | if they fight again he would put them to death |
| why is Romeo sad at the beginning? | he loves a girl who doesn't love him back |
| Juliets respounce to her mother talking about marrying | its an honor i don't dream of. |
| metaphor V. simile | M= like or as S= is, be, you are |
| gapes | stares |
| conjure | summon |
| discourse | conversation |
| peril | danger |
| enmity | animosity |
| rash | hasty |
| wanton | immoral |
| beseech | implore |
| shrived | absolved |
| perjuries | lies |
| vile | hateful |
| predominant | prevalent |
| rancor | malice |
| lamentable | sorrowful |
| sociable | friendly |
| Juliet askes Romeo to "if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully" what does this mean? | she wants him to tell her he loves her |
| what does juli4t do when Romeo asks her to pledge her love like him. | she re-pledges her love |
| why did the friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet | it might end their family's feud |
| what quality does the frair encourage in the relationship of Romeo and Juliet? | to not rush it. |
| summary of Act 2 s1 | Mercutio and Benvolio talk about how sad and depressed Romeo has been |
| summary a2 s2 | Romeo goes to the Capulets party and meets Juliet, they kiss. |
| s a2 s3 | romeo goes to the frair to ask him to marry him and juliet |
| s a2 s4 | mercutio and benovio are talking then romeo comes along and jokes with them. then the nurse comes to get the message from romeo to send back to juliet |
| s a2 s5 | the nurse tell juliet what romeo says, and to go to the church to be married |
| s a2 a6 | romeo and juliet are at the church with the frair and get married |
| appertaining | relating to |
| passado | a thrust in fencing with one foot advanced |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man |
| banished | to be sent away |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love |
| calamity | disaster |
| carrion-flies | a fly that lays its eggs in decaying flesh |
| woo | to court someone |
| jocund | suggestive of high spirits and lively mirthfulness |
| fickle | frequently changes |
| what is Romeos response to Tybalt's challenge | i love you more than you could know he doesnt wan to fight juliets family |
| what was romeos punishment | he was exiled showing mercy to killers only causes more |
| paradox | contradictory qualities or phases |
| how does juliet and her parents react to her and paris going to be wed | she refuses they get reallt angry |
| a3 s1 | mercutio and tybalt fight, mercutio dies. romeo kills tybalt in revenge |
| a3 s2 | juliet hears about tybalts death, she thinks romeos dead at first. |
| a3 s3 | romeo learns he sbanished and want sto kill himself |
| a3 s4 | paris convences juleits father to let him marry her and they set the date |
| a3 s5 | juliet refuses to marry paris and her father gets really angry and yells at her |
| immoderately | too much |
| unstained | faultless |
| humor | sensation |
| drift | intention |
| gadding | wandering |
| orisons | prayers |
| stifled | suffocated |
| trim her up | beautify her |
| what doe Juliet say she will do if the frair doesn't help her | she'll kill herself. |
| what excuse doe juliet give the nurse so she can be alone | she has many prayers to say |
| what are some fears of juliets about the sleeping drug | it wont work it kills her she wakes up before shes barried she will suffocate |
| a4 s1 | paris tells the frair that he and juliet are getting married the frair gives juliet the sleeping drug |
| a4 s2 | juliet goes home and pretend to be happy to marry paris |
| a4 s3 | juliet gets dressed for the wedding and is left alone, she worries about the sleep drug and then takes it |
| a4 24 | juliets family is getting ready for the wedding |
| a4 s5 | the nurse finds juliet "dead" in her room, and the family comes to morn |
| how does romeo describe the apothecary's shop? | it has tortis shells and stuffed aligaters he thinks he will sell poisin |
| why does the apothocary not want to sell poisen | he could get the death penolty |
| why didnt romeo recieve the frairs letter | the other frair who was suposed to give it to him got stuck in a town because of a sickness |
| what was paris lest request | to be laid next to juliet |
| what does romeo find strang about juliets body | her lips and cheekcs or rosy |
| wha tdoes juliet do when she wakes up | she kisses romeo and then kills herself |
| what do their familys do when they find them dead | they hug and make up |
| a5 s1 | romeo learns that juliets dead and he buys poisen |
| a5 s2 | the frair is told that romeo never got his letter |
| a5 s3 | romeo goes to the grave yard. him and paris fight and paris dies, he kills himself. juliet wakes up and kills herself |
| what was the conflict of romeo and juliet | they love each other but their familys hate each other |
| what is the theme of romeo and juliet | two lovers who go through a lot of trouble |
| who said "why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!" | Romeo |
| who said "i am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person here hath writ." | Capulets servant |
| who said "the fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared; which, as he breathed defiance to my ears, he swung about his head, and cut the winds, who, nothing hurt withal, hissed him in scorn" | Benvolio |
