Romeo & Juliet: Plot Details

The events below are all from Act 1 of Romeo & Juliet. Place them in order with #1 being the first event to occur and #5 being the last.

• Romeo is sad.

• Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, and their friends crash the Capulet party.

• Mercutio tells us about Queen Mab.

• There is a fight in the street.

• Romeo and Juliet meet.

The events below are all from Act 2 of Romeo & Juliet. Place them in order with #1 being the first event to occur and #5 being the last.

• Romeo says Juliet is the sun.

• Romeo agrees to send word about their marriage to the Nurse at 9AM.

• Romeo and Juliet are married.

• Juliet wishes that Romeo had a different name.

• Romeo visits Friar Lawrence.

Which of these events in Act II is the most important development in the plot?

• the search for Romeo by Benvolio and Mercutio

• the arrival of Tybalt's letter at the Montagues' house

• Romeo and Juliet's decision to get married

• Friar Lawrence's discovery of an unusual plot

The events below are all from Act 3 of Romeo & Juliet. Place them in order with #1 being the first event to occur and #5 being the last.

• Tybalt arrives looking for Romeo.

• Tybalt kills Mercutio.

• Romeo kills Tybalt.

• Mercutio and Benvolio are bored and hanging out in the street.

• Romeo refuses to fight.

Romeo and Juliet are able to (a)   .

• spend their wedding night together.

• include their friends in their wedding.

• ask their parents for forgiveness.

The events below are all from Acts 4 & 5 of Romeo & Juliet. Place them in order with #1 being the first event to occur and #5 being the last.

• Romeo hears that Juliet is dead.

• Romeo buys poison.

• Juliet's father threatens to disown her.

• Juliet takes a sleeping potion

• Juliet is buried in a vault.

Romeo and Juliet never told their parents about their relationship: (a)  

• True

• False

• I don't know

Place the following events from the play's end in order with #1 being the first to occur and #5 being the last to occur.

• Romeo sneaks back into Verona.

• Romeo kills Paris.

• Romeo takes poison and dies.

• Julie takes a sleeping potion.

• Juliet stabs herself.

Match the following quotes with the figurative language technique.

• Irony

• "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
  -Mercutio

• Simile

• "True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air,"

  -Mercutio

• Metaphor

• "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east,  and Juliet is the sun."
  -Romeo

• Personification

• "He (love) lent me counsel and I lent him eyes."
  -Romeo

The quote below is an example of what type of figurative language?

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she” (2.2.4-6).

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole