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2. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with who?

3. Rosaline

4. What is the Friar’s true reason for consenting to marry Romeo and Juliet?

5. To end the feud between the Capulets and the Montegues

6. What phrase is repeated 3 times by Mercutio?

7. “A plague ‘o both your houses.”

8. Who (other than Romeo) wants to marry Juliet?

9. Paris

10. What three individuals are directly killed by Romeo?

11. Tybalt, Paris, Romeo

12. A play on words

13. Pun

14. The repetition of vowel sounds

15. Assonance

16. An extreme exaggeration

17. Hyperbole

18. An apparent contradiction

19. Oxymoron

20. A comparison using like or as

21. Simile

22. What do researchers call the years between when Shakespeare moved from Stratford to London?

23. The dark years or the lost years

24. Where is Shakespeare buried and why is it significant?

25. Buried in the churchyard at Stratford
Buried in the churchyard at Stratford. Decedents have been petitioned for years to move his body to Westminster Abbey.

26. This Queen sat on the throne when Shakespeare did the majority of his writing?

27. Elizabeth I

28. Shakespeare was part of this King’s acting company?

29. James I

30. Shakespeare’s plays can be put into 3 categories
Shakespeare’s plays can be put into 3 categories. Name those 3 categories.

31. Comedy, History, Tragedy

32. How many lines are in a sonnet?

33. 14 lines

34. A sonnet contains what type of rhyme?

35. End Rhyme

36. What is the term used for a grouping of 4 lines?

37. Quatrain

38. A sonnet contains what type of meter?

39. Iambic Pentameter

40. What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?

41. a,b,a,b c,d,c,d e,f,e,f g,g

42. “It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun
“It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art more fair than she.”

43. Romeo

44. “…You be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,”

45. Lord Capulet

46. “O God, I have an ill-divining soul
“O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thout art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.”

47. Juliet

48. “Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the county. O, he’s a lovely gentleman! Romeo’s a dishclout to him.”

49. Nurse

50. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.

51. Chorus