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WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet: Before Reading
Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 58mins
Who said it?
Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
He needs to make some money
He wants Romeo to stop being a player
He's trying to end a family feud
Good question. It's a bad idea!!
How does Romeo kill himself?
jumps off a bridge
poison from Friar Laurence
poison from an apothecary
he eats a poisonous flower
Who failed to deliver messages to Romeo?
Friar John
Balthasar
Friar Laurence
Mercutio
How long have Romeo and Juliet known one another before they decide to get married?
weeks
months
days
hours
Who tries hard to keep the peace?
Tybalt
Mercutio
Benvolio
Paris
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The highlighted portion is an example of what type of figurative language?
Personification
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Allusion
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Which of the following best explains the purpose for the prologue?
To inform the audience that we must pay attention to the tragic events in order to learn the lesson.
To entertain the audience by summarizing what will happen so we do not have to work as hard to understand.
To persuade the audience to sympathize with Romeo and Juliet because they cannot be together
To inform the audience of how things began in Verona, specifically how the feud started.
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
We discover all of the following about the play from the prologue EXCEPT...
Setting
A feud
Romeo and Juliet's death
How long the play is
How the feud started
