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Literary Terms
Characters 1
Plot 1
Plot 2
Quotes
100
A moment in which a character speaks to the audience without other characters "hearing"
What is an aside?
100
Romeo's original love interest that he supposedly will never forget (until five minutes later)
Who is Rosaline?
100
The city where the majority of the play takes place.
What is Verona?
100
The penalty for any person from either the Capulet or Montague family caught fighting.
What is death?
100
Is she a Capulet? Oh dear account! My life is in my foe's debt.
Who is Romeo?
200
A character that has depth and can be viewed as a "real person"
What is a round (dynamic) character?
200
A motherly figure to Juliet, only a servant but cares deeply
Who is Nurse?
200
This is what Juliet says about marrying County Paris.
What is something she dreams not of?
200
The person that reluctantly sold a poison to Romeo.
What is the apothecary?
200
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Who is Juliet?
300
The poor people that came to watch the plays- they often had to stand around the stage in the mud
What are groundlings?
300
The cousin to Lady Capulet, an excellent swordsman with a quick temper
Who is Tybalt?
300
The place where Romeo and Juliet first meet.
What is the Capulet masquerade?
300
The man that banishes rather than executes Romeo after Tybalt's and Mercutio's deaths.
Who is Prince Escalus?
300
Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
Who is Nurse?
400
The style in which Shakespeare wrote; ten syllables (five stressed, five unstressed)
What is iambic pentameter?
400
A count that is favored by Lord Capulet and asks for Juliet's hand in marriage
Who is Paris?
400
Friar Lawrence agrees to wed Romeo and Juliet in hopes of doing this.
What is ending the feud?
400
The reason that Friar John could not deliver Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo.
What is quarantine due to plague?
400
A plague on both your houses! They have made worms meat out of me.
Who is Mercutio?
500
A secondary character that is often used to develop a primary character's personality
What is a dramatic foil?
500
Nephew of Lord Montague, hot tempered, but usually tries to stop the fights
Who is Benvolio?
500
The man under whose arm Mercutio was stabbed.
Who is Romeo?
500
Juliet will do this if she wakes too early in her family's crypt.
What is "dash out her desp'rate brains"?
500
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished; for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Who is Prince Escalus?