Romeo and Juliet
Dramatic Elements
Figurative Language
Who Said It?
Miscellaneous
100
This character is Juliet's motherly caretaker and friend, but is not Juliet's actual mother.
Who is the Nurse?
100
The term used to describe the words above in italics.
What are stage directions?
100
Type of figurative language that directly compares two things - "He was a boulder, firm and unmovable."
What is a metaphor?
100
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
-Act 2, Scene 2
Who is Juliet?
100
The style/age of English that Romeo and Juliet is written in.
What is Elizabethan English?
200
The name of the major antagonist in Romeo and Juliet
Who is Tybalt?
200
The job title of someone who writes a drama (could be one of two).
What is a playwright?
or
What is a dramatist?
200
An extreme exaggeration. "I literally would rather eat glass than date you."
...Savage.
What is a hyperbole?
200
What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
Have at thee, coward!
-Act 1, Scene 1
Who is Tybalt?
200
The name of the city that Romeo was banished to
What is Mantua?
300
This character provided most comic relief throughout the play
Who is Mercutio?
300
Name correct order of narrative plot structure in a 5-Act play. (Act 1 is the... Act 2 is the... etc)
Act 1 = exposition
Act 2 = rising action
Act 3 = climax
Act 4 = falling action
Act 5 = resolution
300
This is an example of this type of figurative language.
"That newborn baby is pretty ugly."
What is an oxymoron?
300
A plague o' both your houses!
They have made worms' meat of me!
(Act 3 Scene 1)
Who is Mercutio?
300
The type of bird that Romeo and Juliet hear singing outside the balcony after their night together.
What is a lark?
400
The reason that Friar Lawrence's plan to reunite Romeo and Juiet fails. (Looking for a character name AND what happened to that character.)
Friar John was quarantined with sick people and could not deliver the letter to Romeo.
400
A brief remark a character makes to the audience rather than to other characters.
What is an aside?
400
Complete the pun.
Mercutio, after being stabbed: "Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a ________ man."
What is "grave" or "a grave man"?
400
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
-Act 2, Scene 3
Who is Friar Lawrence?
400
A person who prepares and sells medicines and drugs... Romeo buys the poison from this type of person.
What is an apothecary?
500
The name of House Montague's servant *and* the name of House Capulet's servant (say which is which).
Who are Balthazar (Montague) and Samson (Capulet)?
500
A long, dramatic speech given by one character to one or more other characters on stage.
What is a monologue?
500
Example of this type of figurative language: "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon." -Act 2, Scene 2
What is personification?
500
Then she is well, and nothing can be ill:
Her body sleeps in Capel's monument...
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault,
And presently took post to tell it you:
-Act 5, Scene 1
Who is Balthazar?
500
The full, original title of the poem that Shakespeare based "The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" on.
What is "The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet"?