Romeo and Juliet Act 1

"Sick health," heavy lightness," "still-waking sleep," "feather of lead" are all:

• oxymorons
• examples of irony
• similes
• foils

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"Love is a smoke, made with the fume of sighs" is a(n):

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, / Too rude, too boist'rous ..." is an example of:

• metaphor
• personification
• imagery
• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"[love] pricks like a thorn" is an example of:

• simile
• personification
• metaphor
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Dreams are the children of an idle brain" is an example of:

• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

"My only love, sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late." is an example of:

• oxymoron
• couplet
• sonnet
• simile

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Mercutio's detailed description of Queen Mab and her carriage (lines 53-69 of scene 4) is an example of:

• irony
• simile
• oxymoron
• imagery

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A device an author uses to prepare a reader for an event or action that is to happen later in the story.

• Foreshadowing
• Foreground
• Foretelling
• Foreman

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The first act of Shakespeare’s plays usually open with a ________.

• song
• couplet
• prologue
• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Shakespeare uses the prologue to inform the audience that _____________.

• Romeo is a Montague & Juliet is a Caplet
• Juliet is a widow
• Romeo is a fugitive
• The lovers from two feuding families will die

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10