Characters
This character initially tries to maintain peace by refusing to fight Tybalt.
Who is Romeo?
This is the type of English Shakespeare uses in his writing.
What is Elizabethan English?
This is the major conflict at the root of Romeo and Juliet.
What is the family feud?
Stars and celestial bodies appear throughout the play, making it a motif. The use of "star-crossed" serves as a symbol for this.
What is destiny and/or fate?
Shakespeare uses this device throughout the play: "Dove-feathered raven" and "feather or lead".
What are paradoxes?
This character acts more like a mother to Juliet than Lady Capulet.
Who is Nurse?
All of Shakespeares comedies end this way.
What is everyone gets married?
This character, a man belonging to neither house, is the first to die in the play.
Who is Mercutio?
When Romeo and Juliet first meet, they speak in this structure, which supports the theme, love at first site exists.
What is a sonnet?
The literary device used here is this: "My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss".
What is personification?
This character agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
This is the way all tragedies end.
What is everyone dies?
Friar Lawrence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet for this reason.
What is ending the family feud?
This motif is presented in a few ways throughout the play: weapons, violence, and hatred. The motif is resolved at the end of the play, only after Romeo and Juliet end their lives.
What is the family feud?
This character uses this type of device while saying, "A plague on both your houses!". The purpose of using this device is to show that both houses are plagued by the disease of hate, and it continues to hurt innocent people around them.
This character uses dying moments to say, "A Plague on both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio?
Shakespeare created these two types of plays.
What are Comedies and Tragedies?
This character is responsible for Mercutio's death and dies at Romeo's hand in revenge.
Who is Tybalt?
The plot and ending of the play is divulged in the beginning of the play by using this dramatic technique.
What is a prologue?
This quote includes an example of this literary device: "What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name
Belonging to a man."
What is polysyndeton?
Juliet's parents arrange for her to marry this "handsome gentleman."
Who is Paris?
Shakespeare's theatre was forced to shut down twice because of this.
What is the plague?
Shakespeare plays with gender roles and gender expectations throughout the play, and the ending is no different. He flips the gender expectations by having Romeo and Juliet use what methods to take their own lives?
What is Romeo using poison and Juliet using a dagger?
There are repeated mentions of names, and their meaning, throughout the play. The reflection on the meanings of names can represent this.
What is identity?
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When Romeo sees Juliet dead, he comments on her appearance by saying, "Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks." The narrative technique used here is common to build suspense and create humor.
What is dramatic irony?