WorksheetsRomeo and Juliet, Acts 3-5, Review
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
Clues that hint at things that will occur later
personiciation
foreshadowing
dramatic irony
comic relief
A short speech by a character to another character or to the audience that some characters do not hear
soliloquy
monologue
aside
prose
Which one of Romeo's friends is a peacemaker and tries to discourage Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting in public?
(a)
What is the name of the servant who brings word to Romeo in Mantua that Juliet is dead?
(a)
Comic episodes in a dramatic/literary work that offset more serious sections
comic relief
verbal irony
oxymoron
dramatic irony
When something non-human is given human characteristics
simile
metaphor
prose
personification
This character accuses Benvolio of being quarrelsome and then fights and is killed by Tybalt
(a)
This character promises Paris that Juliet will marry him and then threatens to disown his daugther
(a)
This term refers to the male head-of-household; had the right to disown his family
tragic flaw
paterfamilias
oxymoron
prose
A comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as"
metaphor
simile
personification
foreshadowing
This character lost his wife to grief and promised to build a statue of gold to honor Juliet
(a)
This character tries to make a citizen's arrest of Romeo and is killed by him
(a)
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
metaphor
simile
personification
foreshadowing
A long speech by a character who is alone on stage; used to let the audience know his/her thoughts or feelings
monologue
aside
soliloquy
prose
This character is very talkative and seldom to the point; suggests to Juliet that she marry Paris even though she is already married to Romeo
(a)
This character was quarantined because of the plague and was unable to deliver an important message
(a)
A type of play in which a character of heroic or dignified stature experiences a major downfall resulting from outside forces (other characters, fate, etc. ) or from a tragic flaw
(a)
Two opposite ideas joined to create an effect
prose
verbal irony
dramatic irony
oxymoron
This character fakes her death to escape being married to Paris but then stabs herself when she sees her husband dead
(a)
This character comes up with several plans: Romeo to visit Juliet and then flee to Mantua, Juliet to fake her death, Juliet to become a nun
(a)
When the audience knows something that a character in the play does not know
oxymoron
verbal irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
When a character says the opposite what he/she means or feels
oxymoron
verbal irony
dramatic irony
situational irony
This character plans to poison Romeo in Mantua and tells Juliet she wishes she were married to her grave
(a)
This character loses two relatives to the feud and banishes Romeo from Verona
(a)
A weakness in a character that leads to his/her downfall
foil
tragic flaw
oxymoron
tragedy
Ordinary writing - like a paragraph; usually spoken by lower class characters or by Mercutio when he is joking
quotation
oxymoron
verse
prose
This character tries to start a fight with Romeo, kills Mercutio under Romeo's arm, and then is killed by Romeo
(a)
This character tries to avoid two fights but ends up killing two people; buys poison from a poor apothecary; breaks into the Capulet tomb and kills himself; fortune's fool
(a)
"O sweet Juliet,/ Thy beauty has made me effeminate/ And softened valor's steel." In these words spoken by Romeo, he is complaining that . . .
his love for Juliet has made him weak since he initially backed down from a fight with Tybalt
his love for Juliet has grown and he can hardly wait to see her again soon
his love for Juliet has caused him to act rashly and he has started a fight with Tybalt and killed him
When Juliet begins her speech, "O serpent heart hidden with a flow'ring face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair cave?/ Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!" she...
uses verbal irony because she wants the Nurse to think she hates Romeo when she really loves him
uses foreshadowing when she call him a "fiend angelical" because the next time she sees him he will be an angel
uses oxymorons to express her confusion that such an attractive exterior hides such a villainous interiour
When Romeo says, "'Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here/ Where Juliet lives. . . ," he
is saying that staying hidden in the Friar's cell and not being able to visit Juliet is torture
is saying that a sentence of banishment is as bad as a sentence of death because Juliet lives in Verona and she is his life
is saying that banishment is not mercy since he thinks he really deserves death for killing Tybalt
When Juliet says, "O God, I have an ill-divining soul!/ Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / as one dead in the bottom of a tomb," she is ...
expressing foreshadowing because the next time she sees him he will be dead in tomb
expressing verbal irony because she is trying to trick her mother into thinking that she wants to see Romeo dead
expressing dramatic irony because the audience knows that Romeo is already dead but she does not
When Juliet says, "Indeed I never shall be satisfied / With Romeo til I behold him--dead--/Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed," she
is using foreshadowing because she is prophesying that Romeo will die
is using dramatic irony because the audience knows that Romeo is already dead but Juliet does not
is using verbal irony because she is speaking the words in such way as to lead her mother to think she wants Romeo dead when she means the opposite
When Lady Capulet says, "I would the fool were married to her grave," she is . . .
wishing Juliet were dead, which is foreshadowing
wishing Juliet would marry Paris before she dies
wishing her husband was dead because he has been treating Juliet so badly
When Lord Capulet says, "Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field," he is ...
using a metaphor to compare death to a frost
using a simile to compare death to a frost
using personification to compare Juliet to a frost
When Lord Capulet says, "Death is my son-in-law; Death is my heir./ My daughter he hath wedded. I will die / And leave him all," he is
is using personification giving Death the human traits of being able to marry his daughter and become his son-in-law
is using a simile, comparing Death to his son-in-law
is using verbal irony because he doesn't really mean that Juliet is dead
When Romeo says, "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, /Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, /Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,/ And in despite I'll cram thee with more food," he is
using a simile, comparing himself to more food to go in the stomach
using a simile, comparing Juliet's tomb to a mouth
using a metaphor, comparing Juliet's tomb to a mouth
When Romeo says, "Is it e'en so?--Then I deny you, stars!--," he is
saying that he will fight his fate
saying that he will accept his fate
saying that the stars suggest something wonderful is about to happen
When Friar John says, "Suspecting that we both were in a house/Where the infectious pestilence did reign, /Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth, / So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed," he
is expressing his concern that the plague has struck Mantua
is expressing his concern that he may have caught the plague visiting some friends
is explaining why he could not deliver Friar Lawrence's message to Romeo
When Romeo says, "Thou art not conquered. Beauty's ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,/ And death's pale flag is not advanced there," he
is using a metaphor comparing Juliet's face to a battlefield being fought over by Death and Beauty
is using a simile comparing Juliet's face to a battlefield being fought over by Death and Beauty
is using verbal irony because he knows Juliet is not really dead
What is Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw?
Their love for each other
The hate their families feel for each other
They are too rash
Their friendship with Friar Lawrence
