Wilton final

Shakespeare uses a prologue to inform the audience that?

the lovers from the feuding families will die

what term does the chorus use to describe the lovers?

star-crossed

On what day did Romeo and Juliet meet?

Sunday

Mercutio can be described as a foil to Romeo because

unlike Romeo, he does not take love seriously

An aside is spoken --

by a character to the audience or another character that others onstage are not supposed to hear

What point does Prince Escalus of Verona make in his dramatic monologue to the Montague and Capulet families?

Anyone who continues the feud between the families will be put to death

A tragedy is defined by all of the following qualities except

a happy ending results after serious actions and complications

"O, Speak again, bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head. As is a winged messenger of heaven"

Romeo

"What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot. Nor arm, nor face. O. be some other name/belonging to a man. / What's in a name?"

Romeo's name is an accident of birth, not an essential part of him

Juliet quickly admits her love to Romeo because-

he has overheard her thinking aloud about her love for him

What do Juliet and Romeo decide to do about their love?

They plan to have Friar Laurence marry them

The purpose of humor rising from the nurse's comic character is to

provide relief from the tragedy

Friar Laurence scolds Romeo because

Romeo is so changeable in love.

In act 2, the action focuses on the plans of Romeo and Juliet. When the Nurse brings Juliet the message from Romeo, the nurse intensifies the moment by -

going on and on about her pains, thus leaving Juliet in suspense

When a character delivers a soliloquy, he or she

expresses private thoughts to the audience

Romeo says to the audience "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?" This form of speech is

an aside

Dramatic irony occurs when

the audience knows something other characters do not

In scene 1, mercutio speaks the following line: "Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk?" Mercutio wants tybalt to...

give up the fight

At first, Romeo doesn't want to fight Tybalt because Romeo

is now related to Tybalt by marriage

The prince punishes Romeo by

Banishing him from Verona forever

All of the following consequences result from Romeo's killing of Tybalt except

Juliet decides that Paris is more honorable than Romeo

Lord Capulet responds to the death of Tybalt by

Arranging the immediate marriage of Paris and Juliet

The turning point in Romeo and Juliet occurs when

Romeo kills Tybalt

Which serves as a complication to the main conflict?

Lord Capulet arranges for his daughter to marry Paris

As Juliet encounters more conflicts and problems, her character changes, and she

pushes away her elders and threatens suicide

Friar Laurence thinks Juliet is brave enough to take the sleeping potion because

she has said that lying in a tomb is better than life w/o Romeo

Juliet surprises Lord Capulet on her return from Friar Laurence's cell by

agreeing to marry Paris and act as obedient daughter

While Juliet puts Friar Laurence's plans into action, she asks Nurse to-

stay with Lady Capulet for the night

In her soliloquy, Juliet admits that-

she is afraid

How is Juliet's supposed death discovered?

Nurse goes to wake Juliet on her wedding day

A possible Shakespeare includes the scene between Peter and the musicians is to

illustrate that life goes on amid tragedy

"What if it be a poison which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead. Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored Because he married me before Romeo"

What if the friar gave me the real poison?

Romeo's servant, not Friar John, brings Romeo news that

Juliet is dead

When Romeo arrives at the tomb, he discovers Paris and

kills him in a duel

The Prince learns the truth about Romeo and Juliet from

Friar Laurence

How does "heaven," or "fate," punish the Capulets and the Montagues for their feud?

Their children fall in love but lose their lives as a result of the feud

At the play's end both families plan to

erect a memorial to the lovers

The line "Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books" includes an example of

simile

"For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout. His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt."

an aside

When Romeo hears that Juliet is dead, the dramatic irony lies in the fact that

the audience knows Juliet is not dead

Which bests states a possible theme of the play?

Hatred leads to violence, destruction, and waste

a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow

tragedy

Line of poetry that has five "feet" or clusters of two syllables adding up to 10 syllables in a line

Iambic pentameter

a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words

pun

a long speech in which a character is alone and expresses his/her thoughts aloud

soliloquy

Two rhyming lines, in Shakespeare's plays, that usually signal the audience the end of a scene

couplet

Spoken words that are not supposed to be heard by other characters

aside

When an audience knows something that a character does not

dramatic irony

A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

meter

the character or force that works against the protagonist; introduces the conflict

antagonist

figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or some abstraction

apostrophe

a reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art, or music

allusion

poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

blank verse

"This is that banish'd haughty Montague, That murder'd my love's cousin, with which grief, it is supposed the fair creature died;"

Paris

"If ever you disturb our streets again/ Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace"

Prince Escalus

"I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault, and presently took post to tell it you"

Balthasar

"Ah, dear Juliet! Why art thou yet so fair?"

Romeo

"Ask for me in the morning, and you shall find me a grave man."

Mercutio

"My child is but a stranger in the world./ She hath not seen the change of 14 years"

Capulet

"Help me into some house, Benvolio"

Mercutio

"For this alliance may so happy prove"

Laurence

"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night"

Montague

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose"

Juliet

When was Shakespeare born?

April 23, 1564

Where was Shakespeare born?

Stratford-upon-Avon

How many plays did Shakespeare write?

37

How many acts are in Shakespeare's plays?

five

In the globe theater, the lighting was provided by

daylight

Theatrical scenery in Shakespeare's time

was suggested by the language of the play

All of Shakespeare's women characters

originally were played by men and boys

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