Romeo and Juliet Test

Question 1

Define Alliteration

Answer 1

Two or more stressed syllables of a word either with the same consonant sound or sound group

Question 2

Define Anaphora

Answer 2

Repetition of a word (or words) at the beginning of two or more successive verses, or sentences

Question 3

Define Apostrophe

Answer 3

Digression addressed to someone not present, or personified object or idea

Question 4

Define Aside

Answer 4

Actor’s lines not supposed to be heard by another character, only audience can hear

Question 5

Define Assonance

Answer 5

Partial Rhyme

Question 6

Define Blank Verse

Answer 6

Unrhymed Iambic Pentameter

Question 7

Define Comic Relief

Answer 7

An amusing scene introduced into a serious or tragic part, to provide relief from tension

Question 8

Define Dramatic Irony

Answer 8

Irony understood by audience, but not the characters

Question 9

Define Dramatic Monologue

Answer 9

Single character reveals himself/herself and the dramatic situation in poetic form

Question 10

Define Flashback

Answer 10

Event of scene that took place before

Question 11

Define Foreshadowing

Answer 11

to show or indicate beforehand

Question 12

Define Hyperbole

Answer 12

Obvious exaggeration

Question 13

Define imagery

Answer 13

the formation of mental images by a book or piece of literature

Question 14

Define metaphor

Answer 14

term/phrase is applied to something to which is not literally acceptable

Question 15

Define Pun

Answer 15

humorous use of a word or phrase to suggest different meaning, a play on words

Question 16

Define Simile

Answer 16

Direct Comparison of 2 things

Question 17

Define soliloquy

Answer 17

Talking to oneself in a drama

Question 18

Give an example of alliteration

Answer 18

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”

Question 19

Give an example of anaphora

Answer 19

“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be”

Question 20

Give an example of apostrophe

Answer 20

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon”.

Question 21

Give an example of aside

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Give an example of assonance

Answer 22

“For men so old as we keep the peace”

Question 23

Give an example of blank verse

Answer 23

Shakespeare’s plays

Question 24

Give an example of comic relief

Answer 24

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love. Prick love for pricking, and you beat down love” -Mercutio

Question 25

Give an example of dramatic irony

Answer 25

Mercutio and Benvolio think Romeo is still pining over Rosaline, but the audience knows he has moved on to Juliet

Question 26

Give an example of dramatic monologue

Answer 26

The Balcony Scene

Question 27

Give an example of flashback

Answer 27

There are no flashbacks in Romeo and Juliet (IDK???)

Question 28

Give an example of foreshadowing

Answer 28

“Take thou some new infection to thy eye, and the rank poison of the old will die”

Question 29

Give an example of hyperbole

Answer 29

“There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself.”

Question 30

Give an example of imagery

Answer 30

“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”

Question 31

Give an example of metaphor

Answer 31

The Prince compares the fighting Capulets and Montagues to beasts, saying that they will quench the fire of their harmful rage with blood

Question 32

Give an example of pun

Answer 32

“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”

Grave meaning serious, but in this case, dead.

Question 33

Give an example of simile

Answer 33

love “pricks like a thorn”

Question 34

Give an example of soliloquy

Answer 34

“What light through yonder window breaks?”

Question 35

Where is the setting of Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 35

Verona, Italy

Question 36

What is Juliet’s last name?

Answer 36

Capulet

Question 37

What is Romeo’s last name?

Answer 37

Montague

Question 38

In the beginning, why is Romeo sad?

Answer 38

He is “in love” with a woman, and she does not love him back.

Question 39

In Act 1, what does Juliet think of Paris?

Answer 39

She does not want to marry him, but will talk to him at the party

Question 40

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”

Answer 40

Juliet tells Romeo not to swear by the moon, because the moon constantly changes, and she doesn’t want Romeo to change

Question 41

What do the following lines mean?
“Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power”

Answer 41

There is a good side and a bad side to everything, good and evil.

Question 42

What do the following lines mean?

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast”

Answer 42

Be wise and slow, those who rush will stumble and fall

Question 43

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”

Answer 43

The nurse is telling Juliet to stop complaining. She asks ‘is this what I get for helping you’?