Act 1 & 2
Act 3 & 4
Shakespeare & Theater
Literary Terms & Devices
Quotes
100

He isn't sure about the marriage, but decides it might help stop the fighting between families. 

Who is Friar Laurence? 

100

This character overhears Juliet speaking to herself.

Who is Romeo?

100

Spoken by a lone actor on stage

What is a soliloquy? 

100

Examples include:

Damned saint, honorable villain, beautiful tyrant

What is an oxymoron? 

100

"O, I am fortune's fool!"

Who is Romeo?

200

He threatens to kill anyone caught fighting.

Who is Prince Escalus? 

200

This is Romeo's punishment for killing Tybalt.

What is banishment?

200

A long speech given by an actor on stage with others listening

What is a monologue? 

200

An example would be:

That man is as tall as a house.

What is hyperbole?

200

"Parting is such sweet sorrow..."

Who is Juliet?

300

What wherefore means. 

What is why?

300

These are three of the steps Friar Laurence tells Juliet to do to fake her death.

What is:

1. Pretend to be happy, say you'll marry Paris

2. Be alone at night

3. Drink the sleeping vial

4. Be placed in the crypt

5. A letter will be sent to Romeo

6. Romeo and Juliet will run away to Mantua

300

The number of lines a sonnet has.

What is 14?

300

When the audience knows something that the character(s) on stage do not.

What is dramatic irony?

300

"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."

Who is Mercutio? 

400

Romeo swears to give this up to love Juliet.

What is his name?

400

This character discovers Juliet dead the morning of her wedding to this other character.

Who are the Nurse and Paris?

400

The major division of a Shakespearean play

What is an act?

400
An example would be all the times that Romeo/Juliet envision bad omens or see their own deaths. 

What is foreshadowing? 

400

"Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets!"

Who is Lord Capulet? 
500

This character wants to commit their life to the church, spoiling the plans of Romeo.

Who is Rosaline?

500

This character threatens to send mercenaries after Romeo in Mantua for revenge.

Who is Lady Capulet?

500

The minor division of a Shakespearean play.

What is a scene?

500
A symbol that repeats itself throughout a literary work. In Romeo and Juliet stars would be an example.

What is a motif?

500

"This intrusion shall, now seeming sweet..."

Who is Tybalt?

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