A play on words, like,
"dreamers often lie--"
"--in bed asleep while they dream things true"
What is a pun?
100
An example of this would be, "Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves."
What is a simile?
100
Says, " O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, / Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet."
Who is Paris?
100
The two men of the house of Capulet who start the brawl at the start of the play.
Who are Samson and Gregory?
100
The Monarch of the English Renaissance who promoted learning and study of the Arts
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
200
A beauty metaphor
What is a Blazon?
200
A comparison made by stating being, using words like: is, are, and were.
What is a metaphor?
200
Says, "It is that villain Romeo, come / to fleer and scorn at our solemnity"
Who is Tybalt?
200
What Act II, scene ii is more commonly referred to as
What is the Balcony Scene?
200
The person who pays for the plays production, such as Lord Chaimberlain and the King in Shakespeare's companies "The Lord Chaimberlain's Men" and "The King's Men"
What is a Patron?
300
A contradictory statement, like "Why then O brawling love, loving hate, / O anything of nothing first create"
What is an Oxymoron?
300
Making objects, animals and ideas seem human
What is Personification?
300
Says, "O, teach me how I should forget to think"
Who is Romeo?
300
The characters that die in Act III
Who are Mercutio and Tybalt?
300
The four substances in the body that control a person's personality or mood. (Melancholy, Phlegm, Yellow Bile, and Black Bile.
What are the Four Humors?
400
A poem written in Iambic Pentameter that contains 14 lines in AB rhyme scheme ending in a rhyming couplet.
What is a Sonnet?
400
An example of this would be when Romeo says, " My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars."
What is Foreshadowing?
400
Says, "True I talk of dreams,/ that are the children of an idle brain. / Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
Who is Mercutio?
400
The cause of Juliet's "death-like sleep"
What is a potion?
400
A line delivered that other characters on stage do not hear, often delivered to the audience.
What is an Aside?
500
When the opposite of something is used to dramatize or emphasize a description. For example, "more light and light it grows. More dark and dark our woes."
What is juxtaposition?
500
When the audience knows something the characters do not
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
Says, "O, serpent heart hid with a flow'ring face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? "
Who is Juliet?
500
The reason Friar John was detained and could not go to Mantua
What is the plague?
500
A speech given by one character alone on stage in which they share their thoughts.