Characters
Dramatic Conventions
Plot
Who said it?
What does it mean?
Written Structure
100

Romeo's Last Name

Juliet's Last Name

Romeo Montague

Juliet Capulet

100

"Death is my son in law" is an example of what type of figurative language?

Personification

100

What does the Prologue of the play foreshadow?

The deaths of Romeo & Juliet

100

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun"

Romeo; compares Juliet to the sun 

100

What is the beginning part of the play called when we're given an overview of the plot?

The Prologue

200

Who do Romeo & Juliet trust with the knowledge of their wedding?

Friar Lawrence & The Nurse

200

"You have dancing shoes with nimble soles, I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move" is an example of:

Pun

200

Where is Romeo banished from?

Verona, Italy

200

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Juliet; Romeo would still have the same personal qualities if he had a different name.

200

How are plays split up? (2 answers)

Acts & Scenes

300

Who tells Romeo the news of Juliet's death?

Balthasar

300
Lord Capulet thanking Friar Lawrence for convincing Juliet to marry Paris is an example of:

Dramatic Irony

300

After the wedding, explain the deaths in Act 3 scene 1 (the fight scene). (Who started the fight, why, and how did this scene end?)

Tybalt wants to fight Romeo, Romeo declines. Mercutio tries to defend Romeo's honor by fighting Tybalt. Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt out of revenge.

300

"The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness, and in the taste confounds the appetite."

Friar Lawrence; too much of a good thing all at once can be harmful or dangerous.

300

A long monologue where they talk about their innermost thoughts and feelings.

Soliloquy

400

Who discovers Juliet's dead body in Act 4?

The Nurse

400

"Cold fire, sick health" and "Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical" are examples of what type of figurative language?

Oxymoron

400

Why didn't Romeo hear of the plan, and in turn, think Juliet was actually dead?

Friar John couldn't deliver the letter to Romeo because he was quarantined after visiting the sick.

400

"A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world — why, he's a man of wax."

Nurse; commenting that Paris is handsome.

400

What poetic form are the prologues written in? (14 lines, ending in a rhyming couplet)

Sonnet

500

Who's death is the last one we learn about in the play?

Lady Montague

500
Shakespeare ends a very tense scene with a lighthearted argument between the musicians and Peter, is an example of what dramatic convention?

Comic Relief

500

What is the final moment of suspense in Romeo & Juliet (in the Capulet tomb)?

Romeo notes the signs of life in Juliet (rosy cheeks, red lips, warm to the touch).

500

"For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

Prince Escalus; there was never a bigger tragedy than Romeo & Juliet.

500

What is the rhyming meter that the play is written in?

Iambic Pentameter