Romeo and Juliet Test Flashcards
Define Alliteration
Two or more stressed syllables of a word either with the same consonant sound or sound group
Define Anaphora
Repetition of a word (or words) at the beginning of two or more successive verses, or sentences
Define Apostrophe
Digression addressed to someone not present, or personified object or idea
Define Aside
Actor’s lines not supposed to be heard by another character, only audience can hear
Define Assonance
Partial Rhyme
Define Blank Verse
Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter
Define Comic Relief
An amusing scene introduced into a serious or tragic part, to provide relief from tension
Define Dramatic Irony
Irony understood by audience, but not the characters
Define Dramatic Monologue
Single character reveals himself/herself and the dramatic situation in poetic form
Define Flashback
Event of scene that took place before
Define Foreshadowing
to show or indicate beforehand
Define Hyperbole
Obvious exaggeration
Define imagery
the formation of mental images by a book or piece of literature
Define metaphor
term/phrase is applied to something to which is not literally acceptable
Define Pun
humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest different meaning, a play on words
Define Simile
Direct Comparison of 2 things
Define soliloquy
Talking to oneself in a drama
Give an example of alliteration
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
Give an example of anaphora
“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;
Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be”
Give an example of apostrophe
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon”.
Give an example of aside
Romeo speaks an aside in Act II, Scene ii of “Romeo and Juliet” when he is standing beneath the balcony where Juliet is speaking, unaware that anyone hears her
Give an example of assonance
“For men so old as we keep the peace”
Give an example of blank verse
Shakespeare’s plays
Give an example of comic relief
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat down love” -Mercutio
Give an example of dramatic irony
Mercutio and Benvolio think Romeo is still pining over Rosaline, but the audience knows he has moved on to Juliet
Give an example of dramatic monologue
The Balcony Scene
Give an example of flashback
There are no flashbacks in Romeo and Juliet (IDK???)
Give an example of foreshadowing
“Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and the rank poison of the old will die”
Give an example of hyperbole
“There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.”
Give an example of imagery
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn Bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear”
Give an example of metaphor
The Prince compares the fighting Capulets and Montagues to beasts, saying that they will quench the fire of their harmful rage with blood
Give an example of pun
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”
Grave meaning serious, but in this case, dead.
Give an example of simile
love “pricks like a thorn”
Give an example of soliloquy
“What light through yonder window breaks?”
Where is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?
Verona, Italy
What is Juliet’s last name?
Capulet
What is Romeo’s last name?
Montague
In the beginning, why is Romeo sad?
He is “in love” with a woman, and she does not love him back.
In Act 1, what does Juliet think of Paris?
She does not want to marry him, but will talk to him at the party
What do the following lines mean?
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon,
That monthly changes in her circle orb,
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable”
Juliet tells Romeo not to swear by the moon, because the moon constantly changes, and she doesn’t want Romeo to change
What do the following lines mean?
“Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power”
There is a good side and a bad side to everything, good and evil.
What do the following lines mean?
“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast”
Be wise and slow, those who rush will stumble and fall
What do the following lines mean?
“Are you so hot? Marry, come up, I trow.
Is this the poultice for my aching bones?
Henceforward do your messages yourself”
The nurse is telling Juliet to stop complaining. She asks ‘is this what I get for helping you’?
