Lit Terms
Quotations
Montague, Capulet, or Neutral?
Plot
Random
100
An indirect comparison between two different things which does not use the words like or as
What is a metaphor?
100
________ said this line to _______: "Give me my Romeo: and when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night..."
What is Juliet to Romeo?
100
The Nurse
What is a Capulet?
100
The deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt and the banishment of Romeo would most likely be seen as the ________ of the play.
What is the climax or turning point?
100
Name the two cities in which this play is set.
What is Verona and Mantua?
200
A type of poem that is composed of 14 lines and is written in iambic pentameter
What is a sonnet?
200
__________ says the following to _________: "wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."
What is Friar Laurence to Romeo?
200
Tybalt
What is a Capulet?
200
Romeo's decision to attend the Capulet ball is most likely seen as the __________ of the play.
What is exciting force or exposition?
200
Give the correct order for Part VIII on your review sheet.
What is A, C, D, E, B?
300
When the audience knows something that the characters on stage do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
"A plague on both your houses"
Who is Mercutio?
300
Benviolio
What is a Montague?
300
True or False: When the Nurse tells Juliet the news of the duel, Juliet first thinks Romeo is dead.
What is true?
300
"brawling love" "loving hate" and "heavy lightness" are all examples of which literary device?
What is oxymoron or paradox?
400
Romeo and Mercutio serve as ____________ for each other because they have opposite beliefs about love.
What is foils?
400
"A man young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world--why he's a man of wax."
Who is the Nurse?
400
Friar Laurence
What is neutral?
400
Romeo is afraid to speak to Juliet when he first sees her at the party because he knows she is a Capulet.
What is false?
400
Which character was not seen on stage, but was mentioned a few times in the play?
Who is Rosaline?
500
When a character gives a long speech on stage and others do not hear him or her speak.
What is a soliloquy?
500
"Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath. Hath had no power, yet upon thy beauty. Thou are not conquered."
Who is Romeo?
500
Sampson and Gregory
What is Capulet?
500
Which is not an example of foreshadowing in the play? a. Friar: "wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast" b. Juliet: "I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised." c. Nurse: "I think it best you married with the County." d. Benvolio: "I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. The day is hot, the Capulet's aboard, and if we meet we will not scape a brawl."
What is C?
500
Paraphrase and explain the following line: "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name!"
What is O Romeo, Romeo why do you have to be called romeo? Why must you be a Montague?
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