Literature 10 Unit 8

What is the term for stages used in Shakespeare's time?

What happens to the pace of the plot as the play moves on? What significance does this have on Shakespeare's theme?

Which word best describes Benvolio?

Which two of the following are illustrated in the famous balcony scene of Act II?

drama that focuses on light-hearted matters such as courtship and loves, sometimes satirically

Who says, "I am hurt. / A plague a' both your houses! I am sped. / Is he gone and hath nothing"?

Who says, "I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, / Or manage it to part these men with me."?

Who says, "O, how my head aches! What a head have I! / ...Beshrew your heart for sending me about/ To catch my death"?

How does Shakespeare often reveal his tone toward the issues of the play?

Which two major themes does the light/dark imagery of the play highlight? Explain.

Juliet's response to news of Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment exemplifies internal conflict.

Who says, "Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy in this contract tonight, It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden"?

Why does Friar Lawrence primarily decide to help Romeo and Juliet?

What theme does the Friar's advice, "Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast," reveal?

Who says, "These violent delights have violent ends / And their triumph die like fire and powder"?

Romeo and Juliet's first conversation forms a poem. Describe the central imagery of the poem and its meaning.

Which two characters are foils to Juliet? Explain.

speech by a character in a drama who believes himself to be alone disclosing his innermost thoughts aloud

Romeo appreciates Mercutio's advice about Queen Mab and dreams.

Which of the following is the most biblical response to the idea of fate as Shakespeare presents in the drama?

What key ingredient must be removed for us to read drama as literature?

Romeo and Juliet remain sympathetic throughout the play because they make wise choices.

What is the definition of the genre of drama?

What is the predominant conflict of the play Romeo and Juliet?

Picture-frame stages blur the line between actors and audience members.

a play written to be read and not performed

The following statement contains an example of which two of the following terms?

Which of the following is not true of acts in a drama?

Romeo acts immaturely to his banishment by the prince.

What do the lark and the nightingale symbolize? What are Romeo and Juliet actually disagreeing about?

Who says, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"?

What is Mercutio's statement, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man" an example of?

In Romeo and Juliet, the feud is primarily kept alive by the older generation.

At the beginning of the play, what is Romeo primarily troubled by?

The dagger Juliet places by her bedside in Act IV functions as what

What is the difference between a picture-frame stage and a theater-in-the-round production?

Critics cite "Pyramus and Thisbe" as one source for the basic plot of Romeo and Juliet.

In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare's tone toward Romeo's first love is disapproving.

In the end, whom does the Prince absolve of guilt?

speech at the play's end addressed directly to the audience and usually summarizes or comments on the plays theme

Who says, "And I, for winking at your discords too / Have lost a brace of kinsmen"?

In the end, whom does the Prince blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?

Who says, "What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee"?

Romeo and Juliet's tragic flaw encompasses which two main themes of the story?

humorous elements inserted into serious drama to relieve dramatic tension

speech by a character in a drama briefly disclosing his thoughts in the presence of other characters who do not hear him

What does the introduction recommend a reader of dramas do to better understand a playwright's intentions?

Drama is a relatively new genre of literature.

The phrase "star-cross'd lovers" introduces what theme in the play?

Who is the better counselor, Friar or Nurse? Why?

How do both Act I and Act II begin?

besting another's remark or turning it to one's own advantage in a contest of wits

What is the crisis of the play's plot and how is ironic?

Most of Romeo and Juliet is written in blank verse.

brief verbal expression that amuses listeners through a clever but unexpected turn of phrase or connection between ideas

Who says, "O, I am slain! / If thou be merciful, / Open the tomb, and lay me with Juliet"?

Who says, "Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what: get thee to church a'Thursday"?

What are the two larges traditional subgenres in drama?

Which of the following is not true of most dramatic scenes?

Juliet's speech in Act IV, Scene II, in which she expresses her fear of taking the potion, is an example of what?

What does Juliet mean when she says the following lines?

The dialogue between the musicians after Juliet's faked death is an example of what?

What is Juliet arguing in favor of?

a work in which the flaws of the protagonist cause him tremendous suffering and result in a disastrous conclusion

speech at the play's beginning addressed directly to the audience and introduces the setting, themes, or characters