Shakespeare Background
What is the name of Shakespeare's theater
The Globe Theater
What does Shakespeare compare his love to in Sonnet 18?
A summer's day
Romeo and Juliet declare their love for each other after only knowing each other for how long?
A few hours
Aside
A side remark to the audience, not heard by other characters
"If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of peace."
Prince -- Act I when he threatens the death penalty as punishment for the Montagues and Capulets if they fight again
Who are the "groundlings"
The spectators who stood on the ground around the stage, packed in
How many lines does a sonnet have?
14
Why is Friar Lawrence initially skeptical of Romeo wanting to marry Juliet?
Romeo was recently madly in love with Rosaline
Soliloquy
A character giving a long speech of their private thoughts/emotions out loud to the audience
“Good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.”
Juliet saying goodbye to Romeo during the balcony scene
What is iambic pentameter?
A type of meter with 10 syllables per line including pairs of a stressed and unstressed syllable
What is a couplet?
Two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme
Romeo kills Tybalt to...
Avenge Mercutio's death
Dramatic Irony
When the audience knows something that the characters do not, creating suspense or dramatic effect
“What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
Tybalt during the first fight scene
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon," is an example of what?
Personification
What is the sonnet rhyme scheme?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Lord Capulet complicates Friar Lawrence's plan by...
Ordering Juliet to marry Paris and moving up the wedding date
Volta
The turning point of a sonnet (shift in tone or theme)
“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ‘tis enough.”
When Mercutio is saying his final words as he dies
What is another name for unrhymed iambic pentameter?
Blank verse
The majority of Shakespeare's sonnets where inspired by which muse(s)?
The dark lady, a young man (fair youth sonnets)
At the end of the play, the Montagues and Capulets realize...
the foolishness of the fued, thus agreeing to keep the peace
Dramatic Foil
A character who contrast another character (typically the main character) to highlight certain traits or actions
"For exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say 'banishment'."
Romeo's reaction to his banishment at Friar Lawrence's cell