Figurative Language
Questions about the text
What's the point?
Who said it?
Facts and things to know
100

The definition of this word is a reoccurring idea throughout a piece of writing.

What is a theme?

100

Why is Romeo so upset about being banished ?

What is Romeo believes this to be a fate worse than death because Juliet is still in Verona?

100

From the prologue, how do we learn the feud will end?

What is "their children's end"?

100

"A plague upon both your houses!!!"

Who is Mercutio?
100

This is how Capulet and Montague plan to show the feud is over

What is erect gold statues of one another's children?

200

Speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any listeners, especially by a character in a play.

What is a soliloquy?

200
Romeo is a member of what family?

What is the Montagues?

200

This is the kind of play that "Romeo and Juliet" is....

What is a tragedy?

200

"Examine other beauties."

Who is Benvolio? 

200

This is where Romeo is banished to:

What is Mantua?

300

This figurative language allows a writer or speaker to place emphasis on things they choose as significant.

What is repetition?

300

Why can't Romeo and Juliet be together?

What is, they are from feuding families?

300

The words "blood," "piteous," "fatal," and "bury" used in the Prologue set a tone for the entire play, what is it?

What is a sorrowful tone?

300

"Did my heart not love until now?"

Who is Romeo?

300

The line, "these violent delights have violent ends," means what:

What is, something that starts fast will end just as fast

400

"The tree shook with fear," is an example of what kind of figurative language?

What is personification?

400

Which of the following supports the theme of fate?

  1. “And if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl,/ For now, these hot days , is the mad blood stirring.”

  2. “Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him>’

  3. “A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped.”

  4. “O, I am fortune’s fool!”

What is, "O, I am fortune's fool!"

400

This is the meaning of unclean in the excerpt, "Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean,"

What is guilty?

400

"All are punished!"

Who is the Prince?

400

"Romeo and Juliet" is Shakespeare's way of warning readers away from what?

What is an unrealistic view of love and being quick to action?

500

In literature, this explains the writer's attitude or feelings about the subject and how it is portrayed.

What is tone?

500

Based off this excerpt, "But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,

Tempering extremities with extreme sweet." What is a strength of Romeo and Juliet?

What is the intensity of their feelings?

500

In Act 3, Juliet impatiently watching the clock while waiting for the Nurse to return is an example of this theme:

What is young people lacking the quality of patience?

500

"The Earth hath swallowed all my hopes. But she. She is the hopeful lady of my Earth."

Who is Lord Capulet?

500

Juliet's tone in the statement, "Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight" is 

What is doubtful?