Pyramus and Thisbe Study Guide 1. Pyramus and Thisbe are forbidden to

2. How do Pyramus and Thisbe communicate?

3. What is the name of the landmark where they are meeting at night?

4. Who leaves their home first?

5. Explain the metaphor in lines 14-16 (hint: what does the word force

mean in this context?).

6. Explain changes that occur in the mulberry tree, and explain why the

change occurs.

7. Find the phrase that tells that Thisbe caused both Pyramus' death and

her own.

8. What origin story is the Greek myth explaining?

9. How are the snow white berries a kind of foreshadowing that adds

tension to the story (lines 52-53)?

10. How do lines 69-73 foreshadow future events?

11. Why is it important that the lioness shreds the shawl?

12. Detail Thisbe's reaction to Pyramus' death.

13. In what ways are P&T and R&J similar? Different?

postive, comparative, superlative - good, better, best

recall how we defined nouns as words capable of having plurals and possessive endings. adjectives (and their first cousin, the adverb) also have a feature that distinguishes them. they come in three states. first, the raw adjective—in its positive state—merely describes the noun modified; it doesn’t care about how this particular person or thing stacks up against other members of the same noun class

choose from these types:

the innocent

the orphan

the hero

the caregiver

the explorer

the rebel

to refer to another writer's ideas in the course of making your own original statement. when you use a summary in the course of your own writing, you must use your be used in book reviews (see chapter 8), in essays of analysis (see, nection between sentences, and you can create new paragraphs to reflect