Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Tragedy
Juliet's costume at the Capulet party
An angel
The technique present in "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Repetition/rhetorical question
The time periods the play and film were produced in
Elizabethan era and Postmodern era
The number of acts in Shakespearean plays
5
The names of the feuding families
Capulet and Montague
The place of Mercutio's death
Verona beach
The technique present in "A plague o’ both houses!"
Foreshadowing
A strict hierarchy ranking all life from God to the different classes of humanity.
The Great Chain of Being
The year Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet was released
1996
the setting of the romeo and juliet death scene
Juliet's tomb
Water is a symbol for...
the purity of Romeo and Juliet's love and the division between them
The technique present in "palm to palm is holy palmer’s kiss"
Biblical allusion
The Divine Right of Kings
A religious doctrine stating that the monarchy's power is granted by God
The five types of context
historical, political, cultural, social, personal
The character that publicly fought Benvolio
Tybalt
Where we can see metafiction in the film
the theatrical abandoned stage, mass media, broadcast news
The technique present in "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief"
Iambic pentameter/metaphor/personification
List 3 qualities of postmodernism
Intertextuality, broad skepticism, sensitivity to ideology in maintaining political power, rejection of absolute truths
The relevance of Romeo and Juliet being set in renaissance Italy
- Allowed Shakespeare to critique his own society from a distance
- Filial loyalty
- Freer than Elizabethan England
The number of people Romeo killed
2 (3 including himself)
What starts the fight at the gas station between the Montagues and Capulets?
Thumb-biting
The technique present in “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Metaphor
The time frame of postmodernism
1960-2000
VERBAL IRONY- Refers to spoken words only and occurs when a character says one thing but suggests or does the opposite.
DRAMATIC IRONY- Extends beyond spoken words and occurs when the audience’s understanding of events surpasses that of its characters.
SITUATIONAL IRONY-Occurs when the opposite of what is expected actually happens, going against audience (and often character) expectations.