| Who does Mercutio and Benvolio think Romeo is with after the party? | Roseline |
| What does Romeo compare Juliet to? | The sun, and that she kills the darkness in him (the moon) ¨It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.¨ |
| Why does Juliet want Romeo to have some other name? | So that there families are not enemies, making it easier to be together. |
| When Juliet discovers Romeo at her balcony, what does she fear? What does this say about her character? | She fears that the guards will see him and kill him. t says that she is very caring, and more practical then him since he is like lost in his thoughts being so in love. |
| What is the agreement that Romeo and Juliet make after meeting at the balcony? | The agreement is to sleep on it and if he is still in love with her, they will runaway and get married. |
| Refrain | Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines. |
| Rhyme | The occurrence of similar or identical sounds at the end of two or more words. |
| Couplet | A series of two rhymed lines with a pattern of A, meaning that the ends of the two lines rhyme with each other. |
| Meter | Generally regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. |
| Iambic Pentameter | The Rhythm in which Shakespeare writes his plays and his sonnets; One line of verse contains five iambs. This line is ten syllables long with an alternating pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables. |
| Blank Verse | Poetry is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, ¨blank¨ means the poetry is not rhymed; this is the major form of verse in Shakespeare’s plays. |
| Free Verse | A form of poetry that does not have a regular rhythm or rhyme scheme. |
| Paradox | An apparently contradictory statement that actually reveals some truth. |
| Oxymoron | Two contradictory terms (jumbo shrimp, found missing..) |
| Pun | A play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings. |
| When Juliet is alone and says her feelings out loud, what literary device is being used: “Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo Deny thy father and refuse thy name and if thou wilt I’ll not longer be a Capulet” | This is a soliloquy |
| What literary device is being used with SOLES and SOUL:”You have dancing shoesWith nimble SOLES. I have a SOUL of leadSo stakes me to the ground I cannot move.” | This is a pun |
| Look at the two words in capital letters, SORROW and MORROW. What literary device is being used:”goodnight, goodnight, parting is such sweet SORROW that I shall say goodnight till it be MORROW” | This is rhyme |
| What literary device is being used: “O brawling love, O loving hate” | This is an oxymoron |
| The prologue is an example of what meter? | iambic pentameter |
| How many iams are in each line of iambic pentameter? | five |
| Who speaks in blank verse in Romeo and Juliet? | The upper class |
| Who speaks in free verse in Romeo and Juliet | The lower class |
| Who says, “If they do see thee they will murder thee…I would not for the world they saw thee here.” | Juliet |
| Who says: “I have no joy of this contract tonight.It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beEre one can say “It lightens.”” | Juliet |
| Who says, “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books/ But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.” | Romeo |
| Who says, “Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set/ On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.As mine on hers, so hers is set on mine,” | Romeo |
| Who says, “Is Roseline, whom thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” | Friar Lawrence |
| Who says, “’tis not hard, I think,/For men so old as we to keep the peace.” | Capulet |
| Who says, “I know not how to tell thee who I am.My name, dear saint, is hateful to myselfBecause it is an enemy to thee.Had I it written, I would tear the word.” | Romeo |
Romeo and Juliet Quiz 2
December 31, 2019