Characters
Pattern
Plot
Quotes
Short Answers
100
Juliet's intended husband
Who is Romeo?
100
The name of Act 3 in Shakespeare's pattern for building a tragedy?
What is Crisis/Turning Point?
100
Way that the nurse intensifies the feeling of Action in Act 2 when she comes back from speaking to Romeo.
What is goes on an on about all her aches and pains instead of telling Juliet what Romeo said.
100
"A pair o star-crossed lovers take their lives."
What is chorus in the prologue?
100
A complication to Romeo and Juliet's love.
What is their family feud or Juliet being promised to marry Paris?
200
Romeo's first crush.
Who is Rosaline?
200
Act 5: The Climax/Resolution of a Tragedy always contains this.
What is death of the main characters?
200
Friar Laurence's motive for marrying Romeo and Juliet.
What is bring peace to the families.
200
"Tybalt, you ratcatcher, you will walk?"
Who is Mercutio to Tybalt before their fight scene?
200
An example of foreboding.
What is Romeo's dream before the party OR Tybalt's anger towards Romeo?
300
Name for the pharmacist that gives Romeo drugs.
What is an apothecary?
300
Events that take place in Act 2: Rising Action?
What is balcony scene and wedding?
300
Romeo's reason for not fighting Tybalt.
What is he is now his cousin by marriage?
300
"O true apothecary! They drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
Who is Romeo when he commits suicide at Juliet's tomb?
300
The role of the nurse in the play.
What is comic relief?
400
Romeo's foil.
Who is Mercutio?
400
The explanation given for Act 4.
What is falling action?
400
Before taking her drug to make her sleep in the tomb, Juliet admits this in her soliloquy.
What is she will find it unbearable to be with Tybalt's dead body?
400
"See what a scourge is laid upon your hate..."
Who is the Prince after all the bodies are discovered at the tomb?
400
Shakespeare's hometown.
What is Stratford-Avon?
500
Shakespeare's wife
Who is Anne Hathaway?
500
The name and purpose of Act 1
What is Exposition to set up characters, conflict and setting.
500
When the audience knows that Juliet is alive while Romeo thinks she is dead, that is an example of this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
500
My child is yet a stranger in the world, She hath not seen the change of fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Who is Capulet in Act 1 telling Paris to wait to marry Juliet?
500
Shakespeare's last request as printed on his tombstone.
What is no one move his bones?