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What is the main setting of the play?
Verona, Italy
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What is a monologue?
a prolonged talk or discourse by a single speaker, especially one dominating or monopolizing a conversation. I.e. Friar Lawrence explaining the entire truth to the remaining living characters.
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Who becomes angry when Juliet refuses to marry Paris on Thursday?
Lord Capulet
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"I am fortune's fool!" Hint: right after a death
Romeo
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How does Romeo react when he hears his punishment of banishment instead of death?
He acts immature. He thinks there is no world without Juliet or Verona. He is not thankful he is alive.
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Where is the place Romeo and Juliet get married?
Friar Lawrence' Church/Cell
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What is a soliloquy?
an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play. I.e. when Juliet is speaking her loving thoughts of Romeo before she knows he is there.
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Who betrays Juliet by saying she should give in and marry Paris?
Nurse
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"Now, by Saint Peter's Church and Peter too, He shall not make me there a joyful bride."
Juliet
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Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter is known as...
blank verse
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Where is Romeo banished after he kills Tybalt?
Mantua
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What is dramatic irony?
This is when the audience knows something but the characters do not. I.e. Juliet is not dead, she just appears it.
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Who taunts Tybalt and provokes a fight?
Mercutio
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"What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
Tybalt
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When Mercutio says, "...tomorrow you shall find me a grave man" as he is dying, is a good example of what literary element?
pun
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Where was Juliet buried?
Capulet tomb
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What is an oxymoron?
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. I.e. at the end of the famous balcony scene, when Romeo is leaving, Juliet says "parting is such sweet sorrow"
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Who's message does not get delivered to Romeo in Mantua due to being quarantined in Verona?
Friar John
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"O calm dishonourable, vile submission! Alla stoccata carries it away."
Mercutio
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What is Friar Lawrence's warning to Romeo and Juliet when he marries them?
"Violent delights have violent ends" A love that begins quickly, will end quickly.
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Where was Shakespeare's theatre "The Globe?"
London, England
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What is iambic pentameter?
A foot is an iamb if it consists of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, so the word remark is an iamb. Pent means five, so a line of iambic pentameter consists of five iambs – five sets of unstressed syllables followed by stressed syllables.
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Who has the last line of the play saying, "for never was a tale of more woe, than that of Juliet and her Romeo."?
Prince
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"Well, well, thous hast a careful father, child."
Lady Capulet
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What is the form of poetry that is made up of fourteen lines using iambic pentameter and ending in a couplet?
A sonnet
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