English/Schwartz
Romeo and Juliet Exam STUDY GUIDE
WHAT will the test be like? 70 matching, true/false, and multiple choice questions, plus some extra credit in a bonus round!
WHAT do I need to know for the test? Everything on this handout!
WHERE should I go to find what I need to know? PowerPoint notes (“Brush Up Your Shakespeare”), close readings and notes, literary device practice handouts (figurative language and allusion, puns, irony, etc.), scene summaries, class website…
Characters, especially…
1. Romeo
2. Juliet
3. Nurse
4. Friar Lawrence
5. Tybalt
6. Mercutio
7. Lord Capulet
8. Lady Capulet
9. Benvolio
10. Lord Montague
11. Lady Montague
12. Friar John
13. Balthasar
14. Prince
15. Paris
16. Rosaline
17. Apothecary
18. Chorus
Literary Terms
1. allusion
2. oxymoron
3. simile
4. metaphor
5. pun
6. personification
7. hyperbole
Shakespearean
theater and more literary terms
1. Casting (all males)
2. Physical plan of theater (3/4 or thrust stage, many levels)
3. Name of Shakespeare’s theater: the Globe
4. What going to the theater was like back then
5. Tragedy
6. Catharsis
7. Shakespearean tragedy plot chart (exposition, climax/turning point, catastrophe/resolution)
8. When was R&J first performed? 1595
9. Monologue
10. Soliloquy
11. Aside
12. Blank verse
13. Prose (and who would speak in it)
14. Setting
15. Sonnet form
16. Comic relief
17. Paradox
18. Dramatic, situational, and verbal irony
19. Light/dark imagery
20. Foreshadowing
Themes in R&J
Including… fate/fortune, acting too hastily, different types of love (including courtly love)
Close readings
Be familiar with and understand the meaning of all of our close readings.
Plot