Figurative Language
Shakespeare History
The Sonnet
Caught in the Act (Acts 1-3)
Caught in the Act (Acts 3-5)
100
Define and provide an example for a simile
What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as' Ex: Life is like a box of chocolates
100
Where and when Shakespeare was born.
What is April 23, 1564 in Stratford Upon Avon, England
100
The name of the last two lines of a sonnet
What is a couplet
100
In act one why is Romeo upset?
What is Rosaline is chaste and doesn't "love" him.
100
What is the term for Juliet's long speech as she is alone on stage in act 4?
What is soliloquy
200
Define and provide and example of an oxymoron
What is a phrase using apparent opposites together. Ex: Jumbo shrimp, "Oh loving hate"-Romeo
200
In Elizabethan England who was forbidden to perform as an actor?
What is women
200
How many lines does each quatrain have?
What is 4
200
What arrangement do Romeo and Juliet make for the next day at the balcony?
What is to meet at 9:00 and be married
200
Who is the surviving kill in the act 3 fight scene? What is his punishment?
What is Romeo and banishment
300
Identify this work of figurative language: "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man" -Mercutio
What is a pun
300
What was the disease outbreak during Elizabethan England?
What is the Black Plague
300
How many quatrains are in a sonnet?
What is 3
300
Why Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet
What is he believes it will bring the families together.
300
What is Friar Lawrence's plan in act 4 to fix all of Juliet's problems?
What is make her drink a potion to fake her own death and then be reunited with Romeo.
400
Identify this work of figurative language “O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness.”
What is alliteration
400
Who was the ruler of England when Shakespeare began writing?
What is Queen Elizabeth I
400
What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
What is ABABCDCDEFEFGG
400
What is the name of Mercutio's 43 line speech in act 1 before the party?
What is the Queen Mab speech
400
How and why does Paris die?
What is Romeo kills Paris when he will not let Romeo into the tomb to be with Juliet.
500
Identify all of the components of a sonnet.
What is 14 lines, 3 quatrains (four lines each), 1 couplet (two lines that rhyme), and ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme
500
Identify the three genres of plays that Shakespeare writes and provide one example for one of them.
What is tragedies (R&J, Macbeth), comedies (Midsummer, Much Ado), and histories (Richard III)
500
What is one example of a sonnet found in Romeo and Juliet?
What is the prologue or when Romeo and Juliet meet
500
Who are the two people Romeo and Juliet get to help them in their plan to be married?
What is Nurse and Friar Lawrence
500
Explain why this is a play about hate and not about love.
What is in the end it is focused more on forgiveness of the two sides than on Romeo and Juliet's love and death.
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