Who Said It?
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Juliet
What city serves as the primary setting for the play?
Verona (Italy)
What is the name of Juliet’s hot-tempered cousin who loves to fight?
Tybalt
When Juliet talks to herself out loud on her balcony, unaware Romeo is listening, she is delivering this type of speech.
A soliloquy
Shakespeare wrote his plays during a specific historical era in England named after the reigning queen. What is this era called?
The Elizabethan Era
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Mercutio
Why does Romeo crash the Capulet party in Act 1?
To see Rosaline
Who functions as a peacemaker in the play, constantly trying to stop fights before they start?
Benvolio
In the phrase "brawling love" or "loving hate," Shakespeare uses this device that places two opposite words together.
Oxymoron
What insult do the Capulet servants use to provoke the Montague servants in the opening scene of the play?
Biting their thumbs
"Part, fools! Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
Benvolio
Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet in secret?
He hopes it will end the feud between their families.
Which character acts as a funny, talkative confidante and messenger?
The Nurse
When the audience knows Juliet is just asleep from a potion, but Romeo genuinely thinks she is dead, Shakespeare is using this device.
Dramatic Irony
What is the name of the fairy's midwife that Mercutio delivers a long, rambling, and wild monologue about in Act 1?
Queen Mab
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Romeo
Who kills Mercutio, and who kills Tybalt?
Who kills Mercutio, and who kills Tybalt?
This young nobleman is described as a "man of wax"
Count Paris
Mercutio makes a joke while dying, saying, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." What wordplay device is this?
A pun
Right before Juliet drinks Friar Laurence's potion, she delivers a terrified speech about all the things that could go wrong. Name the three specific fears she mentions.
he potion might actually be poison; she might wake up early and suffocate in the tomb; she might go mad from seeing Tybalt's rotting ghost.
"Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene..."
The Chorus
Why doesn't Romeo receive Friar Laurence's letter explaining Juliet's fake death?
Friar John was quarantined due to an outbreak of the plague.
In the very opening scene of the play, Shakespeare uses comedy and violence among minor characters to show how deep the family feud runs. Name two of the Capulet servants who start the initial street brawl by biting their thumbs.
Sampson and Gregory
When Lady Capulet compares Paris to a beautiful book that only lacks a cover (Juliet) in Act 1, Scene 3, she carries this single comparison out over several lines. What is this called?
An extended metaphor
A certain theater law dictated a major difference in how Romeo and Juliet was originally performed compared to modern times. What was this law?
Women were banned from acting on stage