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100
My name means swift and quick.
Who is Mercutio?
100

ten syllables, unstressed/stressed pattern

What is iambic pentameter?

100
The name of the city where Romeo hides
What is Mantua?
100
My only love, sprung from my only hate!
Who is Juliet?
100
Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon
What is personification?
200
My name means benevolent.
Who is Benvolio?
200

two successive rhyming lines

What is a couplet?

200
The length of time that Juliet would be "dead"
What is forty-two hours?
200
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;
Who is Lady Capulet?
200
The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
What is a couplet?
300
The Prince's kinsman; first person killed
Who is Mercutio?
300

rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet

What is a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,g

300
The name of the person that Romeo bought poison from
What is the apothecary?
300
Both by myself and many other friends; But he, his own affections' counselor, Is to himself
Who is Lord Montague?
300

Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye

What is personification?

400
I am described as the Prince of Cats.
Who is Tybalt?
400

lengthy speech, not heard by other characters, in which a character expresses thoughts

What is a soliloquy?

400
The person who tried to deliver the letter to Romeo?
Who is Friar John?
400
Patience perforce with willful choler meeting Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting. I will withdraw; but this instrusion shall, Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall.
Who is Tybalt?
400
...there is thy gold---worse poison to men's souls...
What is a metaphor?
500
I had a daughter named Susan.
Who is the Nurse?
500

Contrasting items are placed next to each other

What is juxtaposition?

500
The specific amount of money Romeo used to buy the poison
What is forty ducats?
500
Go, counselor! Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.
Who is Juliet?
500
"Young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so true When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid!"
What is an allusion?