Act I
Who does Peter ask to read Capulet's guest list?
Romeo
Who challenged Romeo to a duel?
Tybalt
What is Romeo's punishment from the Prince?
Exile
Who all dies in the last scene of the play?
Paris, Romeo and Juliet
Who dies of grief over Romeo's exile?
Lady Montague
Who first discovers there are Montagues at Capulet's party?
Tybalt
When Juliet says “wherefore art thou Romeo?” what is she asking?
"Why are you Romeo?"
Who dies in scene i?
Mercutio and Tybalt
In act V, Balthazar appears to fulfill the role of whom?
Benvolio
Who are the two strongest parental figures in the play?
Nurse and Friar
"Bitter", "intense" and "frustrated" are adjectives that best describe what monologue?
Mercutio's Queen Mab Monologue
Whose major role entails revealing and/or relaying information?
Benvolio
Juliet believing Romeo is dead although we, the audience, knows he is not is an example of what type of irony?
Dramatic
What are two of Juliet's fears, as expressed in her "farewell, God knows when we shall meet again" soliloquy?
Waking up the next morning, because the potion did not work, and having to marry Paris.
Friar poisoning her
Suffocating in the Capulet vault
Seeing ghosts
What does D.O.L.T.S. stand for?
Death
Order
Love
Transformation
Sovereignty
How do Romeo and Juliet metaphorically describe themselves in their first conversation?
Romeo = Pilgrim
Juliet = Saint
What makes male characters more irritable and prone to violence?
The sun
Whose death symbolizes the death of comedy?
Mercutio's death
What is one thing Shakespeare communicates about the repetition of language, especially in act IV, scene v, when Juliet's family finds her "dead"?
Inform us of dramatic change
Create emotion
Create emphasis
Who said the following?
“For never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Prince
What is one purpose of the prologue?
To provide a preview of what will occur
To set the scene
To give additional information that advances the plot
What does liminal mean?
a space between two spaces
Whose death contributes to Romeo’s character development, in that it makes Romeo see the world as those around him?
Mercutio's death
While attempting to open the Capulet tomb, Romeo says “thou detestable maw/thou womb of death/ gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth/ thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open/ and, in despite, I’ll cram thee with more food”
What THREE literary devices are being used?
Personification, Imagery and Metaphor
What is the name of the concept that refers to parts of or characters within a text that offset more serious sections?
Comic relief