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- 2. 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 __________.
- 4. _____ is a Montague.
- 10. 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 main idea, also known as the ________ or the author's message.
- 12. Sadly, according to the prologue's second quatrain, it is only the demise of their children that will end the feud between the Montagues (Romeo's family) and the Capulets (Juliet's family). "Doth with their ______ bury their parents' _____."
- 13. Juliet is a _________.
- 15. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare begins with the ________ which would be recited in unison by a group of actors and provides a preview of the play's plot and purpose. It is written as a ___________; this type of poem has a strict structure.
- 17. __________ Capulet is Juliet's cousin who is an excellent swordsman or dueller with a terrible __________.
- 18. Romeo's cousin who likes to keep the peace and who is the FOIL character of Tybalt is _________ Montague.
- 19. In the first line of the second quatrain (or line 5) of the prologue the word _____ means deadly, the word _____ means reproductive parts, and the word ____ means enemies or adversaries.
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- 1. A sonnet is written in ______ ______; this means that there are _____ meters of an _______ syllable (or beat) followed by a stressed syllable or beat.
- 3. A group of four alternating _____ lines of a sonnet is called a ___________.
- 5. In the first quatrain, "An _____ grudge breaks to a new _____" which is a type of 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.
- 6. Another word for households could be __________; or the people who are related to each other and live in the same "household."
- 7. The son of the king is known as a ___________. The name of the Prince of Verona is named Prince Escalus.
- 8. Shakespeare uses the word ______ two times in the last line of the first quatrain. This is known as a _____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.
- 9. 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.
- 11. 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.
- 14. A sonnet has exactly _____ (write the word not the number) lines.
- 16. There are ten of these in every line of a Shakespearean sonnet. These are defined as the beats of a word.
- 20. 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.