Creating a Storyboard for a Shakespeare Scene

Question 1

When writers adapt their writing, they should adapt it to

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the audience for which they are writing.

Question 2

When adapting a Shakespearean speech for a modern audience, what should the writer focus on changing? Choose three answers.common nouns and verbsfigurative words and phrasesmodern slangunfamiliar or outdated wordsunusual syntax

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figurative words and phrases; unfamiliar or outdated words; unusual syntax

Question 3

Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life:

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She uses figurative language, which creates a foreboding tone.

Question 4

connotationsdenotationsfigurative languageliteral meaning

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connotations

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,I have no joy of this contract to-night:It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden;Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beEre one can say it lightens.

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her fear that their promises will not last.

Question 6

Read the passage from Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v.Benvolio: Away, be gone; the sport is at the best.Now read the adaptation.Benvolio: Let’s go; the best part of the party is over.

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updates the language.

Question 7

Read the dialogue from Act I, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: Is love a tender thing? it is too rough,Too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.

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pricks like thorn

Question 8

The feeling, attitude, or mood created by a text is called the text’s

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tone.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: What lady is that which doth enrich the handOf yonder knight?Now read the adaptation.Romeo: Who is that lady that knight is stuck with?

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changes the tone.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Nurse: Now, afore God, I am so vexed, that every part about me quivers. Scurvy knave! Pray you, sir, a word; and as I told you, my young lady bade me inquire you out; what she bid me say I will keep to myself; but first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her into a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say: for the gentlewoman is young; and, therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing.

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vexed

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