WorksheetsFinal Review - Spring 2025
Total questions: 55
Worksheet time: 28mins
When the audience knows something that another character does not, this is an example of what literary element?
Dramatic Irony
Verbal Irony
Situational Irony
Elizabethan Irony
Referring to Tybalt as the "King of Cats," a name taken from a 1553 British folktale, is an example of what literary element?
Allusion
Irony
Euphemism
Metaphor
Mercutio's famous lines as he is dying, "A plague o' both your houses," is an example of what literary element?
Flashback
Climax
Foreshadowing
Falling Action
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
15
14
10
13
Where was William Shakespeare born?
Stratford Upon Avon
Mantua
Verona
London
Which of the following is not a universal quality of a Shakespearean tragedy?
Lots of action
Unhappy ending
Written in prose and verse
Romance
How many plays were published in Shakespeare's first collection of works?
102
36
55
20
Which of the following is not a type of play that Shakespeare wrote?
Tragedy
Comedy
History
Allegory
In the Elizabethan theater, how often were plays produced?
Every two weeks
Once a week
Once a month
Once a year
In Act One, which of the following events happened first?
Paris asks to marry Juliet.
Romeo professes his love for Rosaline.
Lord and Lady Montague ask Benvolio if he has seen their son, Romeo.
Mercutio delivers the "Queen Mab" speech on the way to the Capulet party.
On what day of the week does Romeo leave for Mantua?
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
On what day of the week is the Capulet party?
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Between what two acts do Romeo and Juliet get married?
Acts One and Two
Acts Two and Three
Acts Three and Four
Acts Four and Five
Which of the following events happened first in the play?
Romeo and Juliet get married.
Romeo kills Tybalt.
Tybalt kills Mercutio.
Romeo is banished.
In what Act does the Nurse tell Juliet she should forget Romeo and marry Paris?
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Act Five
In what Act does Paris die?
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Act Five
In what Act do Romeo and Juliet profess their love for one another on Juliet's balcony?
Act One
Act Two
Act Three
Act Four
Which two characters is Prince Escalus related to?
Mercutio and Benvolio
Romeo and Tybalt
Tybalt and Paris
Mercutio and Paris
Why does Lord Capulet want Juliet to marry Paris so quickly?
He wants Paris for a son-in-law.
He wants Juliet to forget about Romeo.
He thinks it will distract Juliet from her grief over Tybalt.
He thinks Juliet is in love with Tybalt and he wants her to be happy.
Why does Tybalt get so angry when he sees Romeo at the Capulet party?
He doesn't want Romeo to be with Juliet.
He feels insulted that Romeo, a Montague, showed up to a Capulet party.
He saw Romeo steal something.
Lady Capulet refuses to throw him out of the party.
How do Romeo and Juliet die?
Romeo drinks poison; Juliet uses a dagger
Romeo and Juliet both drink poison.
Romeo uses a dagger; Juliet drinks poison
Romeo and Juliet both use a dagger.
Romeo dreams that he has died, but is revived with a kiss from Juliet. He dies later in the act. This is an example of what literary element?
Tragedy
Oxymoron
Foreshadowing
Comic Relief
The Friar shares his private thoughts about the morning, as well as about the power of plants in Act Two, Scene Three, while alone on stage. This is an example of what literary element?
Comic Relief
Soliloquy
Allusion
Foil
"O brawling love, O loving hate..." is an example of what literary element?
Oxymoron
Allusion
Couplet
Comic Relief
Who said the following line from Romeo and Juliet? "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes."
Friar Lawrence
Tybalt
Lord Capulet
Benvolio
Who said the following line in Romeo and Juliet? "O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?"
Juliet
The Nurse
Mercutio
Romeo
Who said the following line from Romeo and Juliet? "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
Tybalt
Romeo
Lord Capulet
Mercutio
Who said the following line from Romeo and Juliet? "Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting."
Romeo
Mercutio
Benvolio
Juliet
Who said the following line in Romeo and Juliet? "Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice but full of charge, of dear import, and the neglecting it may do much danger."
