Terms
Characters
Plot
Historical Context
5-Act Play Structure
100
When a character gives a long speech to other characters.
What is a monologue?
100
Romeo's peaceful cousin who tries to defuse the fight in Act 1.
Benvolio
100
What does the Prince threaten to do to any Montagues or Capulets who continue fighting in the streets?
Execute them.
100
Who played the female characters in Shakespeare's plays?
Men and young men.
100

This stage of the plot pyramid corresponds to Act 1.

What is the Exposition?

200
What poetic form is used in this passage:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
What is a sonnet?
200
Juliet's hot-tempered cousin who likes to fight.
Tybalt
200
Who tells Romeo who Juliet is, and vice versa?
The Nurse?
200
Who was Queen of England at the time of Shakespeare?
Queen Elizabeth
200

This stage of the plot pyramid corresponds to Act 4.

What is Falling Action?

300
When a character speaks to himself or herself in a long speech (and other characters do not hear).
What is a soliloquy?
300
This character is close to Juliet and is primarily a comic character.
the Nurse
300
Why does Juliet seek out Friar Lawrence in desperation?
Her father tells her she must marry Paris.
300
What made Romeo and Juliet different from other plays of the time?
The combination of comedy and tragedy.
300

Which act of the play contains a turning point / moment of highest suspense?

What is Act 3?

400
When the reader knows something the characters do not.
What is dramatic irony?
400
This character delivers the news of Juliet's death to Romeo.
Balthasar
400
How does Mercutio die?
He and Tybalt are fighting and Romeo gets in the way while trying to stop them.
400

Name one similarity between plays of this time and modern entertainment.

It was an industry. People made a living as playwrights, actors, and directors.

There was competition for audiences, directors, and popular actors.

Similar topics/content: romance, war, violence, power, etc.

400

In this act, the main conflict of the play is resolved.

What is Act 5?

500
Identify the type of language used in this passage: Can I go forward when my heart is here? / Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out.
What is blank verse?
500
This character is killed by Romeo in Act 5.
Paris
500
How does Romeo end up finding out about the Capulets' party?
Capulet's illiterate servant asks him to read the list of invitees and invites him.
500

The inciting incident occurs during this act.

What is Act 1?

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