San Diego Jewish Academy
9th Grade Humanities
Romeo and Juliet Unit Test Review


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Prologue, Act I: identify key elements and purpose

Elizabethan Sonnet Form Elements: define and label

  • Quatrain
  • Couplet
  • Rhyme scheme
  • Meter: Iambic Pentameter
  • Number of lines

Vocabulary, week of February 5-9: define, use in context, when appropriate identify examples in text

  • William Shakespeare
  • Sonnet
  • Tragedy
  • Prologue
  • Pun
  • Globe Theatre
  • Mutiny
  • Star-crossed
  • Cupid
  • oxymoron

World History Reading, pp. 428-9, Shakespeare’s background: respond to the section 2 review questions on pages 429-30

Promptbook: identify key elements and purpose (think, how would the promptbook for Zefirelli’s version of the play have differed from Luhrman’s? how would it have been similar?)

Stage Directions/Diagram/Set Design: identify key elements and purpose (think: what would a set design look like for Zefirelli’s balcony scene? for Luhrman’s?

Vocabulary, week of February 19-23: define and use in context

  • Anon
  • Thou
  • Enmity
  • Infinite
  • Beauteous
  • Friar
  • Rancor
  • Woo
  • Bawdy

Subtext: identify purpose and effect

Plot: review using scene summaries, acts 2 and 3 quizzes, notes, and handouts

Characters: review using scene summaries, acts 2 and 3 quizzes, notes, and handouts

Role of Fate in the plot: review Fate Debate and Fortune’s Fool Handout and responses

Literary Elements we used as we read: define and identify examples in text

  • Comic relief
  • Foreshadowing
  • Metaphor
  • Simile
  • Personification
  • Dramatic Irony


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