Romeo and Juliet takes place in this real Italian town.
What is Verona?
100
This sets R&J apart from other Shakespeare plays.
What is the shift from comedy to tragedy?
100
Define iambic pentameter.
What is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one?
200
Romeo and Juliet takes place during this era.
What is the 1500s?
200
Name two of the three themes of R&J?
What are love, hate, and fate?
200
This poet wrote the story of Romeus and Juliet as a long poem that was itself not original.
Who is Arthur Brooks?
300
Romeo and Juliet begins as this genre, but ends as a tragedy.
What is a comedy?
300
This is the rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG?
300
Define adaptation and give an example.
What is a story based on another existing story?
400
Name one element of a comedy.
What is a struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty that is often presented by elders, separation and unification, heightened tensions - often within a family?
400
A Shakespearean sonnet has this many lines.
What is 14?
400
The city of Verona receives 1000 of these every valentine's day.
What is letters to Juliet, asking relationship advice?
500
Name one of the elements of a tragedy.
What is must have a tragic hero/heroine, or ends in the death of many of the main characters?
500
Define couplet.
What is two consecutive lines that rhyme?
500
The phrase "star crossed lovers" refers to this idea.
What is two people who are in love but have conflicting astrological signs?