Characters pt. 1
Characters pt. 2
Quotes
Literary Devices
Events
100

The priest who secretly marries the two lovers and creates a faulty plan for their reunion

Friar Lawrence

100

The male protagonist of the play

Romeo

100

"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

Friar Lawrence

100

A joke that is based on a play-on-words

Pun

100

What is outlawed in Verona at the beginning of the play?

Civil brawls / public fighting

200

Juliet's bad-tempered and aggressive cousin

Tybalt

200

Juliet's caregiver and confidant

The Nurse

200

"My only love sprung from my only hate!"

Juliet

200

The meter in which most of Shakespeare's texts are written

Iambic pentameter

200

Where do Romeo and Juliet get engaged?

Juliet's balcony

300

Romeo's peaceful, honest, and loyal cousin

Benvolio

300

Romeo's witty, bold, and uncensored best friend

Mercutio

300

"Thus with a kiss I die."

Romeo

300

Two characters who are opposites are paired together so that their contrasting traits are more obvious

Foil

300

What do Lord Capulet and Lord Montague agree to build at the end of the play?

Gold statues of their children

400

He fails to send an important letter because he is quarantining during the plague

Friar John

400

He sells Romeo an illegal poison

The apothecary

400

"These times of woe afford no time to woo.”

Paris

400

A pair of words or concepts that are opposite, thus creating a contradiction

Oxymoron

400

Lord Capulet moves the wedding up from ______ to _______.

Thursday; Wednesday

500

The speaker of the prologue

Chorus

500

Romeo's servant

Balthasar

500

"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

The prince

500

A long speech delivered by one character to the audience only

Soliloquy

500

In order, name the six characters who die during the play.

1. Mercutio

2. Tybalt

3. Paris

4. Romeo

5. Juliet

6. Lady Montague

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