Characters
This character is a jem! She is the jule of her family.
Who is Juliet?
The play is set in this fair Italian city.
Where is Verona?
This is a long speech given by a single character on stage.
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Who is Juliet?
Romeo and Juliet meet at a party hosted by this family.
Who are the Capulets?
This character is soooo romantic! He is in love with love?
Who is Romeo?
This is where Romeo and Juliet declare their love for one another.
Where is the balcony? (woops -- she might fall!)
This is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Romeo is exiled from Verona for killing this character.
This character is a hot-headed fighter.
Where is Mantua?
This is a play on words, or word-play.
What is a pun?
"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
Who is Juliet? (she gets all the good lines)
Juliet agrees to drink poison that makes her appear dead for this reason.
What is avoiding marrying Paris? (the old, rich dude her father made a deal with)
This is where Juliet takes a sleeping potion that makes her appear dead. (silly girl!)
Where is Capulet's Tomb?
This the kind of irony where the audience knows something that the characters do not know. Ex. Juliet is only sleeping -- really sleeping!
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio? (after they have mortally wounded him - by accident)
Romeo actually kills himself because...
This character is quite mercurial, or moody and unpredictable.
Who is Mercutio?
The play opens with a street brawl between these two feuding families.
Who are the Montagues and the Capulets?
This is a reference to something outside of the play that the audience probably knows about in history or mythology.
What is an allusion? (not an illusion - magic trick)
"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Who is Prince Escalus?
Juliet finally, actually kills herself with this.
What is a dagger? (knife, cuts both ways, surgical tool to remove the plague on both their houses)