"Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona where we lay our scene."
What is The Chorus or Prologue?
100
Pun
What is a play on words?
100
"Let two more summers wither in their pride,
Ere we think her ripe to be a bride."
What is Capulet's reply to Paris' request?
100
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
What is Juliet's analysis of Romeo's name?
100
'O Juliet, I already know thy grief.
It strains me past the compass of my wits."
What is Friar Laurence's greeting to Juliet?
200
"For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your household's rancor to pure love."
Who is Friar Laurence
200
Aside
What is it when the actor talks to the audience and the other actors pretend not to hear?
200
"If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
What is the Prince's decree after the street brawl?
200
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say it lightnens."
What is Juliet's first reaction to their love?
200
"Shall I not be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in?"
What is one of Juliet's fears before she swallows the potion?
300
"Compare her face with some that I will show
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow."
Who is Benvolio
300
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to non-human entities?
300
"This by his voice should be a Montague!"
What is Tybalt's reaction to seeing Romeo at the party?
300
"An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend;
An you be not, hang. beg, starve, die in the streets..."
What is Capulet's reply to Juliet's refusal to marry Paris?
300
"Alas my liege, my wife is dead tonight."
What happened to Lady Montague?
400
"O mischief, thou are swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!"
Who is Romeo?
400
soliloquy
What is it when the actor is alone on stage giving a dramatic monologue?
400
"I was your mother much upon these years that you are a maid."
What is Lady Capulet's talk with Juliet about marrying Paris?
400
"A plague on both your houses. They have made worm's meat of me!"
What is Mercutio's dying curse?
400
"O I am slain. If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb and lay me with Juliet."
What does Paris say as he dies?
500
"See what a scourge is laid upon your hate
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love."
Who is the Prince
500
Oxymoron
What is a two word paradox?
500
"O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!'
What is Romeo's reaction to seeing Juliet?
500
"What rouse thee, man. Thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead;
Tybalt would kill thee....
The law that threatened death becomes thy friend..."
What is Friar Laurence's "pack of blessings?"
500
"For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."