HELP!! Read Romeo’s soliloquy and write an adaptation for an audience expecting a modern English update to
Romeo and Juliet. Focus on maintaining the meaning and tone of the original by paying close attention to
the impact of word choice. Use the various Romeo figures and speech bubbles to show how an actor
would stage your adaptation. Be sure that there is a strong relationship between the gestures of the
figures and the meaning and tone of the text.

Match the bolded words in the excerpts to their contextual meanings. unoriginal well-groomed numerous he was a gentleman from sole to crown, clean favored and imperially slim. (from "richard cory" by edwin arlington robinson) this debt we pay to human guile; with torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties. (from "we wear the mask" by paul lawrence dunbar) . .if it must, these things are important not because a high-sounding interpretation can be put upon them but because they are useful. when they become so derivative as to become unintelligible, the same thing may be said for all of us, that we do not admire what we cannot understand. . (from "poetry" by marianne moore)