Starter quiz
- 'An intense feeling of deep affection' is the definition of which word beginning with 'l'?
- 'love' ✓
- Which of the following is the definition of lust?
- having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone
- an intense desire for something, particularly sexual desire ✓
- a feeling or state of resentment, bitterness, or hostility toward someone
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- In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', the prologue tells us that ...
- Romeo and Juliet are fated to die. ✓
- Romeo and Juliet aren't meant to be together.
- Romeo and Juliet will live happily ever after.
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- 'A narrative device in which a storyteller gives an advance hint of what is to come later in the story' is the definition of which word beginning with 'f'?
- 'foreshadow' ✓
- Which of the following is the definition of a 'brawl'?
- to speak to someone angrily because you disapprove of their behaviour
- an exchange of diverging or opposite views
- to fight or quarrel in a rough or noisy way ✓
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- 'Sadness that lasts for a long period of time' is the definition of which word beginning with 'm'?
- 'melancholy' ✓
Exit quiz
- At the beginning of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', Romeo is in love with ______.
- 'Rosaline' ✓
- 'The act or an instance of treating a person as an object or thing' is the definition of which of the following?
- personification
- zoomorphism
- objectification ✓
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- In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', which of the following words does Romeo repeatedly use to describe Rosaline?
- "fair"
- "beauty" ✓
- "wit"
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- In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', Romeo compares Rosaline to ______.
- 'treasure' ✓
- In Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet', Rosaline...
- returns Romeo's love.
- asks Romeo to leave her alone.
- doesn't return Romeo's love. ✓
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- '(Of a feeling, especially love) not returned' is the definition of which word beginning with 'u'?
- 'unrequited' ✓
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Key learning points
- At the beginning of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Romeo is in love with Rosaline but it is unrequited.
- Romeo is melancholic at the beginning of the play - he is isolating himself and uncertain.
- Romeo’s depiction of Rosaline implies that his love for her is more lust than love.
- The oxymorons within Romeo’s speech could represent his unrequited love for Rosaline.
- The oxymorons could also foreshadow the inescapable connection between love and violence.
Common misconception
That Juliet is Romeo's only love in 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Before meeting Juliet, Romeo was in love with Rosaline.
Keywords
Unrequited - (of a feeling, especially love) not returned
Objectification - the act or an instance of treating a person as an object or thing
Melancholy - sadness that lasts for a long period of time
Lust - an intense desire for something, particularly sexual desire
Oxymoron - two words or phrases used together that have, or seem to have, opposite meanings
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