Characters 1
Characters 2
Literary Devices
Lines From the Play
Wild Card
100
This character kills herself and is in love with Romeo.
Juliet
100
This character is in love with Rosaline during the begining of the play.
Romeo
100
What is the term for the literary device that hints at what will happen later on in the play/story?
Foreshadowing
100
In the following line, what does the word "baggage" mean? "Hang thee baggage! Disobedient wretch!"
A disgraceful woman.
100
Who wrote the play?
Shakespeare
200
This character is Juliet's confidant, but also betrays Juliet when she suggests Juliet marry Paris.
The Nurse
200
This is Romeo's confidant, the priest that married Romeo and Juliet to end the feud, and the person that gave Juliet the poison.
Friar Laurence
200
What is the term for a comparison that does not use "like" or "as"?
Metaphor
200
Read the following lines and tell me who is speaking and what these lines mean: "Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? ...Romeo, doff thy name, Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet And for thy name, which is no part of thee, Take all myself.”
Juliet; She doesn't want Romeo to be a Montague
200
Which word does not describe The Nurse's personality: A. loving B. sophisticated C. talkative D. energetic
B. sophisticated
300
This character advises Romeo to move on from Rosaline.
Benvolio
300
This character sees Romeo at the Capulet family ball, later challenging him to a duel. This character is Juliet's cousin.
Tybalt
300
What is the term for a comparison that uses the words "like" or "as"?
Simile
300
As Friar Lawrence is gardening, he states that: “[t]wo such opposed kings encamp them still in man as well as herbs—grace and rude will." What is saying about both humans and plants?
They can both be good or evil.
300
What is the literary device term for when an inhuman object is given human like qualities?
Personification
400
This character warns the Capulets and the Montagues that if they fight again he will kill them.
Prince Escalus
400
This character is killed when his friend tries to stop a fight with Juliet's cousin.
Mercutio
400
What is the term for when one text references another text?
Allusion
400
Read the following lines and tell me who is speaking, what these lines mean, and the literary device used: “… a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ‘tis enough”
Mercutio; He is being sarcastic about being stabbed; Irony.
400
Juliet was born on the eve of what night? How old does this make her?
Lammas Eve; 13
500
Juliet refuses to marry this person because she is already married.
Paris
500
This character first says Juliet can choose who she marries, but later turns verbally violent when she refuses to marry Paris.
Lord Capulet
500
What is the term for when two unlike things are put together in a phrase or sentence?
Oxymoron
500
Read the following lines and tell me who is speaking, what these lines mean, and the literary device used: “you shall find me a grave man”
Mercutio; He is referencing his death; Pun.
500
The phrase “a pair of star-cross’d lovers” suggests all of the following EXCEPT: A. a long relationship. B. a doomed romance. C. an unhappy ending. D. a belief in astrology.
A. a long relationship
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