Plot and Setting
The play takes place in these two Italian cities.
What is Verona and Mantua?
Romeo and Benvolio are part of this family.
What is Montague?
The line, "I fear, too early, for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars," is an example of this literary device.
What is foreshadowing?
The reason Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.
What is He believes their marriage will end the family feud?
The reason Paris is at Juliet’s tomb when Romeo arrives.
What is he is there to mourn Juliet and strew flowers on her grave?
The main reason for the conflict between the Montague and Capulet families.
What is an ancient grudge?
Juliet is part of this family.
What is Capulet?
when the audience knows Juliet is alive, but Romeo believes she is dead is known as this.
What is dramatic irony?
Lord Capulet threatens to do this to Juliet if she refuses to marry Paris.
What is disown her, cast her out, and let her starve in the streets?
The last person the audience has learned has died.
Who is Lady Montague?
At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with this girl.
Who is Rosaline?
Tybalt's cousin.
Who is Juliet?
"Fire! A word fit for a fiddler, a word that burns" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
Juliet's main fear before drinking the potion in Act 4, Scene 3.
What is that she will wake up too early and go mad surrounded by dead bodies?
The reason the long-standing feud between the two families is finally resolved.
What is the death of their children (ends their hatred and they promise to erect statues)?
The person who convinced Romeo to attend the Capulet feast.
Who is Benvolio?
The Prince's brace of kinsmen killed.
Who is Mercutio and Paris?
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.'" is an example of this literary device.
What is simile?
Susan
Who is the Nurse's daughter, who died young?
The number of kinsmen the Prince lost to violence.
What is two (a brace)?
The Reason Romeo is banished from Verona.
What is for killing Tybalt?
Susan, born about the same time as Juliet, is the daughter of this character.
Who is the Nurse?
After being fatally stabbed by Tybalt, Mercutio minimizes his mortal wound as a scratch is this type of literary device.
What is understatement?
In the famous balcony scene, the Nurse serves primarily to do this.
What is call Juliet away from the balcony, interrupting the conversation?
The material used to construct the monument to Romeo and Juliet.
What is gold?