Characters
Literary Terms
Dramatic Irony
Simile or metaphor
Plot
100
This character commits suicide because he thinks his spouse is dead.
Who is Romeo?
100
Comparing two things while using like or as.
What is a simile?
100
What makes Romeo's revelation that he is in love with Rosaline in Act 1 dramatic irony?
Romeo is in love with Rosaline, but the audience knows that he falls in love with Juliet by the end of the play.
100
What light through yonder window breaks, 'tis the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon.
What is a metaphor?
100
The conflict of the story.
What is the feud between the Capulet and Montague families?
200
These characters serve as confidantes for Romeo and Juliet.
Who are Nurse and Friar.
200
Comparing two things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
200
Friar Laurence's reaction to Juliet's "Death" is "She's not well married that lives married long; But she's best married that dies married young." Explain how this is dramatic irony.
The Friar and the audience know that Juliet is not dead, but her parents think she is dead.
200
"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp..." What's being compared?
What are Juliet's cheek and the brightness of daylight?
200
Romeo and Juliet meet at the party and fall in love.
What is the Rising Action?
300
His temper is evident because he threatens to hit people on multiple occasions, and he freely insults people who disobey him.
Who is Lord Capulet?
300
The audience is aware of something that characters in the play do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
300
Identify the two characters who fight at Juliet's tomb. Explain how this situation is dramatic irony.
Who are County Paris and Romeo? The audience knows that Romeo is married to Juliet; Paris thinks that Romeo is there to desecrate the bodies of Juliet and Tybalt.
300
The following metaphor compares what? "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food"
What is earth to a mother and to a tomb?
300
Romeo and Juliet are found dead in the tombs, and Lord Montague and Lord Capulet find peace.
What is the resolution?
400
A friend of the families who is knowledgeable about the medicinal and poisonous properties of plants.
Who is Friar Laurence?
400
A character trait that leads to the protagonists' downfall in a tragedy.
What is tragic flaw?
400
Is this following dramatic irony? After Romeo's banishment, the nurse tells Juliet that she should marry Paris?
No, this is not dramatic irony. This would be irony because it's different from the situation we expect.
400
In the following ___________, what is being compared? We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with a scarf, Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper; Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke.
What is simile? Scarecrow to the maskers.
400
Sampson and Gregory bite their thumbs at Abram and other Montagues, thus, starting a fight in the streets of Verona.
What is the introduction?
500
The tragic heroes of the play (Protagonists).
Who are Romeo and Juliet?
500
What is the difference between an aside, soliloquy, and a monologue?
Aside: Spoken directly to the audience. Soliloquy: Thoughts spoken aloud. Monologue: One person speaking aloud with other characters purposefully listening.
500
How does dramatic irony affect the mood of the play for the audience?
It creates suspense.
500
Who said the following ___________, and what is being compared? Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel,-- Will they not hear? What, ho! you men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins.
What is Prince, metaphor, families?
500
Romeo's killing Tybalt and being banished serves as this plot element.
What is the crisis?
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