The name of the girl Romeo is in love with at the start of the play.
Who is Rosaline?
100
The primary 'comic relief' character in Act II.
Who is the nurse?
100
The most aggressive and experienced one of the duelists in Act III, Scene I.
Who is Tybalt?
100
The place where Romeo is forced to live during Act IV.
Where is Mantua?
100
The reason Romeo was unaware of the Friar's cunning plan.
What is an outbreak of the plague that prevented the Friar's letter from reaching Romeo?
200
The plot device Shakespeare uses to help the less intelligent members of the audience follow and understand the story.
What is the Prologue?
200
The character who delivers the following line: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?"
Who is Romeo?
200
In relation to the rest of the play, what word would you use to describe Act III, and the events that occur during it?
What is the climax?
200
The method the Friar uses to inform Romeo of his plan to reunite him with Juliet.
What is a letter?
200
The name of Romeo's page or assistant.
Who is Balthasar?
300
The character who establishes a royal edict, banning the Capulets and Montagues from fighting one another under penalty of death.
Who is Prince Escalus?
300
The reason Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.
What is to end the family feud?
300
The reason Romeo kills Tybalt.
What is to avenge his friend's death.
300
Juliet's actions after she says the following line: "Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink - I drink to thee".
What is consumes a sleeping potion?
300
Given what the audience already knows about the play, Romeo's line: "then I defy you stars!" is an example of which poetic technique?
What is dramatic irony?
400
An offensive gesture of the period, designed to provoke someone in to a confrontation.
What does "bite my thumb" mean?
400
Juliet's line "That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet" is an example of this poetic technique.
What is a metaphor?
400
How you would describe Romeo's actions in Act III, Scene III (the scene when he crumbles to his knees and threatens to "sack the hateful mansion").
What is melodramatic, brash, and impulsive.
400
When Capulet says "Send for the County" and Juliet replies with "I met the youthful lord at Lawrence's cell, And gave him what becomed love I might", Juliet's response is an example of this technique.
What is double meaning?
400
The positive aspect that followed the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet.
What is the cessation of the family feud and the restoration of peace in Verona?
500
The character who delivers the lines: "True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain".
Who is Mercutio?
500
The technique demonstrated in the Friar's lines: "These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die".
What is foreshadowing?
500
Who says the line "Out, you green-sickness carrion! out you baggage! You tallow-face!" and what is that line an example of?
Who is Lord Capulet, and the superiority of control that men had over women, and father's had over their daughters.
500
The reason that Lord and Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and Paris believe was responsible for Juliet's 'suicide'.
What is Tybalt's death?
500
The symbolic gesture offered by Lord Capulet and Lord Montague to one another at the conclusion of the play, to represent the end of the feud and lasting peace.