Romeo and Juliet TRHS Review

What is Juliet saying in the following quote?

"Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say it lightens. Sweet, good night!"

• She doesn't like that Romeo swears, so she's asking him to stop.

• She is feeling nervous about the idea of marrying Romeo.

• She is saying that Romeo is like lightning.

This is a long speech delivered by a character who believes that he or she is alone on stage.

• Aside

• Allusion

• Soliloquy

In the following lines, Friar Lawrence tells Romeo: "Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast"

What does he mean?

• He is telling Romeo to move slowly while thinking, stating that people who run fast often stumble.

• He's telling Romeo and time moves wisely and slowly and that he should avoid stumbling.

• He tells Romeo that Romeo is very wise and should avoid stumbling.

This term refers to a combination of contradictory words such as "waking sleep" or "loving hate."

• solioquy

• personification

• oxymoron

________ is the all capped section in the following section:

"O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art/As glorious to this night being o'er my head,/A WINGED MESSENGER OF HEAVEN.

• a simile

• a metaphor

• personification

The all capped section is an example of what in the following section?

THE GREY-EYED MORN SMILES on the FROWNING NIGHT.

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

Romeo and Mercutio are characters who contrast each others. This term is called:

• a foil

• a protagonist

• a pun

Most of Shakespeare's plays were performed here.

• The Riviera Theatre

• The Civic Theatre

• The Globe Theatre

A character's lines that are spoken directly to the audience when other characters are also onstage, but they don't hear the lines is called:

• an aside

• a soliloquy

• a pun

• a simile

Shakespeare often used literary references to other well-known works of literature, history, or art. What's this called?

• a soliloquy

• an aside

• an allusion

• a foil