Guess Who?
Where Were We?
Who Said It?
Shakespeare/R & J Background
Figurative Language
100

Juliet's parents want her to marry whom?

Paris 

100

Where did Romeo and Juliet get Married?

The church

100

Oh Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name: or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet.

Juliet!

100

What was one thing you could buy at concessions at a Shakespearean play? 

Oranges, meat pies, or....tomatoes.

100

What type of figurative language is this an example of?

"But soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."

metaphor

200

Name the first person who died

Mercutio (Romeo's Friend)

200

Where did Romeo and Juliet first meet?

The party at the Capulets

200

Who said to Romeo of Rosaline, "Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow".

Benvolio.

200

William Shakespeare is often credited as _____?

The greatest writer of all time.

200

To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy

hyperbole

300

Who killed Tybalt?

Romeo

300

Where did the most famous scene in the story take place? (hint: Wherefore art thou Romeo?)

On Juliet's balcony

300

To what does Romeo first compare Juliet during the balcony scene?

To the morning Sun.

300

Shakespeare lived in the 16th and 17th centuries which is what in years? 

The 1500 and 1600s. 

300

 Then love-devouring Death do what he dare... 

personification

400

Who performs Romeo and Juliet's marriage?

Friar Lawrence

400

What does "Wherefore art thou Romeo" mean?

Why are you Romeo (a Montague)?

400

Right before he dies, who says, "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me!"
(3.1.95-6)

Mercutio

400

What was the name of Shakespeare's theater? 

The Globe

400

What is soliloquy?

A speech delivered while the speaker is alone.

500

Who is Juliet's confidante and messenger?

Nurse

500

In what city does this play take place?

Verona

500

Who says, "See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!"

Romeo

500

What is one phrase from the Dr. Eliot Engle video that is credited to William Shakespeare? 

-Foot loose and fancy free, the bottom of your heart, high and dry, piece of cake, budge not an inch, tongue-tied, a tower of strength, in a pickle, hood winked, knitted your brow, made virtue of necessity, insisted on fair play, slept not a wink, stood on ceremony, laughed [yourself] into stitches, made short shift, cold comfort, too much of a good thing, cleared your baggage, high time, that's the long and short of it, the game is up, your own flesh and blood, crack of dawn, lie low, through thick and thin, foul play, dead as a doornail, an eyesore, send [me] packing, stony-hearted villain, laughing stock, good riddance, blithering idiot, what the dickens, by job, tut tut, oh lord. 

500

What is this an example of?

"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!"

paradox 


(would also accept oxymoron as they are basically the same--paradox is at the phrase level/oxymoron is at the word level)