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Literary Devices
Plot
Quotes
Theme
Film v Text
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The literary device in this passage: Capulet: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. (4.5.29-30)
What is simile?
100
The person who travels to Mantua to tell Romeo of Juliet's death.
Who is Balthazar?
100
The speaker of : There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Who is Romeo?
100
The way the play represents old vs young.
What is sterile and dead vs wild and alive?
100
In the film, the last we see of Paris is when he meets Juliet at Lawrence's cell. This is what happened to him in the play.
What is he was killed by Romeo?
200
The name and significance of a long speech directly to the audience.
What is a soliloquy, that reveals the thoughts and feelings of the character.
200
The Nurse's advice after Capulet threatens to disown Juliet.
What is to marry Paris?
200
The speaker of: Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee.
Who is Juliet?
200
The comparison that the play constantly makes with love.
What is madness?
200
In the film, the Capulets are pictured at Juliet's funeral. In the play, this is what the Capulet's do when they find Juliet "dead".
What is mourn and tell each other how much they loved her?
300
The literary device that occurs when the Nurse brings news of Tybalt's death and says, "He's dead, he's dead", and Juliet thinks she means Romeo.
What is dramatic irony?
300
What Capulet and Montague do to end the feud.
What is build golden statues of their children and shake hands?
300
The speaker of: No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!
Who is Mercutio.
300
The metaphor the play constantly uses for Juliet's death.
What is for her wedding bed to be her grave?
300
In the film, Juliet wakes in the tomb and looks into Romeo's eyes as he drinks the poison. This is what happens in the play.
What is she wakes up to see Friar Lawrence, but then finds Romeo already dead?
400
This literary device is at work when we see the Capulets suffer after treating Juliet so poorly in Act 4.
What is Nemesis? (Or Poetic Justice)
400
The reason why Friar John was not able to deliver the letter to Romeo.
What is he was delayed by the plague? (People thought he was infected and they locked him in a house).
400
The speaker of: But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, And she, too desperate, would not go with me, But, as it seems, did violence on herself. ... And if aught in this Miscarried by my fault, let my old life Be sacrificed some hour before his time Unto the rigor of severest law.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
400
The theme that connects these events together: -Mercutio attacking Tybalt -Tybalt taking insult at Romeo -Who Romeo blames for Mercutio's death -The patriarchs (Montague and Capulet)
What is the male honour code that leads to a vicious cycle of violence and death?
400
In the film, the police and authorities find Romeo at the tomb because the helicopter spotted him. This is what happens in the play.
What is Paris's page runs to get the guards after seeing his master killed?
500
The literary device at play in the following lines: JULIET Indeed, I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him—dead— Is my poor heart for a kinsman vexed. Madam, if you could find out but a man To bear a poison, I would temper it, That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, Soon sleep in quiet. Oh, how my heart abhors To hear him named, and cannot come to him. To wreak the love I bore my cousin Upon his body that slaughtered him! (3.5.93-102)
What is double entendre?
500
What Juliet does after she learns Romeo killed Tybalt.
What is curse Romeo, calling him "damned saint".
500
The speaker of: Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Who is Juliet?
500
The theme that connects these moments: -Capulet telling Juliet she belongs to Paris -Paris "wooing" Juliet through impressing her parents -Juliet turning her back on her family and drinking the vial
What is misogyny--(the domination of women by men) and sexism and treating women like property--and its resistance by Juliet? Ultimately breaking our of her role causes her death.
500
An argument as to why the director left Paris out of the ending.
Variable answers: -modern audiences would lose sympathy for Romeo if he killed Paris -Romeo is not represented as insane in the film--he is more mad in the play -Paris distracts from the main focal point of the ending scene--he is more of a buffoon in the film