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Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Dramatic Dialogue
Literary Devices
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What does the audience learn about the two families in the Prologue?

What is the two families have been feuding for years and the fighting has recently flared up again?

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What have Romeo and Juliet decided to do at the end of the balcony scene?
What is get married
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Why do Capulet and Lady Capulet think Juliet is upset?
What is she is grieving over Tybalt's death
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Two characters conversing in a scene

What is dialogue?

100

The literary device used in this line from Romeo:

“For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as a winged messenger of heaven..." (2.2.26-28).

What is simile?

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Who tries to stop the fight?

What is Benvolio

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Where has Romeo hidden himself to see Juliet?
What is he has jumped over the orchard wall into her back yard and is hiding behind a tree
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Why won't Romeo fight Tybalt?
What is because he has just married Juliet and is now related to him
200

A speech that a character might give while alone on stage, revealing their inner thoughts or feelings

What is a soliloquy?

200

The literary device used in this line from Romeo:

"Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health" (1.1.200-205)!

What is oxymoron?

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Who wants the fight to continue?
What is Tybalt
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Why does Friar Lawrence first say no to marrying Romeo and Juliet? Why does he later change his mind?
What is he first believes that it is too soon, but changes his mind when he thinks the marriage might end the feud
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Why does Mercutio fight Tybalt?
What is he think that Romeo is being a coward
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A comment made by a character either to themselves, another character on stage, or to the audience that no other characters can hear

What is an aside?

300

The literary device most clearly used in the following lines:

"...there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!" (2.2.71-73).

What is hyperbole?

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Where does the play take place?
What is Verona, Italy
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What does Mercutio say about Tybalt in regards to his sword fighting?
What is that he is the best, "the king of cats"
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Who tells the Prince what has happened and who doesn't believe this person?
What is Benvolio and Lady Capulet
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A speech that a character might give, addressed to other characters on the stage with them

What is a monologue?

400

The literary device used in this line:

"Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit" (1.1.237-238).

What is allusion?

500

How does the fight between the Capulet and Montague servants begin?

What is Sampson thumbs his nose at the Montagues and then says that his master is better than theirs.

500
What does Juliet say about names (balcony scene)?
What is that names don't matter. Romeo would still be the same person no matter what his name was. "That which we call a rose would still smell as sweet".
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Why does Romeo blame Juliet for the fight?
What is he says that Juliet has unmanned him and made him weak
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Romeo and Juliet traded off lines of this particular type of poetic verse during their first meeting and dialogue together

What is a sonnet?

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The literary device used in this line from Lord Capulet:

"The earth hath swallow'd all my hopes but she" (1.2.284).

What is personification?