The final two lines of every sonnet that explain the importance of the poem.
What is the couplet?
100
One of the characters who provides comic relief in the play; believes that dreams are for "idle brains."
Who is Mercutio?
100
These two important events fall on the same date for Shakespeare.
What are his birthday and his death day?
100
"Part fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
Who is Benvolio?
100
Romeo and Juliet was the first play to fall under both of these genres.
What is comedy and tragedy?
200
Iambic pentameter reveals these two characteristics about each line of sonnet verse.
What is the rhythm and the meter: unstressed syllables followed by stressed; and 5 iambs per line (10 syllables)?
200
One of the characters who provides comic relief in the play; can remember Juliet's birthday "unto an hour."
Who is the nurse?
200
The name of Shakespeare's theater, named for its shape.
What is the Globe?
200
"Let two more summers wither in their pride ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Who is Lord Capulet?
200
Shakespeare wrote and lived during this time period.
What is Elizabethan?
300
When the ending syllables are not an exact rhyme in sound, but look like rhyming syllables.
What is slant rhyme?
300
The ruler of Verona, who threatens both the Montagues and the Capulets.
Who is the Prince?
300
Shakespeare's wife.
Who is Anne Hathaway?
300
"Did my heart love til now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty til this night!"
Who is Romeo?
300
This group of people were not allowed to act on stage.
Who are women?
400
The two people whom Shakespeare addresses in his sonnet sequence.
Who are the young man and the dark lady?
400
The most obvious antagonist in the play; he hates all Montagues.
Who is Tybalt?
400
Shakespeare had this number of children; name at least one of them.
What is 3? Who were Judith, Susanna, and Hamnet?
400
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."
Who is the Chorus?
400
These are four of Shakespeare's other plays.
What are King Lear, Hamlet, MacBeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Othello, etc.?
500
The number of sonnets that Shakespeare wrote in total.
What is 154?
500
A character who embodies the problem with women marrying and having children too young.
Who is Lady Capulet?
500
Two reasons why many people believe Shakespeare did not write his own plays.
What are: 1) he only received a grammar school-level education, 2) it would have been nearly impossibly for one man to write such a volume of works, 3) we do not have original editions of his plays?
500
"I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall."
Who is Tybalt?
500
When Romeo says "O heavy lightness, serious vanity, O brawling love, O loving hate, feather of lead, bright smoke"... he is displaying this literary term.