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This character said... "A plague o' both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio?
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Samson and Gregory performed this action toward the Capulets to instigate the brawl in Act 1, Scene 1.
What is thumb-biting?
100
This character's death is left out of both film adaptations we watched in class.
Who is Paris?
100
The prologue is an example of this poetic form.
What is a sonnet?
100
Juliet is this age at the time of her marriage and its consummation.
What is 13?
200
This character said... "O, I am fortune's fool!"
Who is Romeo?
200
After Romeo's death, Friar Lawrence attempts to bring Juliet here.
What is a nunnery?
200
Unsuccessfully attempts to stop the Act I street brawl.
Who is Benvolio?
200
Romeo's line "My mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels" is an example of this.
What is foreshadowing?
200
Characters frequently blame this force for much of the play's events.
What is Fate or Destiny?
300
This character said... "O, happy dagger! Thy sheath is here!"
Who is Juliet?
300
This is the reason that Romeo was banished and not killed.
What is the fact that Tybalt would have been executed for killing Mercutio?
300
This dead character was related to the Prince.
Who is Mercutio?
300
When a character breaks the fourth wall and speaks directly to the audience.
What is an aside?
300
Juliet tells Romeo to not swear his love by this.
What is the moon?
400
This character said... "What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other word would smell as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
400
This is how Romeo and Benvolio learned of the Capulet party.
Who is the illiterate messenger who asked them for help?
400
"The King of Cats"
Who is Tybalt?
400
"Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O heavy lightness, serious vanity; Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" These lines contain numerous examples of this.
What is oxymoron?
400
Balthasar does this when Romeo enters the Capulet tomb.
What is fall asleep?
500
This character said... "She could have run and waddled all about; For even the day before, she broke her brow, And then my husband—God be with his soul! 'A was a merry man—took up the child: 'Yea,' quoth he, 'dost thou fall upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; Wilt thou not, Jule?' and, by my holidam The pretty wretch left crying and said 'Ay.' To see, now, how a jest shall come about!"
Who is the Nurse?
500
This major character does not appear in Act IV.
Who is Romeo?
500
This character literally died of grief.
Who is Lady Montague?
500
This is the metrical form (or "beat") of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is iambic pentameter?
500
The scene of Romeo's departure from Verona is set here.
Where is Juliet's Balcony?