Figurative Language
Shakespearean Drama
Plot/Setting
Characters
MORE Literary Terms
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An example of this would be "love goes towards love as schoolboys from their books."
What is a simile?
100
The opening of Act I, Scene I and Act I, Scene V are both examples of this term.
What is comic relief?
100
This scene ends with the introduction of a melancholy Romeo.
What is Scene 1?
100
Bland, though even tempered.
Who is Benvolio?
100
Combining opposites to reveal a certain truth.
What is a paradox?
200
An example of this would be "let two more summers wither in their pride..."
What is personification?
200
Mercutio is a prime example of this term.
What is 'foil'?
200
This scene is infamously titled after its setting.
What is 'the balcony scene'?
200
Verona's most eligible bachelor.
Who is Paris?
200
An example of this would be when the Nurse uses breath to claim she is out of breath.
What is irony?
300
An example of this would be "Verona's summer hath not such a flower."
What is a metaphor?
300
Romeo's intense, rash love for Juliet is what makes him this kind of character.
What is a tragic hero?
300
Tybalt may not have felt such 'choler' had Romeo not done this.
What is 'party crashing'?
300
The "real" mother between the two.
Who is the Nurse?
300
"You kiss by the book" is an example of this figurative language.
What is an idiom?
400
An example of this would be "Lord how my head aches! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces."
What is hyperbole?
400
Contemporary directors use this device whenever a young man stands under the bedroom window, beckoning his love interest.
What is an allusion?
400
Juliet pretended to go to do this when she was actually eloping with Romeo.
What is confession?
400
A gregarious fellow.
Who is Mercutio?
400
Shakespeare often included these for his more witty audience members.
What is a pun(s)?
500
An example of this would be "to beautify him only lacks a cover."
What is a metaphor?
500
Neither family knowing of Romeo and Juliet's love is an example of this term.
What is is dramatic irony?
500
This event reopened old wounds.
What is the big fight?
500
The "Prince of Cats"
Who is Tybalt?
500
Romeo's and Juliet's death would mark this stage in the plot.
What is the climax?
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