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- 2. A sonnet is written in ______ ______; this means that there are _____ meters of an _______ syllable (or beat) followed by a stressed syllable or beat.
- 5. Romeo is a ____________ and Juliet is a _____________ and their families are ______________ (the plural of this word changes in spelling by removing the last letter and adding ies).
- 8. _______ is an adjective because it ______ a person who is bad-tempered, sulky and gloomy. Adjectives are parts of speech that are used to describe people, objects or events.
- 10. Sadly, according to the prologue it is only the ______ of their children that will end the ______ between the Montagues and the Capulets.
- 11. Some people during Shakespeare's time believed in looking at astrology or the stars to read signs or omens that could be _______, or a sign of doom or ominous events. The suitors in Homer's The Odyssey did not believe that the two eagles were a sign that predicted evil from the gods.
- 12. A sonnet has exactly _____ (write the word not the number) lines.
- 13. ______ is an ________ that is used to describe an action, event or object that is deadly or destructive. The feud between the Capulets and Montagues is deadly and destructive because according to the prologue it is making "civil hands ______" meaning people are killing one another.
- 17. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare begins with the ________ which would be recited in unison by a group of actors and provides a _____ of the play's plot and purpose. It is written as a ___________; this type of poem has a strict structure.
- 18. A group of four _______ rhyming lines of a sonnet is called a ___________.
- 19. The two "households" from the prologue are the Capulets, and ______ belongs to this family and the Montagues, and Romeo belongs to this family.
- 20. The grudge between the Capulet and Montague families is a type of strife, or ______ _____. What part of speech is strife?
- 22. There are ten of these in every line of a Shakespearean sonnet. These are defined as the beats of a word.
- 24. Romeo and Juliet are referred to as ______ _______ _______ in the prologue, which means that "fate" or "destiny" brings them together. Anytime students read references to stars in the play, Shakespeare wants them to think of fate and destiny- what the characters do not control or choose.
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- 1. prologue informs the audience that there is an ancient or old fashioned and outdated ______, or an argument people refuse to leave in the past, that is creating a new mutiny or _______ or revolt.
- 3. A _____ is a rebellion against authority and it is a noun because it is an idea, rather than an object you can hold in your hand, although a revolt is an event a person can see happen with their eyes.
- 4. Another word for households could be __________; or the people who are related to each other and live in the same "household."
- 6. The final two ______ lines of a sonnet are referred to as the _______ _____. The function of these two lines is to summarize or capture the poem's big idea, also known as the ________ or the author's message.
- 7. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is the ___________ __________ of a sonnet. Students must write this in all capital letters with a clear space in between each set of letters.
- 9. If you have gone to court and been found not guilty you have been _______ of the crime.
- 10. The ______ of Odysseus is the he is the _______ of Ithaca. There is no one in his kingdom with a higher _____ position, _____ or station.
- 14. mutiny means nobility, social position, rank, ____ or station and it is a __________ or idea (hint: part of speech)
- 15. Most people want their banks accounts to do this.
- 16. A magician or a witch would do this.
- 21. Shakespeare uses the word ______ two times in the last line of the first quatrain. This is known as a PUN or a play on a word's two meanings. One definition is citizen, and the other has to do with being a person who follows the laws and rules of a society.
- 23. Based on the prologue, readers should be able to infer Romeo and Juliet is set in the fair or beautiful city of _____ in the country of __________.