Quiz Examples Flashcards
Characters do not always speak in poetry in Shakespeare’s plays; sometimes characters’ lines are written in regular ___ that does not follow Iambic pentameter and does not rhyme.
prose
In the play’s opening scene, Benvolio tries to make peace. In contrast, Tybalt declares that he hates peace, and he insists on fighting in the street. These words and actions make Tybalt a ____ for Benvolio.
foil
At the end of Romeo’s soliloquy when he first sees Juliet, Romeo declares, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” This pair of rhymed lines expressing a complete thought at the end of Romeo’s soliloquy is known as a ____.
couplet
What should we call the following wordplay between Romeo & Mercutio?
ROMEO: I dreamt a dream tonight.
MERCUTIO: And so did I.
ROMEO: Well, what was yours?
MERCUTIO: That dreamers often lie.
ROMEO: In bed asleep while they do dream things true.
pun
When Romeo and Juliet first meet, Romeo calls Juliet’s hand “this holy shrine.” This statement is an example of _____.
metaphor
Romeo speaks these lines before finally agreeing to go to the party. Because these lines hint at future events, they are an example of ___: “…for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels, and expire the term / Of a despisèd life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”
foreshadowing
In the play’s opening scene, Sampson says quietly to Gregory: “Is the law of our sides if I say ‘Ay’?” Then Gregory quietly says to Sampson, “No.” However, no other characters on stage can hear these lines. These remarks are examples of a(n) _______.
aside
Romeo and Juliet’s first conversation at the Capulet party occurs in ___ form, with lines of ten-syllables each that rhyme and follow Iambic pentameter.
verse
Romeo tells Benvolio that Rosaline will “not be hit / With Cupid’s arrow.” This statement–a reference to the ancient myth of Cupid–is an example of _____.
allusion
When we first meet Friar Lawrence, he is alone in his garden picking flowers, and he makes a lengthy speech there before Romeo shows up to talk to him. This speech is a(n) _______.
soliloquy
Juliet says these words in her first soliloquy. Juliet’s argument back and forth between two alternatives illustrates the literary technique of ___.
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse they name, / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”
antithesis
In 2.2, Juliet tells Romeo, “Although I joy in thee, / I have no joy of this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say ‘It lightens.’” Juliet’s comparison of their attraction to lightning using the word “like” is an example of ___.
simile
Friar Lawrence says: “Within the infant rind of this weak flower / Poison hath residence and medicine power.” For both poison and medicine to be present within the same flower is a ______.
paradox
Juliet tells Romeo: “Parting is such sweet sorrow / That I shall say good night till it be morrow.” “Sweet sorrow” is an example of ______.
oxymoron
When we first meet Friar Lawrence, he describes the coming of dawn with these words: “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.” This statement, which gives a “smile” to the morning and a “frown” to the night,” is an example of _____.
personification
