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Ninth Grade Literature and Composition Unit 4 Exam Study Guide
INSTRUCTIONS: In order to help you prepare for your Unit 4 Exam on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, including analysis of characters,
plot, literary devices, themes, etc., complete this study guide. (Note that the exam will also include four passages, two poems and two informational
pieces. You will read each of them, and then utilize the skills that you have developed in order to analyze them.) Use your notes, classroom
assignments, textbook, etc., to find the information that you need. Be sure to actually STUDY this study guide prior to the exam.
Part One: Romeo and Juliet Characters
1. Describe Romeo, including his personality, significant actions, and
death:
Part Two: Romeo and Juliet Plot Events and Details
17. Describe the setting of Romeo and Juliet, including the time and
place:
2. Describe Juliet, including her personality, significant actions, and
death:
18. Explain Lady Capulet’s and the Nurse’s opinion of Paris:
3. Describe Mercutio, including his personality, significant actions,
and death:
19. Explain the events of the Capulet party, including Tybalt’s
response to Romeo’s presence:
4. Describe Tybalt, including his personality, significant actions, and
death:
20. Explain why Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet:
5. Describe Benvolio, including his personality and actions:
21. Describe the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt:
6. Describe the Nurse, including her personality and actions:
7. Describe Paris, including his personality, actions, and death:
22. Explain the significance of Mercutio’s dying words:
8. Describe Friar Lawrence, including his personality and significant
actions:
23. Describe the fight between Tybalt and Romeo:
9. Describe Prince Escalus, including his significant decisions and
proclamations made in Act I and Act III of the play:
24. Explain Lord Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris:
10. Describe Friar John, including his role in Act V of the play:
11. Explain Rosaline’s role in Act I of the play:
12. Describe Lord Capulet, including his personality and actions:
25. Explain the plans that Friar Lawrence and Juliet make while
Romeo is in Mantua:
26. Explain why the Apothecary agrees to sell Romeo the poison
even though it is illegal:
13. Describe Lady Capulet, including her personality and actions:
14. Describe Lord Montague, including his actions at the end of the
play:
15. Describe Lady Montague, including the circumstances of her
death:
16. Describe Balthasar, including his role in Act V of the play:
27. Explain which two characters informed the Prince of the truth at
the end of the play:
28. Explain how the feud between the Montagues and Capulets ends
at the conclusion of the play:
Part Three: Drama Terms
29. Define dialogue:
41. Define hyperbole:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
30. Define aside:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
42. Define alliteration:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
43. Define metaphor:
31. Define monologue:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
44. Define simile:
32. Define soliloquy:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
45. Define oxymoron:
33. Define comedy:
34. Define tragedy:
35. Define tragic hero:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
46. Define paradox:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
36. Define tragic flaw:
47. Define imagery:
37. Define dramatic irony:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
38. Define foil:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Part Four: Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet
39. Define allusion:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
40. Define personification:
Provide an example from Romeo and Juliet:
Part Five: Literary Terms
48. Define tone:
Provide an example of tone:
49. Define central idea:
Provide an example of a central idea:
50. Define theme:
Provide an example of a theme:
51. Explain what it means if an author’s purpose is to inform:
Part Seven: Characteristics of a Shakespearean Sonnet
53. Define sonnet:
Provide an example:
54. Define iambic pentameter:
52. Explain what it means if an author’s purpose is to persuade:
Provide an example:
55. Define quatrain:
56. Define couplet:
57. Define end rhyme:
58. Identify the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet: