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The Players of the Stage
Elements
The Road-map of Literature
He Said, She Said
Looking at Literature
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Arranges Juliet’s marriage to Paris.
Who is Lord Capulet?
100
A comparison using "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
100
The turning point, the point of highest tension.
What is the climax?
100
Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!
Who is Mercutio?
100
Argues how a work conforms to, and rejects, the guidelines of a particular genre.
What is genre criticism?
200
A holy man who devises plans for Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Friar Laurence?
200
Giving human characteristics to a non-human entity.
What is personification?
200
The ending, where all issues are resolved.
What is the resolution/conclusion?
200
This, by his voice, should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave Come hither, cover'd with an antic face, To fleer and scorn at our solemnity? Now, by the stock and honour of my kin, To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
Who is Tybalt?
200
This approach asks critics to examine the era in which a work was written to see what elements influenced its creation.
What is New Historicism?
300
A peacemaker who often tells about the fights.
Who is Benvolio?
300
Reference to mythology in literature.
What is a classical allusion?
300
Where the action builds.
What is rising action?
300
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Who is Juliet?
300
Approach asks readers to look at the emotional and psychological issues that characters demonstrate as though they were real people.
What is Psychoanalytical Criticism?
400
Serves as a messenger between Romeo and Juliet.
Who is the Nurse?
400
When the audience knows what the characters do not know.
What is dramatic irony?
400
Where the plot works toward its end.
What is falling action?
400
There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, And world's exile is death: then banished, Is death mis-term'd: calling death banishment, Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe, And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.
Who is Romeo?
400
Examines the role of women in a work of literature in terms of their actions, treatment from other characters and outcome.
What is Gender Criticism?
500
The name for the narrator of the story in the first two acts.
Who is the Chorus?
500
A form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words.
What is a pun?
500
The outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences.
What is denouement?
500
Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love. And I for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punish'd.
Who is Prince Escalus?
500
Analyzes characters and stories versus prep-established archetypes from literature.
What is Mythological/Archetypal Criticism?