WorksheetsPoetry Terms + R&J Prologue and scene 1
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 7mins
The prologue is a Shakespearean sonnet. It is sixteen lines long, contains three rhyming quatrains and a rhyming couplet, and is in:
Iambic pentameter
Iambic quadrameter
Trochaic pentameter
Shakespearian pentameter
Didactic trimeter
Many of the jokes Sampson and Gregory make are puns, “carry coals” “colliers”, “be in choler”, “the heads of the maids or their maidenheads. Take it in what sense thou wilt” (1.1.1, 2, 3,26-27). These puns frequently play on a word to represent the whole idea, which means these jokes rely on metonymy.
True
False
The prologue tells the audience that the children teach their parents/families to stop fighting. Generally it does not take the double suicide of children for lessons to be learned AND parents are more often seen as the teachers of their children. Making this both tragic and (a) .
Sampson is bragging about his prowess and machismo by describing how he will attack the Montague men and women, so he is making a positive assertion through negative language. Thus this is an example of:
(a)
Romeo uses a series of oxymorons "o loving hate, o brawling love, o heavy lightness, serious vanity" in his monologue to Benvolio when he sees that there's been another riot. Because he is directly addressing the emotions this is an example of (a) .
Scene 1 is written in prose, but the Prologue takes the form of:
a poem
a sonnet
an ode
an elegy
Gregory teases Sampson saying that if he were fish he'd be poor-John the ___ being that Sampson is not that great.
connotations
denotations
implications
allusion
The ___ of mutiny in the prologue imply that an authority figure (the prince) has told the feuding families to stop rioting.
connotations
denotations
symbolism
allusion
The ___ of the phrase "naught could remove" in the prologue demonstrates that ONLY Romeo and Juliet's deaths can end this bloody feud.
connotations
denotations
hyperbole
understatement
Sampson and Gregory are looking to instigate a fight with the Capulets, but they want the Capulets to hit first because that way:
the law is on their side
the Prince's rule will have been followed
the reputation of the Capulets will be damaged
the reputation of the Montagues will be protected
