Identify the element of the play reflected in each statement.

_____________1. Romeo is the son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague; a
young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive.
_____________ 2. Destruction is inevitable when ambition goes unchecked by moral
constraints.
_____________3. The events in Romeo and Juliet took place sometime in the
sixteenth
century.
_____________4. ―I think not of them: Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve.
We
would spend it in some words upon that business, if you would
grant the time.‖
_____________ 5. Macbeth is Thane of Glamis. A superb general, he is a physically
powerful man, able in a fight to eviscerate a man with an upward
stroke.
Use the graphic organizer below to plot the events in William
Shakespeare‘s Romeo and Juliet as to its exposition, rising
action, climax, falling action and resolution.
• In fair Verona… around 16th or 17th century, a pair of star-crossed lovers -
Romeo and Juliet - meets amidst the feud of their family.

• Being the only person who knows the whole story, the Friar explains it to the
families, who decided to finally end their grudge.

• Romeo and Juliet fell in love but cannot be together because their families do
not like each other. They decided to get married in secret.

• Juliet‘s father requests that she marries Count Paris. However, to escape a
second wedding she and Friar Lawrence concoct a plan to make it appear
as if she dies. By taking a sleeping potion.

• After crashing the Capulet party, Tybalt goes after the Montague crew and
kills Mercutio. To avenge his friend, Romeo duels with and kills Tybalt – Juliet‘s
cousin. Romeo is banished, but before he goes he gives Juliet a proper
wedding night.