Drama Terms
This is the part of a play defined by elements such as rising action, climax, and resolution.
What is an act?
This is a universal idea, lesson, or message explored throughout a work of literature.
What is theme?
This is Romeo's friend who is killed by Tybalt.
Who is Mercutio?
When Mercutio compares reproductive organs to flowers and to water pumps, he is using this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
This is how Romeo and Juliet begins.
What is two servants from the Capulet and Montague houses start a street fight?
This is a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted.
What is foreshadowing?
This is an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
What is a symbol?
This is the person who Romeo was in love with before he met Juliet.
Who is Rosaline?
When Juliet says that she would like to take out her revenge of her cousin's death on Romeo's body, it is this type of irony.
What is verbal irony?
This is how Romeo and Juliet meet.
What is at the Capulet family's party when Romeo sneaks in to see Rosaline?
This is a long speech that a character gives on stage when nobody else except for the audience can hear.
What is a soliloquy?
This is a character who doesn't really go through any changes throughout the story.
What is a static character?
This is the character who banishes Romeo for killing Tybalt.
Who is Prince Escalus?
When Friar John is unable to take the letter to Romeo explaining Friar Lawrence's plan, it is this type of irony.
What is situational irony?
This is what Friar Lawrence is talking about when we first meet him.
What is comparing plants to people?
This is when a character may turn to the audience to make an observation or quippy remark that the other characters can't hear.
What is an aside?
This is the character who drives the action and whose fate matters the most.
What is a protagonist?
This is the character who creates a potion for Juliet.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
When Romeo drinks poison in Juliet's family tomb, it is this type of irony occurring.
What is dramatic irony?
This is how Juliet dies. Be specific.
What is she stabs herself with Romeo's dagger.
This is a story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one narrative story that conveys a complex, abstract, or difficult message.
What is an allegory?
This type of POV uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective.
What is 3rd person limited POV?
These are the FOUR characters who die in the final act.
Who are Romeo, Juliet, Paris, and Lady Montague?
When Juliet's parents find her "dead" in her bedroom the day before she is meant to marry Paris, these two types of irony are being used.
What is situational and dramatic irony?
This is what corroborates Friar Lawrence's story at the very end of the play.
What is Romeo's suicide letter?