Romeo and Juliet Final

When Juliet is found "dead" in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, her father says, "Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." What is the meaning of this imagery?

• Juliet died because the weather was so cold.

• Juliet died before she had time to live.

• Juliet will be surrounded by flowers at her funeral.

• Juliet picked the sweetest flowers when they bloomed.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

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CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What kind of figurative language is used in these lines from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the East, and Juliet is the Sun"?

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

Which of these is a description of an aside in drama?

• A character exits through a door on the side of the stage.

• A character makes a comment not heard by all the other characters on stage at the time.

• A character enters the action from the side of the stage. 

• A minor character accompanies the protagonist.

What is the term for a situation in which the reader or audience of a play knows something that the characters do not?

• dramatic irony

• tragedy

• aside

• external conflict

What is an allusion?

• A literary device that uses homonyms to make a joke.

• A literary device that strengthens characterization by having one character speak to someone who is absent 

      or unable to respond.

• A literary device that positions two characters with opposing traits together to accentuate those conflicting character traits.

• A literary device that makes a reference to a famous person, place, or piece of work.

In the Prologue, the phrase "a pair of star-cross'd lovers" suggests all of the following EXCEPT

• a long relationship.

• a doomed romance.

• an unhappy ending.

• a belief in astrology.

The Prologue is at the BLANK of the play and is used to BLANK.

• End/conclude the plot

• Beginning/set the mood

• Middle/entertain the reader

• Beginning/ introduce the the story.

The Prince tells Montague and Capulet that if they disturb the peace again, they will

• forfeit their lives

• be fined

• be imprisoned

• have to leave Verona

What young man asks Lord Capulet for permission to marry Juliet?

• Count Paris

•  Prince Escalus

• Mercutio

• Romeo

Romeo agrees to go to the Capulet party because he wants to

• be near Rosaline.

• get over his broken heart.

• see if Rosaline is involved with someone else.

• show his bravery in entering the Capulet home.