Could I be more Dramatic, Conventions?
This dramatic convention is used to help the actors know the instructions for actions, tone, and delivery.
What is Stage Directions?
This literary element describes a character's personality, appearance, actions, and motivations.
What is Characterization?
This person serves as Benvolio's main character foil, as they often handle conflict aggressively rather than peacefully.
Who is Tybalt?
This memorable scene, set in Juliet's balcony and backyard, features the famous asides spoken by Romeo and Juliet's Soliloquies, where both young lovers profess their love for the stranger they just met.
What is Act 2, Scene 2? (Balcony Scene)
This is the last names of the feuding families.
What are the Montagues and the Capulets?
This dramatic convention is a long, uninterrupted speech given by one character in the presence of others.
What is a Monologue?
This literary element occurs when Character A has contrasting characteristics to Character B.
What is Character Foil?
This person is one of the main Protagonists and can be characterized as young and beautiful, stubborn and impatient, and a follower of their own heart.
Who is Juliet?
This satirical scene, set in front of the Capulets' house, features the character foils Romeo and Mercutio discussing the importance of dreams affecting the real world.
What is Act 1, Scene 4? (Dream Scene)
This is the city and country in which the story is set.
What is Verona, Italy?
This dramatic convention is present when the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
This literary element occurs when the author gives hints/clues about the events that will transpire later in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
This person is characterized as an older and mature father-figure, whose sole purpose is to advise the naive protagonists.
Who is Friar Lawrence
This intense scene, set in Friar Lawrence's cell, features Juliet and Friar Lawrence conspiring and devising a plan to get Juliet to escape the marriage to Paris and to reunite with her love, Romeo.
What is Act 4, Scene 1? (Potion Scene)
These are the ideas/themes that inspired Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. (Must Match at least 1)
What are Vendetta culture, Blood Feuds/Rivarly, Fate vs. Free Will, or Love?
This dramatic convention is a quick remark made to the audience, unheard by other characters, and often denoted with stage directions.
What is an Aside?
This literary element occurs when the story shifts to an earlier time to help explain a character's motivations, background, or current situation.
What is Flashback?
This person is characterized as a mature, mumbling fool, meant to care for their charge and help them make good decisions as they grow.
Who is the Nurse?
This iconic scene, set in the streets of Verona, features the intense foreshadowing of hot weather ending in angry tempers. As a result, we lost the lives of 2 big rivals.
What is Act 3, Scene 1? (Fight to the Death Scene)
This is the name of the stage where Romeo and Juliet was originally performed.
What is the Globe Theater?
This dramatic convention is used to critique society, people, or institutions through humor, irony, or exaggeration.
What is Satire?
This literary element occurs when a secondary storyline runs parallel to the main plot and additionally helps develop the characters, themes, or conflicts.
What is Sub Plot?
This entity is characterized as long-standing, extremely difficult for the citizens, and the drive for the play's central conflict.
What is the Feud?
This famous scene featuring dramatic irony occurs when, at the party, Romeo forgets all about Rosaline as soon as he sees the beautiful Juliet.
What is Act 1, Scene 5? (Party Scene)
This is what Shakespeare used to capture the audience's attention when they came to see his shows. (2 answers)
Fancy Costumes and Elaborate Words.