“She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to tell it now.”
Who is Rosaline?
100
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Who is Juliet?
100
Mercutio can be described as one
of these to Romeo because
unlike Romeo, he does not take
love seriously.
What is a FOIL?
100
When the audience knows something that
the characters in a play do not, we call it this.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
100
The fight in Scene 1 starts when these
people start quarreling over petty insults
Who are Capulet and Montague servants?
Or
Who are Sampson and Gregory and Abram?
200
“Good Peter, to hide her face;
for her fan’s the fairer face.”
Who is The Nurse?
200
“These violent delights have violent ends”
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume.”
Who is Friar Laurence?
200
Because the audience knows that Juliet
is alive, the scene in which the Capulets,
the Nurse, and Paris cry over her death
is an illustration of this.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
200
When Juliet stabs herself and dies, it is the most intense part of the story, also called this.
What is the CLIMAX?
200
This character wishes to marry a woman
he has not wooed.
Who is Paris?
300
“O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a wingèd messenger of heaven”
Who is Juliet?
300
“Eyes, look your last!?Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you?The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss?A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”
Who is Romeo?
300
When Romeo kills Tybalt this part
of the play occurs.
What is The TURNING POINT?
300
Shakespeare creates a sense of this in the
following passage about Romeo predicting
his death.
. . . . my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despisèd life, closed in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
What is FOREBODING?
300
This character scorns his only child and
vows to disown him/her.
Who is Lord Capulet?
400
“Though his face be better than any man’s,
yet his leg excels all men’s; and for a hand
and foot, and a body, though they be not to
be talked on, yet they are past compare.”
Who is Romeo?
400
No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a
church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for?me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
Who is Mercutio?
400
Lord Capulet’s insistence that the
wedding take place on Wednesday
and not Thursday is an
example of this.
What is a PLOT COMPLICATION?
400
When Mercutio says, “Ask for me tomorrow,
and you shall find me a grave man.” he is
creating a play on words also known as
one of theses.
What is a PUN?
400
This character recounts the events
of the killings of Mercutio and Tybalt
to the Prince.
Who is Benvolio?
500
“He fights as you sing pricksong—keeps
time, distance, and proportion;
he rests his minim rests, one, two and
the third in your bosom!
The very butcher of a silk button,
a duelist, a duelist!”
Who is Tybalt?
500
“Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:? For never was a story of more woe? Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Who is The Prince?
500
Juliet expresses her fears and doubts
in a speech best described as one of these.
What is a SOLILOQUY?
500
“Hatred leads to violence, destruction,
and waste.” is possibly what Shakespeare
was trying to tell audiences by writing
Romeo and Juliet. We also call it this.
What is a THEME?
500
In Scene 1, this character speaks the
following line: “Tybalt, you ratcatcher,
will you walk?”, challenging Tybalt
to a duel.