Vocabulary
Characters
Plot
Setting
Themes
100

This four-letter word means "very big" and starts with "H".

Huge

100

The time and place where a story happens.

What is the setting?

100

The sequence of events in a story.

What is the plot?

100

The Italian city where both stories are mainly set

 What is Verona?

100

The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

What is a theme?

200

A synonym for "strange" or "unusual" that begins with "P".

What is "peculiar"?

200

Who is the name of Romeo's past love. 

What is Rosaline?

200

This term refers to the most exciting or important part of a story's plot.

What is the climax?

200

The building where most play rehearsals happen in the movie

What is The Rose Theatre?

200

This common theme deals with growing up and coming of age.

What is "coming of age" or "maturation"?

300

This word means "to give up" or "to surrender" and rhymes with "concede".

What is "cede"?

300

A character who opposes the protagonist in a story.

Who is the antagonist?

300

In this type of plot structure, the story begins in the middle of the action.

What is "in medias res"?

300

The location where Romeo first sees Juliet

What is the Capulet ball?

300

Romeo and Juliet explores the conflict between this and family loyalty.

What is Romance?

400

A 10-letter word meaning "to make something less severe or intense".

What is "ameliorate"?

400

A character who has both good and bad qualities, neither purely heroic nor purely villainous.

Who is an antihero?

400

A plot device where past events are inserted into the main sequence of the narrative.



What is a flashback?

400

The real London theater featured in the movie

What is The Theatre?

400

The concept exploring the relationship between life and art

What is Inspiration?

500

This literary term refers to a word that imitates the sound it represents.

What is "onomatopoeia"?

500

A character who represents ideas or aspects of the human condition, often used in allegories.

Who is an archetypal character?

500

A plot twist where the protagonist turns out to be the antagonist, or vice versa.

What is a "heel-face turn" or "face-heel turn"?

500

Where does Beloved take place?

What is Cincinnati, Ohio?

500

The theme symbolized by Mercutio and the Nurse

What is comic relief?

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