Dramatic Terms
Plot Points
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Vocabulary!!
Vocabulary again! (Though you may
find it vile!)
100
How most of the tension is built in this story. One example is how Romeo plans his suicide because he believes Juliet is dead, which builds tension for viewers who know she is still alive.
What is Dramatic Irony?
100
The big problem with Romeo Montague falling for Juliet Capulet (besides the fact that he's an emotional disaster!)
What is their families' feud?
100
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Who is Romeo?
100
Having a yellow, sickly complexion.
What is sallow?
100
Clever; sly; tricky.
What is a cunning?
200
What we find in the first line here, saying Paris' face is a book: Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
What is a metaphor?
200
The funny guy who steps in when Romeo won't fight Tybalt.
What is Mercutio?
200
Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.
Who is Juliet?
200
People who go against accepted beliefs (especially religious beliefs).
What are heretics?
200
the definition of transgression.
What is sin or wrongdoing?
300
What we find in the second part of the line, telling us beauty is a writer: Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
What is personification?
300
What Juliet's wedding celebration turns into. (And nobody has ever been so happy to attend their own!)
What is a funeral?
300
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!
Who is Mercutio?
300
What am I saying this game will do if I say playing along will augment your knowledge?
What is enlarge or increase it?
300
What you gave me when i told you there were two vocabulary sections (it means complaint).
What is a grievance?
400
It's what this rant by the whiny moron Romeo on the two-faced nature of love is filled with. Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
What are oxymorons?
400
The scoundrel who shouldn't have sold Romeo any poison.
Who is the apothecary?
400
will be deaf to pleading and excuses; Nor tears nor prayers shall purchase out abuses: Therefore use none: let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he's found, that hour is his last. Bear hence this body and attend our will: Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
Who is the Prince?
400
Harmful or dangerous.
What is pernicious?
400
The missing word in this statement: paying attention in class and studying will help you ___________ a good grade.
What is procure?
500
Repeating the initial consonant sound, like the title of the next category over.
What is alliteration?
500
It's the really sick reason Friar Laurence's letters never got to Romeo.
What is the Plague?
500
Thy love did read by rote and could not spell. But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancour to pure love.
Who is Friar Laurence?
500
Future generations, or those who come after us.
What is posterity?
500
Another word for what you may prove to be if you stand out among the other students by answering this question.
What is predominant?
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