Show:
Literary Devices
Act I
Act II
Act III
Act IV & V
100
a conversation between or among characters
What is dialogue?
100
The play takes place here
What is Verona, Italy
100
Friar Lawrence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet for this reason
What is bringing peace between the families?
100
Benvolio's opening lines foreshadow this event. "And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring."
What is the fight?
100
The kind of irony expressed in Paris' words to the Friar: "Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, / And therefore have I little talked of love."
What is dramatic irony?
200
"Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit / by Cupid's arrow." "Cupid's arrow is an example of this literary device
What is an allusion
200
The penalty for Capulet and Montague should another fight break out
What is death?
200
Romeo's spiritual advisor
Who is Friar Lawrence?
200
The name Tybalt calls Romeo
What is villain?
200
This is one of the many anxieties expressed by Juliet about the potion.
What is it won't work? What is it will kill me? What is I'll awake too early? What is I'll suffocate?
300
"Examine every married linement, And see how one another lends content; And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margent of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him only lacks a cover." Lady Capulet is using one of these to describe Paris
What is an extended metaphor?
300
This part, spoken by the chorus, sets the scene for the play as a whole.
What is the prologue?
300
This character is sent as a messenger to Romeo to find out about his romantic intentions.
Who is the nurse?
300
The kind of speech Juliet, alone in the orchard, delivers in which she eagerly anticipates Romeo's arrival at nightfall.
What is a soliloquy?
300
This causes the important message to Romeo to be delayed.
What is his messenger is detained?
400
unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
400
This cautions Romeo from attending Capulet's party.
What is a dream?
400
The motif presented in the following lines: "O speak again, bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head"
What is light?
400
Juliet believes she hears this sound first when she's with Romeo.
What is the nightingale?
500
"Damned saint" and "honorable villain" are examples of this literary device.
What is an oxymoron?
500
Romeo's first love
Who is Rosaline?
500
Friar Lawrence's advice to Romeo about love
What is "love moderately?"
500
The nightingale and the lark represent this motif.
What is light and dark?
500
He reports the message of Juliet's death.
Who is Balthasar?