Romeo and Juliet: LITERARY ANALYSIS - Shakespeare Simplified

How does Shakespeare use puns and wordplay? 

• To undermine or make fun of older characters

• To make younger characters seem silly

What is a dichotomy? 

• things that are compared because they are so similar to one another

• a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different

For the first couple of acts of the play Romeo and Juliet is actually a....

• comedy.

• tragedy.

Shakespeare repeats certain ideas about speed and time

• in order to use those motifs to emphasise a theme,

• in order to put emphasis on how long the play is. 

How is Romeo intervening in this fight scene ironic? 

• His trying to prevent something from going wrong actually causes things to go wrong.

• He was going to get Mercutio killed eventually anyway. 

Juliet is most often associated with the symbols for 

• light

• darkness

When Juliet says that Romeo's name means nothing, this is a sign that

• she doesn't really know who Romeo is.

• she and Romeo will go against tradition.