Shakespearean Terms
Thee
What is you?
"I would the fool were married to her grave."
Who is Lady Capulet?
"O God, I have an ill divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."
What is foreshadowing?
Romeo compares Juliet to this "heavenly" body during the balcony scene
What is the sun?
A Shakespearean sonnet has this number of lines
What is fourteen?
Thy
What is your?
Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied,
and vice sometime by action dignified.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
"Can heaven be so envious?"
What is personification
This character explains to Prince Escalus what happened during the street fight in Act One.
Who is Benvolio?
A Shakespearean sonnet is written in this meter?
Wherefore
What is why?
"On pain of torture, from those bloody hands,
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground..."
Who is Prince Escalus?
How art thy out of breath, when thou hast breath
To say to me that thou art out of breath?"
Paradox
This character thinks he owns Juliet.
Who is Lord Capulet?
What extended metaphor do Romeo and Juliet use in the "encounter sonnet"
What is a pilgrim and a saint?
Ere
What is before
Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thy art.
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Who is Friar Lawrence
"More light and light, more dark and dark our woes."
This woman speaks only one line in the entire first three acts. Hint:It's in 1.1
Who is Lady Montague?
Characters of high status speak this way.
What is in verse?
hath
What is has
"This is not Romeo. He is some other where."
Who is Romeo?
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs
What is metaphor
Juliet uses this excuse to go to the church to marry Romeo.
"Mercy but murders, pardoning those who kill" is an example of this literary device.
What is paradox?