Name the term that means a type of story that portrays the fall of a noble person, usually due to a tragic weakness or flaw in his/her character.
What is a tragedy?
100
Name the term that means an exaggerating or stretching the truth for literary effect. "My shoes are killing me!"
What is hyperbole?
100
Name the term that means a speech or performance given entirely by one person or one character, sharing thoughts or contemplating a decision, alone on the stage.
What is a soliloquy?
100
Identify the character that has been killed by Romeo.
Who is Tybalt?
100
Identify the punishment the Prince handed down for Romeo.
What is exile/banishment/death?
200
Name the term that means a reference to something outside of the work, usually mythical, Biblical, or historical
What is an allusion? Joe was a good Samaritan.
200
Name the term that means a metrical pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables common in poetry and in Shakespearean plays. -the line contains ten syllables in the pattern ~/~/~/~/~/
What is iambic pentameter?
200
Name the term that means two words used together that contradict each other, as in icy fire or sweet sorrow.
What is oxymoron?
200
Identify the character that tells Juliet of the carnage of Act III, scene i.
Who is the nurse?
200
Even though Juliet has her nurse, and Romeo has Friar Laurence, both characters still feel __________ or _________.
What is lonely/isolated?
300
Name the term that means a recurring and familiar pattern in literature, like a journey or a wise old man.
What is an archetype.
300
Name the term that means when something is different than it is supposed to be or thought to be (things turn out the opposite of our expectations, like President Reagan's Limo).
What is irony? (We experience dramatic irony because we know something Tybalt does not know in Act III.)
300
Name the term that means a play on words when a word has more than one meaning.
What is pun?
300
Name the character the nurse mourns in this scene.
Who is Tybalt?
300
When the Friar Laurence and Romeo hear someone knocking at the door of the cell, name the element of drama/literature that keeps us on the edge of our seat wondering what will happen next, or who could be at the door.
What is suspense?
400
Name the term that means when a character in a play speaks to the audience and not to the other characters.
What is an aside?
400
Name the term that means a comparison of two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'.
What is metaphor?
400
Name the term that means a comparison of two unlike things using the word 'like' or 'as.' Love is like a rose.
What is simile?
400
Name the character Juliet mourns in this scene.
Who is Romeo?
400
Name the character that brings Juliet’s message to Romeo.
Who is the nurse?
500
Name the term that means conversation carried on by the characters in a work of literature.
What is dialogue?
500
Name the term that means the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
What is meter?
500
Identify the character Juliet fears is dead (at first) as the nurse tells her of recent events.
Who is Romeo?
500
Identify where is Romeo hiding at this point in the story.
What is Friar Laurence's cell?
500
In despair, Romeo thinks about ____________ himself in Friar Laurence’s cell.