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WorksheetsLit. Terms: Romeo and Juliet
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 34mins
Juliet tells her mother she is crying because of Tybalt's death, when really she is crying because of Romeo's exile. This is an example of...
Paradox
Dramatic irony
Soliloquy
Double entendre
When Romeo says "more light and light; more dark and dark our woes!" it is an example of...
Paradox
Soliloquy
Double Entendre
Couplet
What is the correct rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet?
abab cdcd eeff gg
abcb defe ghgh ii
abab cdcd efef gg
abab cdcd efef ghgh
What is the purpose of the prologue?
To introduce the names of the characters and their conflicts.
To provide an overall preview of the play
To start the play with a Shakespeare poem
To sum up what happens in Act I
What are all of the aspects of a Shakespearean sonnet? CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY.
iambic pentameter
3 quatrains and 1 couplet equaling 14 lines
no set rhyme scheme
each stanza has its own message/meaning that previews the play's plot
What is a soliloquy?
When a character speaks to another character offstage and the audience can hear.
When a character speaks to the audience and the other characters on stage cannot hear them.
When a character silently mimes what they are trying to say.
When a character speaks to only one other person on stage and they have a conversation but the audience cannot hear the dialogue.
Which of the following is the correct definition of dramatic irony?
When the reader knows something a character doesn't
When a character realizes something before the reader does
When what happens in a story is the opposite of what the reader expects
"These violent delights have violent ends"
and
"So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after hours with sorrow chide us not!"
Which piece of figurative language goes with Mercutio's line "Ask for me in the morning and you will find me a grave man"?
Irony
Pun
Metaphor
Symbolism
What is a foil character?
A character with opposite characteristics to the protagonist or another key character.
A character who shares the same characteristics as the protagonist or another key character.
A silly or ignorant character that acts rashly without thinking.
Romeo and Juliet is an example of this type of play:
history
comedy
musical
tragedy
Scene one begins as Romeo is speaking onstage to himself, telling his innermost thoughts. This is an example of:
monologue
aside
soliloquy
dramatic irony
In scene three, Romeo threatens Balthasar saying, “I will tear thee joint by joint/ And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs” (5.3.35-36). The phrase “this hungry churchyard” is an example of:
allusion
simile
metaphor
personification
In scene two, the friar realizes that he must go get Juliet since his message did not reach Romeo. He says of Juliet, “Poor living corpse,* closed in a dead man’s tomb!” (5.2.30) Referring to Juliet as a “living corpse”* is an example of:
oxymoron
allusion
simile
Pun
What is the unstated meaning drawn from the text?
Counter cross
Subtext
Emotional memory
Places
When a main character talks to themselves or the audience. No one conscious is usually on stage with them, and usually this speech is long.
iambic pentameter
aside
soliloquy
center stage
A character on the stage says something to the audience or to other characters (while excluding others). The other actors on the stage pretend they cannot hear them is a:
Iambic pentameter
aside
soliloquy
down center stage
when the audience knows more than the characters do
dramatic irony
symbolic irony
situational irony
verbal irony
