Character Clash
"What, draw, and talk of peace? I hate the word, / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
Who speaks these words?
Tybalt
What is the initial cause of the street brawl in Act 1, Scene 1?
a) A disagreement over a business deal
b) Servants of the Montague and Capulet families exchanging insults and drawing swords
c) The Prince ordering the families to fight
d) Romeo trying to start a fight with Tybalt
b) Servants of the Montague and Capulet families exchanging insults and drawing swords
"Then I defy you, stars!"
(Act 5, Scene 1)
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Metaphor
Define monologue.
A speech in a play in which the character speaks to other characters.
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Romeo
Why does Romeo agree to go to the Capulet feast?
a) He wants to cause trouble.
b) He hopes to see Rosaline.
c) Lord Montague forces him to go.
d) He heard there would be free food.
b) He hopes to see Rosaline.
"Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday / Or never after look me in the face."
(Act 3, Scene 5)
"Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."
Simile
Define soliloquy.
A speech in play in which the character is alone on stage revealing their inner thoughts.
"Younger than she are happy mothers made."
Paris
What prevents Friar John from delivering Friar Laurence's letter to Romeo?
a) He gets lost on the way to Mantua.
b) Romeo refuses to see him.
c) He is quarantined due to a contagious sickness.
d) Balthasar intercepts the letter.
c) He is quarantined due to a contagious sickness.
"A plague o' both your houses!"
(Act 3, Scene 1)
"Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops."
Personification
Define iambic pentameter.
A line of poetry that has ten syllables with an unstressed/stressed pattern.
"For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Prince
What is Juliet's age at the time of the play's events?
a) 16
b) 18
c) Almost 14
d) 15
c) Almost 14
"For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
(Act 5, Scene 3)
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
Metaphor OR Personification
Define rhyme scheme.
The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.
"A man, young lady! lady, such a man / As all the world—why, he's a man of wax."
Nurse
Where does Romeo go after being banished from Verona for killing Tybalt?
a) Mantua
b) Venice
c) Paris
d) Rome
a) Mantua
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet."
(Act 2, Scene 2)
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Pun
Which two acts have prologues in them?
Acts 1 & 2
"Take thou this vial, being then in bed, / And this distilled liquor thou shalt drink off..."
Friar Lawrence
Who tells Juliet about Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment?
a) The Nurse
b) Lord Capulet
c) Lady Capulet
d) Benvolio
a) The Nurse
"My only love sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
(Act 1, Scene 5)
"Parting is such sweet sorrow, / That I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Oxymoron
Identify the rhyme scheme of this stanza:
Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew,
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs;
But all in vain, no light from his fair view.
ABCB
"Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow"
Benvolio
Who is present when Juliet awakens in the Capulet tomb?
a) Only Romeo
b) Only Friar Laurence
c) Romeo and Paris
d) Friar Laurence and Romeo
d) Friar Laurence and Romeo
"These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder / Which, as they kiss, consume."
(Act 2, Scene1 6)
"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."
Foreshadowing
Which of the following lines from Romeo and Juliet is written in iambic pentameter?
a) "A dog of the house of Montague moves me."
b) "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
c) "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow."
d) "What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word."
D