2. What event made it difficult for Shakespeare to put on his plays?

3. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?

4. Which form of writing resembles everyday speech in Shakespeare's plays?

5. What types of characters used rhymed verse?

6. How are a majority of lines written in Romeo and Juliet?

7. What does "iambic mean?"

8. How many syllables are there in one line of iambic pentameter?

9. What is a fourteen line poem called?

10. What are two successive lines of verse of which the final words rhyme with one another?

11. What event does the prologue foreshadow?

12. The play opens with a fight between...

13. In an angry speech, the prince threatens with death any person who does what?

14. Why is Romeo depressed in Act 1 Scene 1?

15. When Paris asks to marry Juliet, what does Capulet tell him to do?

16. Romeo agrees to go to the Capulet ball to...

17. When Juliet's mother tells Juliet that Paris is interested in her, Juliet tells her mother...

18. When Tybalt tells Lord Capulet that a Montague is at the ball, Capulet says to...

19. What is the setting of the play?

20. When Romeo and Juliet meet, what do they fail to do?

21. Who tries to break up the fight at the beginning of the play?

22. How do Romeo and Benvolio find out abput the Capulet party?

23. What does Benvolio tell Romeo to do in order to forget the girl who doesn't want him?

24. Which character loves to talk?

25. What premonition does Romeo have?

26. Who is Queen Mab?

27. What are the two opposing families in Romeo and Juliet?

28. Who identifies Juliet for Romeo and vice versa?

29. A play which shows dramatic representations of serious actions that lead to a disastrous conclusion

30. Lines with five metrical feet of iambs (unstressed, stressed)

31. Inclusive term for all lines which are not patterned into metric verse

32. The act of talking to oneself, whether silently or aloud

33. The character expresses their thoughts/intentions to the audience in a short speech

34. The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot

35. The uncertainty/anxiety the audience feels about what is going to happen onstage

36. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using like or as

37. A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things that does not use like or as

38. When a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it were human

39. Language that appeals to the senses

40. A play on words

41. A reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, myth, politics, sports, science, or pop culture

42. chief characters that the audience’s interest centers on

43. important opponent to the protagonist

44. a character that shows qualities that are in contrast to another character

45. struggle or clash between opposing characters or between opposing forces

46. when the audience knows something important that the characters are not aware of

47. when what occurs onstage is the opposite of what the audience expects

48. when the characters say one thing but mean the other