A long speech performed by a single character to other characters on stage.
What is monologue?
100
Act IV, scene v - Juliet is found "dead" in her bed
- "Lady, lady, lady! Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady's dead!"
What is dramatic irony?
100
"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."
What is a simile?
200
This group speaks the first 14 lines of the play.
What is the chorus?
200
"Thou chid'st me oft for loving Rosaline."
Who is Friar Laurence?
200
Juliet's lines: "Methinks I see thee, now art thou below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb," _________________ Romeo's actual death in the Capulet monument.
What is foreshadows?
200
The nurse: "Alack the day! He's gone, he's killed, he's dead!" Juliet believes Romeo is dead, but the audience knows it is Tybalt who was slain at Romeo;s hand.
What is dramatic irony?
200
"We'll have no Cupid hoodwink'd with the scarf,
Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath,
Scaring the ladies like a crowkeeper;" (2)
What is allusion and simile?
300
A 14 line poem written in the rhyme scheme a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,g, containing 3 quatrains, and a rhyming couplet
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
300
"At my poor house look to behold this night Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light."
Who is Count Paris?
300
Romeo and Juliet's classified in the ______________ of Drama, or the manner of classifying that distinguishes plays from other literary works.
What is genre?
300
The fact that Friar John's "speed to Mantua there was stay'd" when he was quarantined in a plagued house
What is situational irony?
300
"For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death..."
What is personification?
400
The term used to describe the meter of a line containing 5 "feet", in a pattern of unstressed-stressed syllables
What is iambic pentameter?
400
"Hang thee young baggage, disobedient wretch."
Who is Juliet?
400
Juliet's thoughts before drinking the potion, Friar Laurence's thoughts on the virtue and vice of all living things, Juliet's address of the night sky prior to Romeo making himself known. SPELL IT!
What are s-o-l-i-l-o-q-u-y?
400
"Come death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.
How is't, my soul? Let's talk; it is not day."
What is verbal irony?
400
"You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.” OR
"I am too sore enpierced with his shaft
To soar with his light feathers;"
What are puns?
500
This is the purpose of the prologue
What is to introduce characters, establish setting, and create tone? (exposition!)
500
"My poverty, but not my will, consents."
Who is Romeo?
500
an aside (define it!)
What is privileged language heard only by the audience, or a limited number of characters on stage?
500
An example of situational irony not described above
What is ______________________________?
500
"Even now the frozen bosom of the north
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence,
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south." OR
"The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,"