These playgoers paid one pence to stand and watch plays.
Who are groundlings?
200
Scene written to induce levity to balance a serious tone.
What is comic relief?
200
"But come young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I'll thy assistant be."
Who is the friar?
200
The number of hours the sleeping potion lasts.
What is 42?
200
The play mainly takes place here.
What is Verona?
200
Names of the 2 feuding families.
What are Montague and Capulet?
300
A few words or a short passage spoken in an undertone to a character on the stage or to the audience. (not heard by the other actors onstage)
What is an aside?
300
"Come, go good Juliet. I dare not stay."
Who is the friar?
300
These people are featured in the scene following the discovery of Juliet's body by the nurse (for comic relief)
Who are the musicians?
300
The secondary (minor) setting of the play.
What is Mantua?
300
At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with her.
Who is Rosaline?
400
Reference to earlier works such as mythology or the Bible.
What is allusion?
400
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of the field."
Who is Capulet?
400
He rides to Mantua to inform Romeo of Juliet's death.
Who is Balthasar?
400
After the Capulet's party, they search for Romeo.
Who are Benvolio and Mercutio?
400
He gives Romeo advice about how to get over Rosaline.
Who is Mercutio?
500
Witty or clever remark or elaborate figurative device which incorporates metaphor, simile, hyperbole or oxymoron and is intended to surprise or delight by its wit or ingenuity.
What is a conceit?
500
"Love is a smoke made of the fume of sighs."
Who is Romeo?
500
Friar Laurence runs into him at the entrance to the Capulet's tomb.