R And J Test 1,2

Question 1

Definition of a shakspharan tragedy

Answer 1

• recounts a series of events in there life of a person of significant (the tragic hero)
• the purpose of a tragedy is to arouse the emotions of pity and fear in the audience
• a tragedy shows missed potential
• the tragedy hero is usually at the park of his career with everything going well for him where the tragedy stricks
• a tragic hero usually dies at the end of the play

Question 2

Definition of a tragic flaw

Answer 2

• the tragic hero is essentially a good man with a character weakness: a tragic flaw
• a tragic hero is faced with external forces or pressures that required him to make a decision and because of his tragic flaw (character weakness) he makes the wrong decision

Question 3

Plot structure of a shakspharan tragedy

Answer 3

A: exposition- describes the mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the play, inturduces the key characters,setting, plot concepts

B:exciting force- event that get things going, begins the conflict which will continue in the play

C:rising action- follows the characters and develops the plot as play moves toward the climax

D:climax- turning point of the play, this point on, the hero move toward his/hers inevitable end

E:falling action- includes events from after the climax up to the heroes death

F-catastrophe- the heroes death, the play usually ends with so,e resolution to the conflict

Question 4

Soliloquy

Answer 4

A speech deliverd while the speaker is alone, to inform the audience of what the character is thinking

Question 5

Dramatic irony

Answer 5

When the audience knows something the characters do not

Question 6

Petrarchan lover

Answer 6

Someone who is in love with the idea of being in love

Question 7

Unrequited love

Answer 7

When someone loves someone who does not

I’ve him/her back

Question 8

Conceit

Answer 8

An extended, exaggerated comparsion or metaphor between two unlike things

Question 9

Oxymoron

Answer 9

Contradictory works placed side by side

Question 10

Monologue

Answer 10

A speech givin by the one person in front of the other actor/actresses on stage

Question 11

Comedic relief

Answer 11

When the playwright uses a character to make the audience laugh before or after an intense or serious scene

Question 12

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 12

When the weather matches the events/atmosphere in the play-builds on the mood

Question 13

Pun

Answer 13

Plays on different meanings of words

Question 14

Shakespearen sonnet

Answer 14

A-b-a-b
c-d-c-d
G-g

14 lines

Question 15

Exposition

Answer 15

Describes then mood and conditions existing at the beginning of the play introducing key characters,settings, and plot concepts

Question 16

Exciting force

Answer 16

Event that gets things going,begins the conflict which will continue the play

Question 17

Rising action

Answer 17

Follows the characters and develops the plot as the play moves toward the climax

Question 18

Climax

Answer 18

Turning point of the play this point on the hero moves toward his/hers in evitable end

Question 19

Falling action

Answer 19

Includes event from the climax up to the heros death

Question 20

Catastrophe

Answer 20

The heros death the play usually ends with some resolutions to the conflict

Question 21

Scene 3.2

Answer 21

• Juliet’s soliloquy demonstrates how she longs to be with Romeo
• Nurse arrives to give her the bad news about Tybalt dying and Romeo being banished.
• Nurse is to go tell Romeo to visit J that night before he goes into exile.

Question 22

3.3

Answer 22

• At Friar’s cell, Romeo hears of how he has been banished; he is devastated and considers death to be an easier alternative.
• Friar and the nurse try to convince R to have strength and be hopeful.
• Romeo is to go to Mantua and wait to hear from Friar L who is going to hopefully get him back.
• Romeo is off to see J one last time before he leaves.

Question 23

3.4

Answer 23

• Father Capulet agrees to Paris’ proposal in the hopes that it will make Juliet happy again.
• They decided to plan the wedding for Thursday.

Question 24

3.5

Answer 24

• Romeo leaves to go to Mantua
• Lady Cap tells Juliet about Tybalt’s death and announces that J is to marry Paris on Thursday
• Juliet rejects the marriage and her father threatens to shun her if she will not marry Paris
• Nurses tells her to marry Paris, but Juliet doesn’t agree
• J sets off to Friar L for help

Question 25

4.1

Answer 25

• Paris and Juliet meet at Friar Laurence’s cell (lots of dramatic irony here) (Paris wants to arrange the marriage and J wants to prevent the marriage)
• Friar L gives J a potion to make her seem dead, then he plans to write Romeo and tell him to come get Juliet and then they will run away to Mantua together.

Question 26

4.2

Answer 26

• Juliet pretends to agree to her father’s wishes about marrying Paris
• Capulet is excited and moves the wedding up a day…

Question 27

4.3

Answer 27

• Juliet contemplates the problems of drinking the poison a day early
• She imagines the tomb and Tybalt’s dead body
• She drinks the poison

Question 28

4.4

Answer 28

• Capulet is ordering servants around getting ready for the wedding
• He orders nurse to go wake Juliet up

Question 29

4.5

Answer 29

• Nurse finds Juliet appearing to be dead
• They plan for the funeral instead of the wedding
• Friar Laurence encourages them to not be sad, but happy that she is in heaven
• Peter engages in banter with the musicians

Question 30

5.1

Answer 30

• Romeo got the wrong info from Balthasar that Juliet is dead
• the apothecary gave him poison which he wants to take after he gets to Juliet’s tomb

Question 31

5.2

Answer 31

• Friar John says he couldn’t deliver the letter to Romeo in Mantua
• Friar Laurence intends to go get Juliet himself and keep her in his cell until Romeo comes

Question 32

5.3

Answer 32

• Romeo goes to the tomb to see Juliet and die with her.
• He encounters Paris and then Romeo kills Paris.
• He drags Paris’ body into the tomb and then Romeo kills himself with the poison.
• Friar Laurence comes to check on tomb but then runs away
• Juliet wakes up, finds Romeo dead and kills herself with a dagger
• Watch arrives, along with Prince and parents
• Friar Laurence is found and returns to testify and explain what happened
• Families feud ends (they shake hands) and the Prince suggests that some people are innocent and others are guilty in the tragedies.