“Give Liberty unto thine eyes. Examine other beauties.”
pairs of contradictory words
What is an oxymoron
Where Romeo and Juliet takes place
What is Verona, Italy
"What's in a name? The thing which we call a rose would smell just as sweet if it had any other name."
Who is Juliet
This is 14 line love poem
What is a sonnet
"But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Who is Romeo
A speech delivered by a character alone and unaware of an audience to allow people to know what he or she is thinking or feeling
What is a soliloquy
He kills Mercutio which results in Romeo's deadly revenge.
Who is Tybalt
”Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the County.”
Who is the Nurse
The rhythm Shakespeare applies to lines in his play
What is Iambic pentameter
"No, it's not as deep as a well, or as wide as a church door. But it's enough, it will serve.
Ask for me tomorrow and you'll find me a grave man."
Who is Mercutio
The humorous (usually) use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time.
What is a pun
After Romeo and Juliet meet, how much time lapses before the wedding ceremony?
What is a few hours
"Or if I wake, won't I be driven mad, closed in with all these hideous fears, and play...with my ancestors' bones..."
Who is Juliet
Two rhyming lines
What are heroic couplets
"Tybalt wanted to kill you, but you killed him. You are fortunate. The law that threatened your death became your friend and gave you exile. You are fortunate."
Who is Friar Lawrence
The repetition of consonant sounds.
What is alliteration
When Romeo discovers Juliet in the Capulet's catacomb, he drinks what liquid
What is poison
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen
Who is Lady Capulet
Unrhyming poetry- often written in iambic pentameter
What is blank verse
"Take this bottle, and when you're in bed, drink this distilled liquor. Immediately, a cold and quieting liquid shall run through all your veins. Your pulse will stop. There'll be no warmth or breath to prove that you're alive."
Who is Friar Lawrence
When the audience is aware of something that is happening, but the characters are unaware.
When Juliet wakes up, she is distraught and uses what to kill herself?
What is a dagger
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed... Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days
Who is the Nurse
Plain spoken words in the play are often reflective of this condition.
What is a low social class