The priest who secretly marries the two lovers and creates a faulty plan for their reunion
Friar Lawrence
The male protagonist of the play
Romeo
"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."
Friar Lawrence
A joke that is based on a play-on-words
Pun
What is outlawed in Verona at the beginning of the play?
Civil brawls / public fighting
Juliet's bad-tempered and aggressive cousin
Tybalt
Juliet's caregiver and confidant
The Nurse
"My only love sprung from my only hate!"
Juliet
The meter in which most of Shakespeare's texts are written
Iambic pentameter
Where do Romeo and Juliet get engaged?
Juliet's balcony
Romeo's peaceful, honest, and loyal cousin
Benvolio
Romeo's witty, bold, and uncensored best friend
Mercutio
"Thus with a kiss I die."
Romeo
Two characters who are opposites are paired together so that their contrasting traits are more obvious
Foil
What do Lord Capulet and Lord Montague agree to build at the end of the play?
Gold statues of their children
He fails to send an important letter because he is quarantining during the plague
Friar John
He sells Romeo an illegal poison
The apothecary
"These times of woe afford no time to woo.”
Paris
A pair of words or concepts that are opposite, thus creating a contradiction
Oxymoron
Lord Capulet moves the wedding up from ______ to _______.
Thursday; Wednesday
The speaker of the prologue
Chorus
Romeo's servant
Balthasar
"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
The prince
A long speech delivered by one character to the audience only
Soliloquy
In order, name the six characters who die during the play.
1. Mercutio
2. Tybalt
3. Paris
4. Romeo
5. Juliet
6. Lady Montague