Literary Devices
"As is the night before some festival,"
What is a simile?
"Get me some aqua vitae,"
What is get me some alcohol?
"It was the nightingale, and not thy lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear."
Who is Juliet?
This person secretly marries Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
The setting of Romeo and Juliet.
What is Verona?
"Affection makes him false, he speaks not true."
What is personification?
"A plague a both your houses! I am sped.
Is he gone and hath nothing?"
What is I am dying all because of the family feud?
"Monday! Ha, ha! Well, Wednsday is too soon.
A Thursday let it be--a Thursday tell her,
She shall be married to this noble earl."
Who is Lord Capulet?
This person informs Juliet of Tybalt's death.
Who is the Nurse?
The two birds that represent day and night.
What is the lark that represents day and the nightingale that represents night?
"Towards Phoebus' lodging! Such a wagoneer
As Phaëthon would whip you to the west,"
What is an allusion?
"There's no trust,
No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,
All forsworn, all naught, all disemblers.
Ah, where's my man?"
What is men suck?
''Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man,''
Who is Friar Lawrence?
This person killed Mercutio.
Who is Tybalt?
This is where Romeo want and hid before he left Mantua.
What is Friar Lawrence's cell?
"Flies may do this but I from this must fly;"
What is a pun?
"Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable,
Go get thee to thy love, as we decreed,
Ascend to her chamber, hence and comfort her."
What is don't die miserable, go to Juliet and comfort her?
"Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn
The gallant, young, and noble gentlemen,
The County Paris, at Saint Peter's Church,
Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride."
Who is Lady Capulet?
The man that Juliet's parents wanted her to marry.
Who is Paris?
The reason for Juliet losing trust in the Nurse.
What is the Nurse says to marry Paris?
"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so far a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelica!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!"
What is oxmorons?
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale,"
What is I think you look dead?
"O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead!
That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,
Which too untimely here did scorn the earth."
Who is Benvolio?
The name of the Prince.
Who is Prince Ecalus?
This is where Romeo was exiled to.
What is Mantua?