Romeo
Juliet
The Play
Literary Terms
Shakespeare
100

Romeo's family name. 

What is Montague? 


100

Juliet's family name.

What is Capulet? 


100

The very first part of the play

What is the Prologue?

100

Comparing to things with the use of "like, or as" 

What is simile?

100

Literary period to which Shakespeare belonged. 

What is the renaissance? 

200

Object on the sky that Romeo compares Rosaline to. 

What is the moon? 


200

Object on the sky that Romeo compares Juliet to. 

What is the sun? 


200

What happens in Act 1, Scene 1. 

What is fighting in the streets. 

200

Meter used by Shakespeare. 

What is iambic pentameter? 

200

System of order. 

What is the great chain of Being?

300

Romeo's antagonist.

Who is Tybalt? 

300

Object that Juliet does not want Romeo to swear his love by. 

What is the moon? 


300

The Scene in which Romeo and his friends attend Capulet's party. 

What is A1S5?

300

Form used by Shakespeare to allow his characters to express true love. 

What is a Shakespearian Sonnet? 

300

People who were not allowed to perform or join a theater group at this time. 

What is women? 


400

Romeo's friend who wants to keep the peace. 

Who is Benvolio? 

400

An object that would smell as sweet by any other name. 

What is a rose? 


400

The act in which Capulet tells Paris to woo Juliet, but that she is too young to marry. 

What is Act 1, Scene 2. 

400

A recurring, thematic, element. 

What is a motif? 

400

The name of the theater that hosted most of Shakespeare's plays. 

What is the Globe? 


500

Literary term used by Shakespeare to foreshadow what will happen later by having Romeo and Juliet speak ill of the future. 

What is dramatic irony?

500
The typical age for women to be married at Shakespeare's time. 

what is 24-26? 

500

The scene also referred to as "The Balcony Scene". 

Act 2, Scene 2. 

500

Using contrasting ideas to create a single descriptive word. 

What is an oxymoron? 


500
A Company of actors for which Shakespeare wrote most of his plays, (and played secondary roles as well) 

What was Lord Chamberlain's Men?