Q: What type of verse is Romeo and Juliet written in? What meter does this type of verse use?
A: Blank verse and sonnets; Iambic Pentameter
Q: Name two characters who serve as comic relief in Romeo and Juliet.
A: Mercutio and the Nurse
Q: Name the pairs of character foils presented in Romeo and Juliet.
A: Tybalt and Benvolio; Romeo and Mercutio
Q: “Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.”
A: Personification
Q: “This may flies do, when I from this must fly.”
A: Pun
Q: “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”
A: Pun
Q: “Misshapen in the conduct of them both, / Like powder in a skilless soldier’s flask.”
A: Simile
Q: “Such a wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the West.”
A: Allusion
Q: “Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”
A: Foreshadowing
Q: “I’ll say yon grey is not the morning’s eye, / ‘Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow.”
A: Allusion
Q: “That ‘banished,’ that one word ‘banished,’ / hath slain ten thousand Tybalts.”
A: Hyperbole
Q: “O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle.”
A: Apostrophe
Q: “Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back / With twenty hundred thousand times more joy.”
A: Hyperbole