Characters
Plot Items
Figurative Language
Motif
Miscellaneous
100
Who is the one who likes to provoke a reaction?
who is mercutio?
100
What is something that Juliet thinks is dumb?
names
100
What is "Juliet is the sun."?
metaphor
100
What motif is used here? "How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!"
musicality
100
What season is it?
summer
200
Who is a master swordsman?
who is tybalt?
200
What is Friar trying to persuade Romeo to do?
keep him from rushing into marriage
200
What is "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief"
personification
200
What is the motif being used here: The earth that's Nature's mother is her tomb. What is her burying grave, that is her womb.
opposites - life/death
200
In what Italian city do the Capulets live?
Verona
300
Who notices that the morning is now gray?
who is friar laurence?
300
How will Juliet get to her own wedding?
she will tell her parents she is going to confession
300
What is "It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like lightening..."?
simile
300
What is the motif used here: Within the infant rind of this weak flower Poison hath residence and medicine power
opposites - life/death
300
What is the Prince's name?
Escalus
400
Who is being compared to the sun?
juliet
400
why is mercutio making fun of romeo?
He thinks he is still hung up on Rosaline.
400
What is "She will endite him to some supper"?
malapropism
400
What is the motif being used here: Had she affections and youthful blood, She would be as swift in motion as a ball; ...But old folks, many feign as they were dead"
opposites - old/young
400
When is Lammas Eve?
July 31
500
Who is being compared to a cat?
tybalt
500
What is something that Mercutio and Nurse have in common?
they both like to "mess" with their friends.
500
What is "Without his roe, like a dried herring."?
pun
500
What is the motif being used here: He fights as you sing pricksong -- keeps time, distance, and proportion; he rests his minim rests, one, two, and the third in your bosom!
musicality
500
Why didn't wealthy mothers nurse their own babies?
Breastfeeding was "beneath" them.