Vocabulary
Literary Concepts
Who said it?
Acts
Acts
100
fickle
What is inconstant emotionally
100
A character who highlights the traits of another character trough contrast.
What is a dramatic foil
100
"I tell thee - get thee to church on Thursday or never after look me in the face."
What is Lord Capulet
100
How many deaths occurred in Romeo and Juliet?
What is 6
100
What does Romeo compare his lips to?
What is blushing pilgrims
200
entreat
What is to ask urgently
200
A form of poetry: used by Shakespeare when writing verse in which each line contained 5 beats with the stress on the second syllable.
What is iambic pentameter
200
"I'll look to like, if looking liking move..."
What is Juliet
200
Who did Tybalt kill?
What is Mercutio
200
What is Friar Lawrence's reaction to Romeo's request to be married?
What is suprised
300
procure
What is to obtain or get through effort
300
The audience knows things that the character do not know.
What is dramatic irony
300
"But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her consent is but a part."
What is Capulet
300
Romeo was exiled to where?
What is Mantua.
300
What token does Juliet give to the nurse to give to Romeo?
What is a ring
400
pensive
What is troubled by deep thoughts
400
A drama i which the central character, who is usually of noble stature, meets with disaster or great misfortune.
What is tragedy
400
"My only love sprung from my only hate!"
What is Juliet
400
As revealed in Lord Capulet's dialogue with Paris in Act I, Juliet hath not seen the change of how many years?
What is 14
400
What does Juliet place by her bedside as she take the sleeping potion?
What is a dagger
500
pernicious
What is having a harmful effect
500
ordinary writing that is not poetry, drama, or song
What is prose
500
"So soon forgotten? Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes."
What is Friar Lawrence
500
What caused Lady Montague's death?
What is grief.
500
Who are the princes two kinsmen that die in the play?
What is Mercutio and Paris