Friar Lawrence
Prince Escalus
Friar John
Balthasar
Who said the following line in Romeo and Juliet? "Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
Romeo
Juliet
Mercutio
Friar Lawrence
Who said the following line in Romeo and Juliet? "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Prince Escalus
The Chorus
Lord Capulet
Friar Lawrence
Who said the following line in Romeo and Juliet? "I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
Mercutio
Romeo
Lord Montague
Benvolio
What is the term for two lines that rhyme with each other, often found at the end of Shakespeare's sonnets?
Couplet
Iambic Pentameter
Meter
Internal Rhyme
Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
He wants to end the feud between the Montagues and Capulets.
He wants Romeo to be happy.
He will make money from performing the ceremony.
He never approved of Romeo's infatuation with Rosaline.
Which of the following is NOT one of Lord Capulet's reasons for not wanting Juliet to marry Paris?
He doesn't like Paris.
He wants her to be able to marry someone he truly loves.
He thinks Juliet is too young.
He doesn't want Juliet to resent an early marriage and become bitter.
What advice/warning does Friar Lawrence have for Romeo before he performs the wedding ceremony?
Love moderately.
Use discretion.
Pick your battles.
Love extravagantly.
What is Juliet's emotional state at the end of Act Three?
Desperate and Helpless
Angry and Determined
Depressed and Indifferent
Hopeful and Encouraged
Which of the following definitions of a counterclaim is correct?
the opposing claim
the facts and evidence that support the thesis
the commentary in the body paragraph
the introduction to an argument
The sentence that states the central message you want to communicate in an essay is the
thesis statement
hook
counterclaim
conclusion
How did Lady Montague die?
She died of a broken heart after Romeo was banished from Verona.
She didn't die.
She died of a broken heart after Romeo killed himself.
She died of a broken heart when she learned that Romeo and Juliet were married.
Shakespeare's children were
Susannah, Judith, and Hamnet
Susannah, Judith, and Hamlet
Susannah, Juliet, and Hamnet
Susan, Judith, and Hamlet
Why does Romeo refuse to fight Tybalt at the beginning of Act Three?
Romeo considers Tybalt to be family, since he has just married Juliet.
He knows he won't win.
He doesn't want to get in trouble with The Prince.
Romeo has always liked Tybalt and considers him a friend.
What rhyme scheme is used in a Shakespearean sonnet?
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
ABCD ABCD EFGH HH
AAAA BBBB CCCC DD
ABAB ABAB ABAB CC
How do Acts One and Two show qualities of a traditional Shakespearean comedy?
There is a wedding at the end.
All of the actors are females.
Men told most of the jokes.
The puns, word play, and dialogue drive the plot of the story.
A recurring theme, subject, or idea in a literary work
Motif
Sonnet
Symbol
Aside
A device in which the actor in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play
Aside
Comic Relief
Soliloquy
Monologue
A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme
Sonnet
Prose
Iambic Pentameter
Blank Verse
Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter
Blank verse
Sonnet
Prose
Iambic Pentameter
Romeo and Juliet ends in death, destruction, and misery for most of the characters in the play. This is an example of
Tragedy
Oxymoron
Foreshadowing
Situational Irony
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings
Pun
Blank Verse
Couplet
Sonnet
"The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night." (from Friar Lawrence's speech in Act Two, Scene Three)
This is an example of
Personification
Couplet
Irony
Oxymoron
Written or spoken language in its original form, without metrical structure (anything that isn't poetry/verse)
Prose
Sonnet
Blank Verse
Iambic Pentameter
Romeo tries to protect Mercutio by stopping the fight between him and Tybalt, but instead, this action is what actually kills Mercutio.
Situational Irony
Comic Relief
Tragedy
Foreshadowing
A poetic meter that is made up of five stressed syllables each followed by an unstressed syllable
Iambic Pentameter
Soliloquy
Blank Verse
Rhyming Couplet
A reference to another work of literature, person, or event
Allusion
Allegory
Motif
Symbol
