Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
Analysis
Context
Wild card
100
The genre of the play

Tragedy 

100

Juliet's costume at the Capulet party

An angel

100

The technique present in "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"

Repetition/rhetorical question

100

The time periods the play and film were produced in

Elizabethan era and Postmodern era

100

The number of acts in Shakespearean plays

5

200

The names of the feuding families

Capulet and Montague

200

The place of Mercutio's death

Verona beach 

200

The technique present in "A plague o’ both houses!"

Foreshadowing 

200

A strict hierarchy ranking all life from God to the different classes of humanity.

The Great Chain of Being

200

The year Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet was released

1996

300

the setting of the romeo and juliet death scene

Juliet's tomb 

300

Water is a symbol for...

the purity of Romeo and Juliet's love and the division between them

300

The technique present in "palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss"

Biblical allusion

300

The Divine Right of Kings

A religious doctrine stating that the monarchy's power is granted by God

300

The five types of context

historical, political, cultural, social, personal

400

The character that publicly fought Benvolio

Tybalt 

400

Where we can see metafiction in the film 

the theatrical abandoned stage, mass media, broadcast news

400

The technique present in "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief"

Iambic pentameter/metaphor/personification

400

List 3 qualities of postmodernism

Intertextuality, broad skepticism, sensitivity to ideology in maintaining political power, rejection of absolute truths

400

The relevance of Romeo and Juliet being set in renaissance Italy

- Allowed Shakespeare to critique his own society from a distance

- Filial loyalty

- Freer than Elizabethan England

500

The number of people Romeo killed

2 (3 including himself)

500

What starts the fight at the gas station between the Montagues and Capulets?

Thumb-biting 

500

The technique present in “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Metaphor

500

The time frame of postmodernism

1960-2000

500
The differences between verbal, situational and dramatic irony
  • VERBAL IRONY- Refers to spoken words only and occurs when a character says one thing but suggests or does the opposite.

  • DRAMATIC IRONY- Extends beyond spoken words and occurs when the audience’s understanding of events surpasses that of its characters.

  • SITUATIONAL IRONY-Occurs when the opposite of what is expected actually happens, going against audience (and often character) expectations.

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