Language
This type of speaking involves no special rhythm.
What is prose?
The cousin of Romeo
Who is Benvolio?
The reason the prince of Verona is so angry early in the play.
What is the Capulets and Montagues have gotten into a public fight three times and disturbed the peace?
This character spoke to a girl's father to get permission to marry her.
Who is Paris?
This type of figurative language is a joke that plays on the sound or multiple meanings of words.
What is a pun?
This is the way that upper-class characters speak.
What is iambic pentameter?
Juliet's father
Who is Lord Capulet?
The reason Tybalt storms out of the Capulet party.
What is Lord Capulet told him to leave Romeo alone?
This character starts the play broken-hearted because the girl he loves won't marry him.
Who is Romeo?
What is an extended metaphor?
What is it's a comparison of two unlike things (without using like or as) that is used over a series of many lines
This type of speaking involves 10 syllables per line in a pattern of rotating unstressed and stressed syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
Romeo's friend who talks about dreams
Who is Mercutio?
According to Mercutio, this person is responsible for dreams.
Who is Queen Mab?
Three things Lord Capulet tells Paris as he refuses to let him marry Juliet right now.
What is she is too young (she's only 13), Paris has to get her permission to marry her (so he has to win her heart), and he has to wait two years to marry her.
(A/an) _____ is the type of figurative language used in this example. "Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen..." (I.iii.82-83).
What is an extended metaphor?
"Stop being so sus! You're lowkey acting shady right now." Prose or iambic pentameter?
What is prose?
The girl Romeo first has a crush on
Who is Rosaline?
Three odd things Romeo is doing early in the play.
What is crying, walking through the woods alone at night, locking himself in (dark) bedroom.
Three reasons Paris wants to marry Juliet.
What is she is from a wealthy family, she is of high social standing, and she is beautiful?
(A/an) _______ is the type of figurative language used in this example. "I am too sore enpierced with his [Cupid's] shaft / To soar with his light feathers, and so bound / I cannot a pitch above dull woe" (I.iv.19-21).
What is a pun?
Two lines that have similar lengths and end in the same sound.
What is a rhyming couplet?
The ruler of Verona
Who is Prince Escalus?
This is probably the reason Romeo gets rejected by his first love interest.
What is it is likely that Rosaline plans to become a nun?
Three typical elements of romantic relationships between men and women at this time period.
The type of figurative language used in this example "...In the instant came / The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared" (lines 101-102) is _____.
What is a metaphor?