It's Lit!
When an author places words or phrases that are direct opposites (but are not contradictory) in the same sentence to achieve a contrasting effect
What is antithesis?
Who says the following lines and when?
"Three civil brawls bred of an airy word have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets"
Who is the Prince? When is Act 1 Scene 1, after the fight between the Montagues and Capulets?
The reason Rosaline has not reciprocated Romeo's love
What is she is a nun and sworn to live chaste?
The time period that Shakespeare wrote in
What is the Renaissance?
The definition of dramatic irony
What is: when the audience knows something that the characters do not know?
Who says the following quote and when?
"My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars... He that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail!"
Who is Romeo? Right before Act 1 Scene 5 as they are about to go into the Capulet party?
The reason that Benvolio wants Romeo to go to the Capulet party
What is to examine other beauties? (Check out other girls)
True or false: Shakespeare was born poor and never received any formal education. (No stealing on this question)
What is false? (He was middle class and received SOME education, just nothing past grammar school.)
The literary device that is shown in the italicized lines:
You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins
What is a metaphor?
Who says the following lines and when?
"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, whose mannerly devotion is this"
Who is Juliet? When is Act 1 Scene 5 at the party during her first conversation with Romeo?
Name a reason why Shakespeare starts the play with the characters of the servants
What is to show how deep the Mont & Cap feud runs? What is for comic relief?
Fill in the blank:
During Shakespeare's time, children were considered _____ and could be sold for pigs, for example. Wealthy families often had _____ ______ (2 words) raise their children.
The literary device used in the following lines:
I will thrust Montagues maids to the wall and cut off their maidenheads
What is double entendre?
Who says the following lines and when?
"Go to, you are a saucy boy!"
Who is Capulet? In Act 1 Scene 5 to Tybalt when Tybalt wants to fight Romeo?
What is Romeo's tragic flaw?
What is his rashness (tendency to rush into things)?
The name of Shakespeare's wife
Who is Anne Hathaway?
Name one of the oxymorons that Romeo uses when he is complaining about Rosaline in Act 1 Scene 1.
What is...
Heavy lightness
Serious vanity
Brawling love
Loving hate
Feather of lead
Bright smoke
Cold fire
Sick health
Still-waking sleep
Who says the following quote and when?
"Well think of marriage now. Younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers."
Who is Lady Capulet? In Act 1 Scene 3 when she is talking to Juliet about Paris's proposal?
Name the two things that Romeo compares Juliet to in his first lines to her.
A shrine
A saint
The nickname for the lower-class people who sat near the stage at the Globe Theater.
What are groundlings?