Literary Elements
Romeo & Juliet Characters
Miscellaneous
The Cask of Amontillado
Grammar
100

Romeo dreams that he has died, but is revived with a kiss from Juliet.  He dies later in the act.

Foreshadowing

100

She loves her son dearly and supports him, but we hear very little from her throughout the play.

Lady Montague

100

According to the speaker, how did Annabel Lee die in the poem of the same name?

The angels sent a wind to chill and kill her.

100

Fortunato does not suspect Montresor’s plans because:

Montresor has remained friendly to him (also, he's a little drunk).
100

Italics or Quotation Marks?

The title of a book

Italics

200

Romeo tries to protect Mercutio by stopping the fight between him and Tybalt, but instead, this action is what actually kills Mercutio.

Irony

200

He is more excited to be married than his prospective bride.

Paris

200

What happened to the speaker's love for Annabel Lee after she died (in the poem Annabel Lee)?

It grew stronger

200

When Montresor praises Luchesi’s skills in wine tasting, he is trying to:

Appeal to Fortunato's pride

200

Does this sentence have parallel structure?

Tris jumped off the train, tripped on the curb, and ran across the street.

Yes

300

 “Without his roe, like a dried herring: flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rhyme her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose.” (Mercutio:  Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 4)  These references to both real and mythological people are an example of________________.

Allusion

300

This character provides comic relief at times with her colorful words, and bad advice to Juliet and others.

The Nurse

300

Which rhetorical appeal or literary device is shown in this quote: “I have a dream … I have a dream … I have a dream”?

Anaphora (repetition)

300

What does Montresor reveal to Fortunato that is a clue to his eventual fate?

A trowel

300

Italics or Quotation Marks?

A short story

Quotation Marks

400

“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,” – from Friar’s speech in Act 2, scene 3.

Personification

400

He despises all Montagues and is angry when Romeo sneaks into the Capulet party.

Tybalt

400

Which rhetorical appeal or literary device is shown in this quote: “When all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands…”

Common Ground

400

Why does the author reveal Montresor’s motto, Nemo me impune lacessit, No one provokes me unpunished?

To hint at what will happen to Fortunato

400

Is the modifier correctly or incorrectly placed in this sentence?

She found an abandoned purse walking along the beach.

Incorrectly

500

Benvolio tries to end fighting whenever he is in public; however, Tybalt is constantly looking for a fight.

Foil

500

He is tired of the constant fighting and is ready to kill those who do not end it.

Prince Escalus

500

Is this line written in iambic pentameter:

We may seriously ask the question

No

500

If Fortunato had not been under the influence of alcohol, he might have wondered why Montresor

Was carrying a trowel

500

Is the modifier correctly or incorrectly placed in the following sentence?

After cleaning the room, the vacuum needed to be put away.

Incorrect

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