Short Story Unit
The Prologue of the play reveals this very critical detail of the story to the audience
What is the impending deaths of Romeo and Juliet
"A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me."
Mercutio
"...DAY STANDS TIPTOE on the misty mountain tops..." (III.v.9-10).
Personification
This type of character is many-sided and has a complex personality one would expect of an actual human being
What is round
Why does Capulet arrange the hasty wedding between Paris and Juliet?
He thinks the wedding will distract Juliet from her grief over Tybalt's death
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; being purged, a fire sparkling in a lovers' eyes; being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears..."
Romeo
"Ask for me tomorrow and YOU SHALL FIND ME A GRAVE MAN" (III.i.94-95).
Pun
What type of irony is this: Romeo is about to drink the poison, but the readers know that Juliet is just about to wake up.
What is dramatic irony
This is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean Sonnet, also known as an Elizabethan Sonnet.
What is abab, cdcd, efef, gg
"Happily met, my lady and my wife... That may be, must be, love, on Thursday next"
Paris
"O HAPPY DAGGER! This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die" (V.iii.168-169).
Personification
What type of irony is this? Someone posts on social media criticizing and judging how others use social media.
What is situational irony
What is Friar's "back-up" plan regarding Juliet after learning Romeo took his own life?
He will bring Juliet to a convent where she will live out the rest of her life in seclusion as a nun
"Such mortal drugs I have, but Manuta's law is death to any he that utters them..."
Apothecary
“AND YOU RE US AND FA US, YOU NOTE US.”
Pun
Mathilde Loisel can best be described as what kind of character? (Two words)
Round and dynamic
When Juliet asks, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" she is wondering:
Why Romeo is a Montague
"Talk not to me, for I'll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee."
Lady Capulet
"Oh God, I have an ill-diving soul! METHINKS I SEE THEE, NOW THOU ART SO LOW, AS ONE DEAD IN THE BOTTOM OF A TOMB" (III.v.54-56).
Foreshadowing / simile