Grab bag (I couldn't think of another category)...
100
Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged.
Who is Romeo?
100
The meter in which Romeo & Juliet is written.
What is iambic pentameter?
100
To read or examine in detail.
What is peruse?
100
Romeo purchases this from the apothecary.
What is poison?
100
This person sells Romeo a potent poison.
Who is the apothecary?
200
"I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword."
Who is Benvolio?
200
In drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words.
What is an aside?
200
A glass container for holding liquids.
What is vial?
200
Juliet gives this to Romeo (through the nurse) in Act III, after Tybalt is killed.
What is a ring?
200
This is built by Montague to honor Juliet.
What is a statue made of gold?
300
"Therefore, love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
Who is Friar Lawrence?
300
Two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter back-to-back.
What is a couplet?
300
A person or group that is an enemy.
What is adversary?
300
This is the thing that Romeo swears on to profess his love.
What is the moon?
300
What is the name of the town to which Romeo flees after being banished?
What is Mantua?
400
"...if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be off'red to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing."
Who is Nurse?
400
A casual reference in literature to a person, place, event, or another passage of literature, often without explicit identification.
What is an allusion?
400
Awkward or difficult to handle.
What is unwieldy?
400
This is the animal to which Benvolio compares Rosaline.
What is a crow?
400
What prevents Romeo from receiving the letter from Friar Lawrence?
What is the plague?
500
"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew...which with sweet water nightly I will dew."
Who is Paris?
500
A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character.
What is a foil?
500
A fragment or scrap of something.
What are remnants?
500
Romeo never receives this object (but it's very important to the outcome of the play).
What is Friar's letter?
500
Who said, "Younger than shee are happy mothers made."