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Monologue
What is a long speech given on stage to other characters?
100
Verona
What is where the majority of the play takes place?
100
Romeo: “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”
What is a metaphor?
100
Definition of rapier.
What is a long thin sword?
100
William Shakespeare
Who is the author of Romeo and Juliet?
200
Scene
What is a subsection of an act?
200
Mantua
What is where Romeo runs away to?
200
Romeo: “She’ll not be hit/With Cupid’s arrow”
What is an allusion?
200
Dagger
What is the way in which Juliet killed herself?
200
Romeo killed Tybalt
What is the reason Romeo was banished?
300
Simile
What is a comparison between unlike things using like or as?
300
The Capulet party
What is where Romeo and Juliet meet?
300
Lord Capulet: “Let two more summers wither in their pride/Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride?”
What is end rhyme?
300
Poison
What is the way in which Romeo killed himself?
300
Friar John is quarantined?
What is the reason Friar Lawrence's letter does not get to Romeo?
400
Soliloquy
What is a long speech by a character alone on stage, given to the audience to reveal personal feelings?
400
The balcony scene
What is the most famous scene in the play?
400
Nurse: “Why, he’s a man of wax!”
What is a figure of speech?
400
Assassin
What is the way in which Lady Capulet threatened to kill Romeo?
400
13
What is Juliet's age?
500
Oxymoron
What is a phrase made up of two opposite words, that makes sense?
500
Capulet's monument
What is where Juliet was buried? Or - What is where Romeo and Juliet committed suicide?
500
Juliet: “My only love sprung from my only hate!”
What is an antithesis?
500
Rope ladder
What is the in which Juliet threatened to kill herself (by turning it into a noose)?
500
6 days
Over how much time does the play take?
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