This term means the audience knows more than the character(s).
What is dramatic irony?
100
This is Romeo's family and the bitter enemy of the Capulets.
Who are the Montague?
100
This is the city where the play takes place.
What is Verona, Italy?
100
In the play, this is believed to be the main role a woman plays in life.
What is a wife/mother?
100
"I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword,
Or manage it to part these men with me."
Who is Benvolio?
200
A long and typically tedious speech by one person during a conversation.
What is a monologue?
200
This character practically raised Juliet and feels very close to her, despite not being her mother.
Who is Nurse?
200
In this scene, Benvolio gives Romeo wonderful advice on how to get over a girl and convinces him to go to the party.
What is Scene 2?
200
This character has a very different view on dreams compared to Romeo; he believes there's a 'Queen Mab'.
Who is Mercutio?
200
"But I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ, and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ. I must to the learned in good time!"
Who is Peter?
300
A character that is used to enhance another character through contrast.
What is a foil?
300
This character could be labeled a 'peacemaker' and is Romeo's cousin.
Who is Benvolio?
300
In this Scene, Romeo meets Juliet for the first time.
What is Scene 5?
300
This character tempts to sway Capulet into allowing him to marry Juliet, despite Capulet believing she is too young.
Who is Paris?
300
"Her chariot is an empty hazelnut
Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub,
Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers"
Who is Mercutio?
400
A character that remains primarily the same throughout a story or novel.
What is a static character?
400
This character, along with Gregory, is a servant of the House of Capulet and in Scene 1 'bites his thumb' towards a Montague servant.
Who is Sampson?
400
This is the decade that Romeo and Juliet takes place.
What are the 1300s?
400
This character is no peacemaker; he calls Romeo a villain and states he hates the word peace and all Montagues.
Who is Tybalt?
400
"On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,
And hear the sentence of your movèd prince."
Who is Prince Escalus?
500
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.
What is a soliloquy?
500
This character is the opposite of a peacemaker and calls Romeo a 'villain' in Scene 5.
Who is Tybalt?
500
The age of Juliet.
What is 13 years?
500
This character informs the Capulets and Montagues that if they ever fight again, they will pay for it with their lives.
Who is Prince Escalus?
500
"Go to, go to.
You are a saucy boy. Is ’t so, indeed?
This trick may chance to scathe you, I know what."