CharactersPlotQuotes Literary Devices Shakespeare & Elizabethan Theatre

Characters – 100 points Q: Who is Romeo first in love with in the beginning of the play?

Characters – 100 points A: Rosaline

Characters – 200 points Q: Which member of the Capulet family loves to fight?

Characters – 200 points A: Tybalt

Characters – 300 points Q: Who develops a plan for Romeo to escape to Mantua and what is his relationship to Romeo?

Characters – 300 points A: Friar Laurence, Romeo’s friend

Characters – 400 points Q: Who decides that Juliet should marry Paris and what is his/her relationship to Juliet?

Characters – 400 points A: Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father

Characters – 500 points “His temperament jumps up and down like the mercury in a thermometer.” Q: Which character does this describe?

Characters – 500 points A: Mercutio

Plot – 100 points Q: What does the Prince say will happen in Act 1 if the Montagues and Capulets keep fighting?

Plot – 100 points A: They will be killed

Plot – 200 questions Q: Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

Plot – 200 points A: Because he hopes it will stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets

Plot – 300 points Q: Why doesn’t Romeo want to fight Tybalt?

Plot – 300 points A: Because he is now his cousin

Plot – 400 points Q: What is Friar Laurence’s plan to save Juliet from marrying Paris?

Plot – 400 points A: Juliet will take a sleeping potion to make it appear like she is dead. Romeo will then be in the tomb when she wakes up, and they can escape to Mantua together.

Plot – 500 points Q: Which characters die in Act 5?

Plot – 500 points A: Romeo, Juliet, Paris and Lady Montague

Quotes – 100 points “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart; my will to her consent is but a part” Q: Who said this quote?

Quotes – 100 points A: Lord Capulet

Questions – 200 points “What’s in a name? That which we call a Rose by any other word would smell as sweet” Q: Which character said this and who is he/she talking to?

Questions – 200 points A: Juliet, talking to Romeo

Quotes – 300 points “A plague on both your houses!” Q: Which character said this and when does he/she say it in the play?

Quotes – 300 points A: Mercutio, before he dies

Quotes – 400 points “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” Q: Which character said this and why is he/she saying it?

Quotes – 400 points A: Juliet; she wants to kill herself because Romeo is dead

Quotes – 500 points “For there never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” Q: Which character said this quote and when does he/she say it?

Quotes – 500 points A: The Prince, at the end of the play

Literary Devices – 100 points “Two households both alike in dignity In fair Verona where we set our scene…” Q: What is this type of rhythm called in poetry?

Literary Devices – 100 points A: Iambic Pentameter

Literary Devices – 200 points “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man” Q: What literary device is this an example of?

Literary Devices – 200 points A: Pun A pun is a play on words that wittily exploits a double meaning. Shakespeare is referring to Mercutio’s death and a serious situation.

Literary Devices – 300 points “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun” Q: What literary device is this an example of?

Literary Devices – 300 points A: Metaphor Juliet is being compared to the light/sun; she illuminates the room even though it is night.

Literary Devices – 400 points “The grey-eyed moon smiles on the frowning night, Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light” Q: What literary device is this an example of?

Literary Devices – 400 points A: Personification; the moon is given human-like characteristics

Literary Devices – 500 points Q: What is a theme of Romeo and Juliet?

Literary Devices – 500 points A: Love, fate, chance, free will, family, youth, death and any other answers Mrs. Brown is willing to accept!

Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points Q: Where was the Globe Theatre located?

Shakespeare/Theatre – 100 points A: London, England

Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points Q: What did Shakespeare leave to his wife when he died? (Hint – This shows that they really didn’t get along…)

Shakespeare/Theatre – 200 points A: The second best bed in the house

Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points Q: What characteristics were actors expected to have in the Elizabethan era?

Shakespeare/Theatre – 300 points A: Strong singing voices, dancing ability, acrobatic talents, fencing experience, good memories

Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points Q: Who could NOT be an actor in Shakespeare’s day?

Shakespeare/Theatre – 400 points A: Women; all the parts were played by men

Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points Q: Why were theatres often closed down from ?

Shakespeare/Theatre – 500 points A: BLACK PLAGUE: Cramped people would cough and go to the bathroom in the theatre right next to each other; lack of sanitation in the theatre