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What's the point?
Who said it?
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100

Juliet complains that the nurse takes too long to bring her news in act 2, Juliet can be described as:

What is impatient?

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 is what "unclean" means in the prologue "Where civil blood makes civil hands unlcean": Guilty or Dirty?

What is Guilty?

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

"Tempt not a desperate man?"

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 theme of Romeo and Juliet based on the Elizabethan belief that one's life was determined by the stars

What is fate is unavoidable?

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

Which line is an instance of personification:

JULIET: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words

Of thy tongue's uttering, yet I know the

sound.

Art thou not Romeo and a Montague?

ROMEO: Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.

What is "my ears have not yet drunk"?

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

Example of the theme of fate:

What is Prologue stating they will die & end the feud, Romeo's dream, Oh I am fortunes fool, etc.

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?