Shakespeare
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Poetic Devices
Romeo and Juliet
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The title of Shakespeare's most famous play.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
100
Another name for an educated guess.
What is an inference?
100
This English queen was a big fan of Shakespeare's, as well as one of his most loyal patrons.
Who was Queen Elizabeth?
100
This term stands for the pattern of rhyming words in poetry. This can be viewed by labeling each rhyming set with a letter.
What is rhyme scheme?
100
This character (first and last name) is the love interest of Romeo Montague.
Who is Juliet Capulet?
200
The writing style that Shakespeare uses that consists of lines of poetry that each have 10 syllables.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
Another word for a logical prediction.
What is a conclusion?
200
This theatre, built in 1617, was where many of Shakespeare's plays debuted.
What is the Globe Theatre?
200
The poetic device which denotes lines of poetry with 10 syllables. Each set of syllables contains one unstressed and one stressed syllable.
What is iambic pentameter?
200
The term used for lovers who can never be together, because fate is against them.
What are star-crossed lovers?
300
William Shakespeare is from what European country?
What is England?
300
Read the following passage and make the appropriate inference: "The woman said she didn't want to go to work tomorrow, because she needed a day off. This morning, she called in sick, but she sounded fine." What inference can be made about what the woman has done?
What is faking illness?
300
This theatre, long forgotten, was rediscovered when workers were refurbishing a pub in 2012. This was the theatre where Romeo and Juliet was rumored to have debuted.
What is the Curtain Theatre?
300
The following is an example of what poetic device? "“Now I’ll tell you,” he says, with his teeth sounding gray, “how the Lorax got lifted and taken away…”"
What is a rhyming couplet?
300
The last names of the two feuding families of Verona.
Who are the Montagues and the Capulets?
400
The title of William Shakespeare's sonnet that begins: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
What was Sonnet 18?
400
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." Make a conclusion about Lord Capulet and Lord Montague's reaction to Romeo and Juliet's relationship, based on their ancient feud.
What is angry?
400
This is the setting of the play, Romeo and Juliet.
Where is Verona, Italy?
400
A component of iambic pentameter which is made up of two syllables- one that's unstressed, and one that's stressed.
What is an iamb?
400
The character who plays Juliet's nanny.
Who is the Nurse?
500
In Shakespeare's lifetime, he wrote 154 of these.
What is a sonnet?
500
For the following, make an inference about the setting of this scene: “Eduardo moved his dishes, one after the other, under the lens of the microscope. The cells were perfect- or so it seemed."
What is a laboratory?
500
This character speaks a total of 617 lines in the play, while his counterpart speaks 542.
Who is Romeo?
500
How many iambs does it take to make a line of iambic pentameter?
What is 5?
500
In Romeo and Juliet, these people are the only characters who will never speak in iambic pentameter.
Who are the Commoners?
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