Common Knowledge
Who Said It?
(Act IV!)
Who Said It?
(Act V!)
Name that Lit Term
(Part 1!)
Name that Lit Term! (Part 2!)
100
Name all who die in Acts IV and V
Who is Romeo, Juliet, Paris, and Lady Montague?
100
"Hold daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperation an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it; And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy."
Who is Friar Lawrence?
100
"Why I descend into this bed of death Is partly to behold my lady's face, But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger A precious ring, a ring that I must use In dear employment: therefore hence, be gone:"
Who is Romeo?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as."
What is a Simile?
100
When the audience knows something the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
200
How does Juliet fake her death?
What is Friar Lawrence's potion?
200
"O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day, That ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day! O day! O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this: O woeful day, O woeful day!"
Who is the Nurse?
200
"Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood, The letter was not nice, but full of charge Of dear import, and the neglecting it May do much danger. Friar John, go hence; Get me an iron crow and bring it straight Unto my cell."
Who is Friar Lawrence?
200
Over exaggeration Ex. "Tis twenty years til then."
What is a Hyperbole?
200
Pairs of contradictory words.
What is an Oxymoron?
300
What is the cause of Romeo's and Juliet's death?
What is poison and a dagger to the heart?
300
"Where I have learn'd me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To you and your behests, and am enjoin'd By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here, To beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am ever ruled by you."
Who is Juliet?
300
"O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips; Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative."
Who is Juliet?
300
Reference to myth, religion, pop culture, etc. within literature
What is an Allusion?
300
Contradictory statement(s)
What is a Paradox
400
Why does Romeo think Juliet is dead?
What is an undelivered letter?
400
"Ready to go, but never to return. O son, the night before thy wedding-day Hath Death lain with thy wife: see, there she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's."
Who is Lord Capulet?
400
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Who is the Prince?
400
Reference to someone absent or dead as if present or alive.
What is an Apostrophe?
400
A speech delivered while the speaker is alone.
What is a Soliloquy?
500
Who arrives at the crypt before Romeo?
Who is Paris?
500
"O me, O me! My child, my only life, Revive, look up, or I will die with thee. Help, help! call help."
Who is Lady Capulet?
500
"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath: What further woe conspires against mine age?"
Who is Lord Montague?
500
Replacing word with common reference Ex. "Sword" for military power
What is a Metonymy?
500
An extended, descriptive metaphor.
What is Conceit?
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