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Copy of Copy of Romeo & Juliet 12/6 (6/23/2025)

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Rhyme Scheme
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Look at The Prologue again. Pay attention to the rhyme scheme. Drag the letters to identify the rhyme scheme.

Two households, both alike in dignity ______
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, ______
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, ______
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. ______
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes ______
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; ______
Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows ______
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. ______
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love ______
And the continuance of their parents’ rage, ______
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, ______
Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; ______
The which if you with patient ears attend, ______
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. ______
Other Answer Choices:
E
D
F
E
B
A
G
D
A
C
B
G
F
C
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Why do you think Shakespeare chose to use this rhyme scheme in The Prologue?

What are Pilgrims?
In the United States, we usually associate pilgrims with Thanksgiving and people in tall black hats and shoes with big buckles.

The word “pilgrim” actually refers to anyone who travels to a sacred place for religious reasons.
In the Middle Ages, before Shakespeare’s time, pilgrims traveled to holy sites in the Middle East, in what is now called Israel.

They called that region the “Holy Land,” and saw many palm trees there.
Photograph of a palmer.

Palmers were worshipers who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land brought back a leaf from a palm tree as a sign of their journey.
Metaphors
10
Use the sentences to identify the two items being compared.

Ex. The snow is a white blanket.

The ______________________ was a ______________________ .
The ______________________ was a ______________________ .
______________________ is a ______________________ .
Her lovely ______________________ was ______________________ to his ears.
______________________ is a ______________________ .
Other Answer Choices:
zoo
roller coaster
life
voice
melting pot
America
refrigerator
classroom
music
hospital
Holy Palmers
A metaphor is a comparison that doesn’t use “like” or “as." Given what we know about pilgrims and palmers, let’s think about how Romeo uses them as a metaphor to indirectly flirt with Juliet and suggest that his feelings are more than just a crush in the First Encounter Scene.

The First Encounter Scene

Act 1, Scene 5, lines 90-99


Romeo

90 If I profane with my unworthiest hand
91 This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
92 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
93 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.


Juliet

94 Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
95 Which mannerly devotion shows in this:
96 For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
97 And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.


Romeo

98 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?


Juliet

99 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray'r.
1

Read Romero's first four lines.

What action is Romeo talking about when he says he might "have "profane[d]...this holy shrine"?

Required
1
If, in Romeo’s metaphor, lips are represented by pilgrims, then what is he calling a sacred place? __________
1

Why do Romeo call his sin "gentle"?

1

Juliet calls Romeo a “pilgrim,” which is the same thing as a palmer. In line 97, how does she describe a palmer’s kiss?

1

Juliet is saying something true about palmers, but what is she really telling Romeo?

1

Romeo points out that palmers have lips; what is he really telling Juliet?

1

How is this scene changed by Romeo's and Juliet’s use of an extended metaphor to flirt rather than trying to say what they feel more directly?

Fill in the Synonym
4
Romeo: O then, dear saint, _______ (let) lips do what hands do,
They pray- _______ (grant) thou, lest faith turn to despair.

Juliet: Saints do not _______ (move), though grant for prayers' sake.

Romeo: Then move not while my prayer's _______ (effect) I take.
Homework
Required
1

PART I: Which of Romeo's lines do you think convinces Juliet to kiss him?

Scene 5

ROMEO
90 If I profane with my unworthiest hand 91 This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, 92 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand 93 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. JULIET 94 Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, 95 Which mannerly devotion shows in this: 96 For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, 97 And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss. ROMEO 98 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too? JULIET 99 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray’r. ROMEO 100 O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do, 101 They pray—grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. JULIET 102 Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake. ROMEO 103 Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
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In line 98, Romeo asks, “have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?” What does he mean by this?

Required
1
Romeo gives the nickname "saint" to __________
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1
Who or what does Juliet say has been wronged during this scene?__________
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1

In lines 99–103, which word is repeated the greatest number of times?

1

How does Romeo and Juliet’s language show that they make a good couple? Develop your reasons with evidence from the text. (APE- This answer should be 4-6 sentences).

Scene 5

ROMEO
90 If I profane with my unworthiest hand
91 This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this,
92 My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
93 To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET
94 Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
95 Which mannerly devotion shows in this:
96 For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
97 And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

ROMEO
98 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET
99 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray’r.

ROMEO
100 O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do,
101 They pray—grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET
102 Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

ROMEO
103 Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
Required
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In this passage Juliet has __________
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Romeo's lines rhyme with Juliet's lines __________
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2

Select two of Romeo’s lines that rhyme with Juliet’s.

ROMEO
98 Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
JULIET
99 Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in pray’r.
ROMEO
100 O then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do,
101 They pray—grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
JULIET
102 Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
ROMEO
103 Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
Required
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How many syllables are in most of the lines?