The series of events following the high point of the action
Falling action
100
Who says, "So tedious is this day/as is the night before some festival/to an impatient child that hath new robes/and may not wear them"?
Juliet
100
How old is Juliet when the play begins?
13
100
Benvolio has a feeling that Mercutio and he should go home and not be out on the streets. What is this literary device called?
Foreshadowing
200
"heavy lightness" and "cold fire"
Oxymoron
200
Initiates action in the play
Exciting force
200
Who says, "True, I talk of dreams/which are the children of an idle brain,/begot of nothing but vain fantasy,/which is as thin of substance as the air..."?
Mercutio
200
When Juliet's mom asks her about getting married (Act I), what is Juliet's reaction?
She doesn't want to get married. (She isn't thinking about marriage right now.)
200
About whom is the following quotation speaking? "Away from light steals home my heavy son/and private in his chamber pens himself/Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,'and makes himself an artifical night"?
Romeo
300
An example of this device is "Hatred never leads to anything good."
Theme
300
Highest point of the action in the play
Climax
300
Who says, "What's a Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,/nor arm, nor face, nor any other part/belonging to a man. Oh, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Juliet
300
Who is the person who is like nanny to Juliet?
Nurse
300
Who tells Romeo the news that leads Romeo to go to the apothecary?
Balthasar
400
"The moon is already sick and pale with grief"
Personification
400
Introductory section of a play in which characters, time, place, and situation are presented
Exposition
400
Who says, "He that is strucken blind cannot forget/the precious treasure of his eyesight lost"?
Romeo
400
What does Friar Laurence give to Juliet so that she can get out of marrying Paris?
Potion that makes her appear to be dead
400
Who believes that dreams are not true, do not come true, and do not forecast the future?
Mercutio
500
A character alone on stage expressing his/her thoughts outloud...
Soliloquy
500
The final revelation or outcome of a tragedy
Catastrophe
500
Who says, "Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face/and find delight writ there with beauty's pen"?
Lady Capulet (Juliet's mom)
500
What does Juliet do when she discovers Romeo is dead?
Stabs herself
500
Who dies from a broken heart at the end of the play?