Romeo and Juliet
Packet 1, Act 1
Scenes 1-5
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Period: 1 2 4 5 6 7
Vocabulary
WORD / DEFINITION / SENTENCE / IMAGEAnguish / Severe mental pain or physical suffering / When the two teenagers were forbidden to see each other, they were both in anguish.
Augment / Making something greater by adding to it; increase / The students augmented the pile of papers the teacher had to grade by each turning in an essay.
Brawl / Large scale fistfight usually involving several people / The police had to stop the angry fans from beginning a brawl after the town’s basketball team lost the championship game.
Chaste / Pure in thought and action; not having experience sexual intercourse / The bride looked chaste in her white gown as she walked down the aisle toward her new husband.
Foe / An adversary or opponent / The two foes argued every time they saw each other.
Forswear / To deny under oath; to formally renounce / I had to forswear cheating in order to not get into trouble.
Gall / Something bitter (difficult) to go through / When we were kids, there was lots of gall between my brother and I; we fought constantly.
Kin / One’s relatives / Every year, my kin gets together around Christmas to exchange presents and spend time together.
Mad / Crazy / The mad scientist created a horrible creature that eventually destroyed the city.
Pernicious / Having a harmful effect / A pernicious illness spread rapidly through the city; thousands of people got sick and hundreds died.
Profane / To treat (something important) with abuse / He profaned the church by using inappropriate language while inside.
Quarrel / An angry argument or disagreement / A long-standing quarrel between George and his neighbors started because George refused to watch their dog when they went on vacation.
Shrift / Confession (especially in relation to a priest) / When talking to her friend, Maria hoped to hear a true shrift about whether or not he had stolen her watch.
Vile / Extremely unpleasant / The crime was so vile that no one could talk about it without crying.
Woo / To go after the affection of; court / To woo someone usually involves complimenting her/him and buying her/her gifts.
Figurative Language
Definition / ExampleSimile / Comparing two unlike things using the words like or as / Tim’s voice booms like the loud speaker.
Metaphor / Making a direct comparison of two unlike things / The boy is a speeding bullet racing toward the finish line
Personification / Giving human qualities to nonhuman things. / I woke up to the sun smiling down at me.
Alliteration / The repetition of constant sounds or letters. / The sea shells sang sweet songs.
Hyperbole / Obvious and intentional exaggeration / To wait an eternity
Onamonapia / A word that imitates the sound it is associated with / Buzz, Pow, Zip
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/ToolSkills: 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)
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3)
How is a Tomboy different from a Girly Girl?
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Tomboy versus Girly Girl
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Scene I
Reading Guide
1. Who is fighting at the beginning of the first scene?
2. Who tries to break up the fighting?
3. What threat does the Prince make to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet?
4. Benvolio and Montague describe the way Romeo has been acting. What do they have to say about him?
5. Why is Romeo so sad? Explain.
6. What is Benvolio’s advice to Romeo?
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.
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. 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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Scene II
Reading Guide
1. How old is Juliet?
2.What does Paris ask Capulet about?
3. What is Capulet’s first answer?
4. A bit later Capulet appears to change his mind about Paris’ question. What does he then tell Paris?
5. What is the name of the woman Romeo loves?
6. How do Romeo and Benvolio learn about the Capulet’s ball?
7. What do Romeo and Benvolio decide to do?
Summarizing Practice: In the lines below, summarize Act I Scene 2
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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Scene III
Reading Guide
1. How does Juliet feel about getting married?
2. Following Juliet’s answer, what does Lady Capulet then tell 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,
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. wooedB. perniciousedC. 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. foedB. galled C. augmented D. wooed
_____4. The three men created a ______after they insulted some strangers; all who participated were later arrested.
A. brawlB. 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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Scene IV
Reading Guide
1. According to Mercutio, who or what is Queen Mab, and what does she or it do?
2. Why doesn’t Romeo want to go to the ball?
3. What does Mercutio say about dreams?
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 misgivesSome 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!
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. “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 forswornto love”
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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. Who tells Romeo and Juliet who the other is?
4. What does Juliet want to know about Romeo after he leaves?
Summarizing Practice: In the lines below, summarize Act I Scene 5
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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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Figurative Language Practice
Quote / Figurative Language Used / ______is being compared to ______. (explain the figurative language used/ 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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