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2. Literary term #40: Understatement

I literary device in which the writer (or speaker) deliberately makes something sound like much less than it is. This is the opposite of hyperbole, and is often used in a sarcastic or ironic way.

Ex: When Mercutio knows he has been mortally wounded, he refers to it as merely "a scratch."

Ex: Your school's football team loses 63-0, and afterward the coach says to the players, "Well, we didn't exactly do so well tonight."

3. Allusion #40: Cinna

In Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, this character name appears twice, first as someone who is closely connected to the assassination plot against Caesar, and later as a poet who is mistaken for the first Cinna and is then viciously murdered by a mob.  Both of these characters are alluded to in the one character Cinna in The Hunger Games, as someone who is subversively plotting against the government of Panem and who also gets murdered for helping Katniss. 

4. Go over Good Angel/Bad Angel lists and discuss soliloquy (IV.iii.14-58)

5. Begin Act V of Romeo and Juliet, page 895