Vocabulary
William Shakespeare
Archaic Language
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Main Characters
100
Remark a character makes to the audience or on another character.
What is aside?
100
April 23, 1564
What is Shakespeare's birth date?
100
Means why
What is "wherefore"?
100
Romeo's family
What is the Montagues?
100
Romeo's lover
Who is Juliet?
200
A character in sharp contrast to another in the play
What is foil?
200
April 23 and was 52 years old
What is Shakespeare's death?
200
Means you
What is thee?
200
Juliet's family
What is the Capulets?
200
Romeo's best friend who died over a sword fight
Who is Mercutio?
300
Poeting using unrhymed lambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
300
Stratford-upon-Avon
What is Shakespeare's birth place?
300
Means where
What is whither?
300
Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
To stop the families from feuding.
300
A man who married Romeo and Juliet
Who is Friar Laurence?
400
A brief reference, within a work, to somethingoutside the work that the reader or audience is expected to know
What is Allusion?
400
The Thames
Where did the timbers come from to build the Globe?
400
Means cousin
What is coz?
400
What will the Capulets do if they see Romeo with Juliet?
kill him
400
A man who falls in love with a women seeing her for the first time.
Who is Romeo?
500
A humorous scene, incident, or speech that relieves the overall emotional intensity
What a comic relief?
500
Peter Smith
What is the carpenter who built the Globe?
500
Means fight
What is fray?
500
What does the Prince say Romeo has to do because he killed Tybalt?
Thh Prince banishes Romeo
500
A women who loves a man, and marries him secretly because the man she loves is a Montague.
Who is Juliet?
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