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Literary Devices
Characters/Foils
Who Dies?
Spoiler Alert!
100
A play on words: "You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead" (I.iv.14-15)
What is a Pun?
100
This character provides Romeo and Juliet with a place to get married; Also hatches the plan to get them back together later.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
100
First character in the play to die.
Who is Mercutio?
100
Romeo describes Juliet this way when he sees her at her window after the balcony.
What is: He describes her as the sun.
200
Two opposite words that are joined together to make a statement: "Jumbo Shrimp", "Killer Lamb"
What is an Oxymoron?
200
Mercutio's foil.
Who is Tybalt?
200
Romeo uses this to end his life.
What is poison?
200
Who gets to Romeo in Mantua first?
Who is Balthazar?
300
Two characters that are opposite of one another within a story.
What is a foil?
300
This character gets detained on the way to Mantua. Some say he's the reason the last events in the play occur.
Who is Friar John?
300
Juliet has a few worries about taking the potion. These are two worries.
What is going insane, suffocating, waking up too soon/not being in the vault
300
Name one instance of foreshadowing.
THERE ARE SO MANY
400
Hints in the text that give the reader/audience an idea of what might happen later on in the story.
What is Foreshadowing?
400
This character is chosen by Lord Capulet to marry Juliet.
Who is Count Paris?
400
Romeo approaches this character in Mantua in order to buy illegal poison.
Who is the Apothecary?
400
How does Romeo find out about the party at the Capulet mansion?
What is he reads the list of invitees to the Clown, who is illiterate.
500
When the audience knows something that the characters do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
500
What non-major character dies at the end, but not in the tomb?
Who is Lady Montague?
500
This character is related to the Prince. Well, before he was offed.
Who is Count Paris?
500
What is the final outcome of the play?
What is the Capulets and Montagues make peace, and promise to build statues of Romeo and Juliet.