The place where the play is set | Verona, Italy |
The role Benvolio serves in the play | peacemaker |
The type of lovers Romeo and Juliet are said to be | star-crossed |
This character serves as a buffoon in the play | nurse |
People who seek love blindly at masquerade balls | masqueraders |
Where Juliet most likely recited her famous rose line in the Globe theatre | Inter (stage?) |
What Romeo “proposes” Friar Laurence do for him | marry him to juliet |
What Tybalt sent Romeo | a letter |
The place Romeo and Juliet plan to meet | Friar Laurence’s cell |
The reason Friar Laurence does not want Romeo and Juliet to be alone together before their marriage | SEX |
The person who wishes to start a fight with Romeo after the party | Tybalt |
The person Mercutio blames for his own death | Romeo |
The person who dies when Romeo avenges Mercutio’s death | tybalt |
What Romeo compares his banishment | death |
The reason we know it is morning after Romeo and Juliet’s first night together | the birds |
The person Juliet discovers at Friar Laurence’s cell | Paris |
Juliet’s plan if Laurence cannot prevent her marriage to Paris | kill herself |
The person Juliet suspects before drinking the potion | Friar Laurence |
The person who finds Juliet “dead” in her bedchamber | the nurse |
The place where Friar Laurence says Juliet is after her death | heaven |
The person whose poverty sells Romeo the poison | the apothecary |
The item that Romeo says is worse poison to men’s souls | gold |
The reason Friar Laurence’s letter fails to reach Romeo | quarantine |
The person who tempts a desperate man at Juliet’s tomb | Paris |
The number of people who lost their lives in the tragedy | 6 |
As the goddess of dawn, I draw the shady curtains starting in the East. | Arora |
As the goddess of chastity, I protect Rosaline from Romeo. | Diane |
I am a type of allusion that follows Roman and Greek gods. | … |
As a famous lover, Shakespeare alludes to my story. | Helena |
I am the Biblical reference Shakespeare alludes to when he writes, “Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!” | the apocalypes |
Lines like, “If he to me married my grave is like to be my wedding bed” will make me Juliet’s ultimate husband | death |
The use of plants like Rosemary may make you think of both of me. | weddings and funerals |
Friar Laurence uses these two items to foreshadow the untimely demise of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage | fire and powder |
As Mercutio’s curse, I afflict both families and ultimately prevent the delivery of Romeo’s letter | the plague |
Lines like ” Hath thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife” ultimately reveal what I am. | tools of death |
How you would be if someone bit his thumb at you in Shakespeare’s day | offended |
I am a device that allows Love to spring from hate | Oxymoron |
As a literary device, I say that a person like Paris is a book | metaphor |
As a literary device, I say that Romeo’s man as true as steel | simile |
I play with two meanings of one word like “temper” and “Execution” | pun |
As a poetic structure, I rhyme like this: “And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly. This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.” | couplet |
As a poetic structure, I rhyme like this: “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendor of mine own.” | heroiccomplete + noun |
As a poetic structure, I rhyme like this: “Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie, (A) And young affection gapes to be his heir. (B) That fair for which love groaned for and would die, (A) With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair.” (B) | couplet |
As a poetic structure, Shakespeare uses me for significant scenes like Romeo and Juliet’s first kiss | Shakespearean sonnet |
Shakespeare uses me to reveal the uneducated characters in the play | prose |
I am a symbol of the Capulets, like young Juliet who is “mewed up to her heaviness” | cat |
I am a symbol of the Montagues, like young Romeo who has “R” sound for a name | dog |
because juliet lights up romeo life, i am a symbol for juliet | sun |
Whether it’s doves, ravens, larks, nightingales, falcons, or wanton pets, I represent Romeo and Juliet | lovebirds |
Because I am in full bloom, I symbolize this type of prime | flowers |
Like taxes,I’m a theme, that can’t be avoided. Just ask the foreshadowing team. | death |
I am what Juliet says best when she says, “what must be, shall be.” | fate |
I am always misleading people, even Shakespeare. While most holy people are expected to not use me, I trick Shakespeare into making the friar use me to bring the families together. | deception |
As a theme, I pre-date OSU-Michigan, the Hatfields and the McCoys and even the Montagues and Capulets. | rivalry |
A few seconds more and you might miss the fact that I was a major theme in Romeo and Juliet. | timing |
The actors who deliver the prologue | chorus |
The peak of the action or conflict | climax |
The sophistication of conflicts in a story line | … |
The lighter side of drama, the happy mask | comedy |
Last part of a tragedy plot line | catastrophe |
When the audience knows something the characters do not | dramatic irony |
The purposeful telling of a lie or a half-truth that has another truth within | double talk, double entendre |
Where characters are developed and setting is defined in a story | … |
Direction used to bring a character on stage | … |
Direction for all characters to leave the stage | … |
A summary element often used at the end of a play | epilogue |
Hints to things that are to come | foreshadowing |
Where the action or conflict of a story descends | falling action |
Long speech made in the presence of others | monologues |
The ludicrous misuse of words | Malapropism |
The use of language that features rhythm and rhyme | … |
The opposite of poetry, used for parts of lesser importance | prose |
Opening lines of the play that reveal the plot | prologue |
A play on words | pun |
The name given to the geometric shape associated the development of a story or play | the plot triangle |
A fourteen-line poem known as a love poem | sonnet (Shakespearean sonnet) |
Long speech made alone, often to reveal thoughts | soliloquy |
The darker side of drama, the sad mask | tragedy |
The flaw that brings about the protagonist’s downfall | tragic flaw |
Short speech to audience, unheard by other on the stage | aside |
Unrhymed iambic pentameter | blank verse |
A brief break between scenes or acts | interlude |
The ascension of the conflict or action | rising action |
Romeo and Juliet Jeopardy Review ?’s
August 2, 2019