Dramatic Terms
What is the term for a speech made by a character alone on stage to reveal inner thoughts?
What is a soliloquy?
What family is Juliet from?
Who are the Capulets?
What does Romeo fear before going to the Capulet ball?
That fate will lead to his death.
“A plague o’ both your houses!”
Mercutio
What is the pun in “You shall find me a grave man”?
Grave = serious and dead.
What kind of irony is it when the audience knows something a character does not?
What is dramatic irony?
Why is Romeo banished from Verona?
For killing Tybalt.
Why doesn’t Romeo want to fight Tybalt at first?
He is married to Juliet.
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Juliet
“Parting is such sweet sorrow” is an example of what?
oxymoron
When Mercutio calls Cupid the “blind bow-boy,” what device is used?
What is an allusion?
Why does Juliet fake her death?
To escape marrying Paris.
Why does the Friar scold Romeo in Act II?
For being inconstant in love.
“These violent delights have violent ends.”
Friar Laurence
Juliet’s long speech while waiting for Romeo is an example of what?
soliloquy
What device is used in Juliet’s speech: “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!”
What is an oxymoron?
What happens to Paris at Juliet’s tomb?
Romeo kills him in a duel.
What motivates Juliet to take the potion?
Her willingness to die rather than marry Paris.
“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”
Romeo
“Star-crossed lovers” is an example of what theme?
destiny
What is the literary purpose of the Prologue in Romeo and Juliet?
What is to foreshadow the deaths of the lovers?
What punishment do the families face for their feud?
The deaths of their children.
What does Romeo mean when he says, “Then I defy you, stars!”
He’s going to take fate into his own hands.
“Younger than she are happy mothers made.”
Paris
Why does Juliet question Romeo’s name?
She believes names are meaningless labels.