1. Drama Terms
Poetic
Devices
Shakespeare Shuffle
Character Events
“What’s in a name?...”
Speaketh thou of whom?
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JEOPARDY!

2. The peak of tension and most exciting spot; circumstances really change here.?
Answer: Climax

3. Lines spoken by the character that are addressed to the audience.?
Answer: Aside

4. Romeo’s character flaw makes him the play’s ________ _________.?
Answer: Tragic Hero

5. A dramatic work, such as Romeo and Juliet, that presents the downfall of a dignified character or characters is called this. ?
Answer: Tragedy

6. ?
A speech in which a character speaks thoughts aloud but addressed only to him or herself.
Answer: Soliloquy

7. ? Answer: Oxymoron “O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms…”
Answer: Oxymoron

8. ?
A rhymed pair of lines.
Answer: Couplet

9. Answer: Iambic Pentameter?
The metrical pattern most commonly used by Shakespeare; lub-DUB, lub-DUB lub-DUB, lub-DUB, lub-DUB.
Answer: Iambic Pentameter

10. Answer: Personification?
“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Check’ring the Eastern clouds with streaks of light…”
Answer: Personification

11. ?
“It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun”
Answer: Metaphor

12. The theater at which Shakespeare’s plays were performed.?
Answer: The Globe

13. The segment of a play where tension builds because of opposing ideas between characters.?
Answer: Rising Action/ Complication

14. Shakespeare wrote his lines in this kind of verse which uses unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter.?
Answer: Blank

15. ?
Shakespeare wrote 154 of these fourteen-line poems.
Answer: Sonnet

16. ?
Other than Verona, this Italian city is a friendly host to Romeo.
Answer: Mantua

17. Lord Capulet would like Juliet to do this.?
Answer: Marry Count Paris

18. This person denies Romeo any satisfaction, and yet, we hear not a word from her the entire play.?
Answer: Rosaline

19. ?
The consequence of Romeo killing Tybalt
Answer: Romeo’s Banishment from Verona

20. The length of Juliet’s “Death”?
Answer: 42 Hours

22. Who was in charge of getting the Friar’s letter to Romeo
? Who was in charge of getting the Friar’s letter to Romeo? Why didn’t it succeed?
Answer: Friar John/ Quarantined due to pestilence

23. ?
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Answer: Juliet

24. ?
“A plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worm’s meat of me!”
Answer: Mercutio

25. ? Answer: Lord Capulet “Monday! Ha! Ha! Well, Wednesday is too soon.
A Thursday let it be - a Thursday, tell her,
She shall be married to this noble earl.”
Answer: Lord Capulet

26. ?
“Be ruled by me; forget to think of her.”
Answer: Benvolio

27. ?
“Uncle this is a Montague, our foe;
A villain that is hither come in spite
To scorn at our solemnity this night.”
Answer: Romeo

28. ? Answer: Paris “A man young lady! Lady, such a man
As all the world - why he’s a man of wax.”
Answer: Paris

29. ? Answer: Juliet “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear-”
Answer: Juliet

30. ?
“Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in they lips and in thy cheeks, And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”
Answer: Juliet

31. ?
“More than the Prince of Cats, I can tell you. O, he’s the
courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing
pricksong - keeps time, distance, and proportion…”
Answer: Tybalt

32. ? “Deny thy father and refuse thy name”
Answer: Romeo

33. ?
Brings Romeo news that Juliet is dead.
Answer: Balthasar