Miscellaneous: Vocabulary, Terms and Elements of Drama
100
In Scene ii, Juliet stands at her window lamenting (feeling sorrowful about) this character's last name.
Who is Romeo?
100
"O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,
As a winged messenger of heaven."
Who is Juliet?
100
Tell what is being personified and what human characteristics are being applied:
"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,"
Personified: Morn and night
Human Characteristics: grey-eyed, smiles, frowning
100
A character who contrasts or is opposite to another character and serves to highlight/intensify the other character's traits.
What is a Dramatic or Character Foil?
100
Giving human-like qualities to something that is NOT human.
What is personification?
200
Agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because this person feels the marriage might end the feud between the families.
Who is Friar Laurence? (Lawrence)
200
"Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face."
Who is Nurse?
200
Tell what is being personified and what human characteristics are being applied:
"And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels"
Personified: Darkness
Human Characteristics: reels (like a drunkard)
200
Though old, this foil to Juliet is quite capable of verbal play and teasing.
Who is the Nurse?
200
This literary term helps to deepen the audience's involvement with the characters by keeping them wondering with hints at what might happen.
What is foreshadowing?
300
Juliet says:
"What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot. Nor arm, nor face. What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Describe what she means by these words.
Romeo's last name is not a vital part of him:
- it is unimportant to Juliet
- she loves him (and would love him) regardless.
300
"A gentleman, nurse, that loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month."
Who is Mercurio?
300
Tell what is being personified and what human characteristics are being applied:
"Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye"
Personified: Sun
Human Characteristics: (burning) eye
300
This character's cautious attitude contrasts with Romeo's impulsive desire to be married.
Who is Friar Laurence?
(Another might be Juliet because she is cautious at first but becomes impulsive with Romeo shortly after)
300
Another term for foreshadowing (something that predicts what will happen later in the play).
What is foreboding?
400
When Romeo tells Friar Laurence about meeting and falling in love with Juliet, this is the FIRST thing Friar Laurence does.
What is refuses to listen to Romeo OR teases Romeo for forgetting Rosaline so quickly?
400
"He fight as you sing pricksong--keeps time, distance, and proportion; he rests his minum rests, one two, and the third in your bosom! The very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist!"
Who is Tybalt?
400
Tell what is being personified and what human characteristics are being applied:
"The day to cheer the night's dark dew to dry"
Personified: day
Human Characteristics: to cheer
400
If Mercutio is quick-witted and ever-lively, this foil (who Mercutio is often seen with in many scenes) could be viewed as straightforward, sincere, and rather subdued. Name this character.
Who is Benvolio?
400
Though most of Act II does not follow this format, Romeo and Juliet is this type of play.
What is a tragedy?
500
In the scene outside Juliet's window, Romeo says that since it is night, he fears that his meeting with Juliet is only a what?
What is a dream?
500
"Through his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all men's; and for a hand and foot, and a body, though they be not to be talked on, yet they are past compare."
Who is Romeo?
500
Tell what is being personified and what human characteristics are being applied:
"The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb."
Personified: earth
Human Characteristics: nature's mother
500
This occurs when the audience know something important in a play that the characters in the play do not know, this often builds suspense.
Extra points: given an example of this from from Act II.
What is dramatic irony?
500
A conversation had with oneself and a conversation spoken aloud between two people.
What is monologue (mono- means 1) and dialogue (di- means two or more)?