Poetry
Formal Writing
Reading Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Pot Luck
100

A poem with three lines and 5,7,5 syllable count

What is a haiku?

100

The term for background information provided in a topic in a paragraph.

What is context?

100

A long speech given by a character who is alone on stage is called this.

What is a soliloquy?

100

The speaker of the prologue at the start of acts in Shakespeare's plays is called this.

What is the chorus?

100

True or false:

A quote taken directly from the text should be put in parentheses.

what is FALSE?

200

A cinquain has this many lines.

What is five?

200
The three required elements in a topic sentence.

What are topic, position, reason.

200

The name of Shakespeare's original theater.

What is "The Globe Theater?"

200

This character had a daughter who died.

Who is the nurse?

200

The famous line "My only love sprung from my only hate" is spoken by this character.

Who is Juliet?

300

"The sun is a ball of fire" is an example of this poetic device.

What is a metaphor?

300

True or false:  You must include the word "page" when citing the page number in a direct citation.

What is FALSE?!

300

A literary device in which the audience knows something that the characters do not is called this.

What is dramatic irony?

300

"These violent delights have violent ends" is a line spoken by this character.

Who is Friar Lawerence?

300
A sonnet contains this rhyme scheme.

What is AbABCDCDEFEFGG

400

This poetic form has fourteen lines and ten syllables in each line.

What is a sonnet?

400

True or false:  

The concluding line in a paragraph is a good place for adding new, important information.

What is FALSE?!
400

A long speech given by one character to another on stage is called this.

What is a monolgue?

400

The number of hours that Juliet's potion lasts.

What is 42?

400

"The trees danced and waved" is an example of this poetic device.

What is personification?

500

"Big Bob bounced the blue basketball" is an example of this poetic device.

What is alliteration?

500

Information in a paragraph taken word for word from a text in quotation marks is called this.

What is a direct citation?
500

The prologue at the start of Act 1 in Romeo and Juliet is written in this poetic form.

What is a sonnet?

500

In Act V, at the tomb, Romeo tells Balthasar that he's going inside to do what?

What is get a ring from Juliet's finger?

500

The original day that Juliet was supposed to marry Paris.

What is Thursday?