Characters
This character acts as Romeo’s confidante. Romeo turns to him for advice and support.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
What symbol in Romeo and Juliet represents reality, conflict, and separation, when the lovers are forced apart and danger becomes visible?
What is day?
What are Peeta and Katniss in The Hunger Games and Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet called when their relationships are doomed by fate and end in tragedy?
What is star-crossed lovers?
This character sentences Romeo to exile or banishment after Romeo kills Tybalt.
Who is Prince Escalus?
What symbol in Romeo and Juliet represents immediate, emotional violence and impulsive actions that lead to sudden death?
What is a dagger?
How long did Romeo and Juliet know each other before they got married in Romeo and Juliet?
What is about one day?
"Oh, woeful sympathy" is an example of what literary device?
What is oxymoron?
This character wants Juliet to be happy. She first helps her be with Romeo then tells her to consider Paris.
Who is the Nurse?
What symbol in Romeo and Juliet represents slow, secretive death that reflects planned actions and tragic consequences over time?
What is poison?
List the characters who died in chronological order
Who is Mercutio, Tybalt, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lady Montague
“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and power, which, as they kiss, consume” is an example of what literary device?
What is simile?
This character is Romeo’s cousin and a peacemaker between the two families.
Who is Benvolio?
What symbol in Romeo and Juliet represents change and unpredictability, shown when Juliet asks Romeo not to swear his love by it because it is always shifting?
What is the moon?
Who was Lady Capulet dressed up as during the masquerade ball in the movie version of Romeo and Juliet?
Who is Cleopatra?
"And fall upon the ground, as I do now,/Taking the measure of an unmade grave." Is an example of what literary device?
What is foreshadowing?
This character is offended after seeing Romeo at the Capulet party. Instead of fighting Romeo there, he sends Romeo a letter and challenges him to a fight.
Who is Tybalt?
What symbol in Romeo and Juliet represents secrecy, safety for the lovers, and a time when their relationship can exist away from society’s rules?
What is night?
Who did Romeo and Benvolio meet that allows (causes) them to go to the Capulet party?
Who is the illiterate Capulet servant?
What literary device is shown in these quotes from Romeo and Juliet? “O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!” and “O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.”
What is allusion?