| who said "you are a lover; borrow cupids wings, and soar with them above a common bound" | Mercutio |
| who said "content thee, gentle coz, let him alone. 'a bears him like a portly gentleman, and, to say truth, verona brags of him to be virtuous and well-governed youth." | Lord Capulet |
| who said "if i profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: my lips, two blushing pilgrums, ready stand to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." | Romeo |
| who said " good pilgrim, you do wrong your hands too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this; for saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss." | Juliet |
| who said "can i go forward when my heart is here? turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out." | Romeo |
| who said "he jests at scars that never felt a wound" | Romeo |
| who said "o romeo! romeo! wherefore art thou romeo? deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not. be but sworn my love, and i'll no longer be a Capulet." | Juliet |
| who said "i have no joy of this contract tonight. it is too rash, too unadvised too sudden; too like lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say "it lightens" | Juliet |
| who said "love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, toward school with heavy looks." | Romeo |
| who said "in one respect i'll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your household's rancor to pure love." | Frair Lawrence |
| who said "these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as thye kiss, consume. the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in th etast confounds the appetite. therefore love moderately;" | Frair Lawrence |
| who said "i pray you, sir, what saucy merchant was this that was so full of his ropery" | the Nurse |
| who said "more than prince of cats i can tell you. o, he's the courageous captain of compliments. he fights as you sing prick-song -- keeps time, distance, and proportion; rests me his minim rest, one, two and the third in your bosom!" | Mercutio |
| who said "well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man. romeo? no, not he. though his face be better than any man's, yet his legs excels all men's;" | The Nurse |
| who said "well, sir; my mistress is my sweetest lady. lord, lord! when 'twas a little parting thing --o, there is a noble man in town, one paris, that would fain lay knife aboard; but, i'll warrent you, when i say so, she looks as pale as any clout" | the nurse |
| paraphrase | to reword something, yet maintain its original meaning |
| wo said "romeo, the love i bear thee can afford no better term than this: you art a villian." | Tybalt |
| who said "a plague o' both your houses! i am sped. is he gone and has nothing? | Mercutio |
| who said "this days black fate on more days doth depend; this but begins the woe others must end" | Romeo |
| who said "happyness courts thee in her best arrey; but, like a misbehaved and sullen wench, thou pout'st upon thy fortune and they love. take heed, take heed, for such die miserable." | Frair Lawrence |
| who said "beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! dove- feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! despised substance of divinest show! just opposite to what thou seemst -- a damned saint, an honorable villain! | Juliet |
| who said "be paitient, for the world is broad and wide" | frar Lawrence |
| who said "o tell me, friar, tell me, in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? tell me, that i may sack the hateful mansion" | Romeo |
| who said "they noble shape is but a form of wax" | frair laurence |
| who said "more light and light: more dark and dark our woes!" | Romeo |
| who said "o god! i have an ill-divining soul! methinks i see thee, now though art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale" | Juliet |
| who said "we will have vengeance for it, fear thou not. then weep no more. i'll send to one in mantua, where the same banished rungate doth live, shall give him such an unaccustomed dram that he shall soon keep tybalt company;" | lady Capulet |
| who said "what, rouse thee, man! thy juliet is alive, for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead. there art thou wast but lately dead. there art thou happy. tybalt would kill thee, but thou slewest tybalt. there art thou happy." | Frair lawrence |
| who said "faith, we may put up our pipes and be gone." | the musicians |
| who said "if i may flatter the truth of sleep" | Romeo |
| who said "art thou so bare and full of wretchedness and fearest to die/ famine is in thy cheeks, need and oppression starveth in thine eyes contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back." | Romeo |
| who said "come, cordial and not poison, go with me to Juliet's grave; " | Romeo |
| intro: | we meet the Capulets and Montagues and learn of the family feud. |
| rising action: | Romeo and Juliet meet and kiss, and learn that they are from feuding family's. |
| highest point: | Romeo and Juliet get married. |
| turning point. | Juliet learns she has to marry Paris |
| falling action: | Juliet takes the sleeping drug, and Romeo thinks Shes dead, he kills himself and then Juliet kills herself. |
| Conclusion: | the Capulets and the Montagues find Juliet and Romeo dead and hug and make up. |
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