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Final Jeopardy

Characters

$100 Answer from Literary Devices

This occurs when the audience knows something the characters do not; for instance, when Romeo comments on how lifelike Juliet’s “corpse” looks

$100 Question from Literary Devices

What is dramatic irony?

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$200 Answer from Literary Devices

This is a long speech delivered by a character who is alone onstage.

$200 Question from Literary Devices

What is a soliloquy?

$300 Answer from Literary Devices

This is anything a character says in a play that others onstage are not intended to hear.

$300 Question from Literary Devices

What is an aside?

$400 Answer from Literary Devices

This is a reference to another work of literature, music, art, history, mythology, etc.

$400 Question from Literary Devices

What is allusion?

$500 Answer from Literary Devices

This is the humorous use of words, using two or more meanings.

$500 Question from Literary Devices

What is a pun?

$100 Answer from Characters

This is the man Juliet’s family wants her to marry.

$100 Question from Characters

Who is Paris?

$200 Answer from Characters

This man was a relative of the Prince and a friend and character foil to Romeo; his last words were, “A plague on both your houses!”

$200 Question from Characters

Who is Mercutio?

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$300 Answer from Characters

This character, employed by the Capulets, once had a daughter Juliet’s age.

$300 Question from Characters

Who is the Nurse?

$400 Answer from Characters

This character blames himself for the tragedy, although he was motivated by a desire to bring peace to the two families.

$400 Question from Characters

Who is Friar Laurence?

$500 Answer from Characters

This Capulet kinsman is known for his swordsmanship and fiery temper.

$500 Question from Characters

Who is Tybalt?

This is a fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter with a specific rhyme scheme.

$100 Answer from More Literary Terms

$100 Question from More Literary Terms

What is a sonnet?

$200 Answer from More Lit Terms

This is a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy end.

$200 Question from More Lit Terms

What is a tragedy?

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$300 Answer from More Lit Terms

The deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt mark this “turning point” in the plot of Romeo and Juliet

$300 Question from More Lit Terms

What is the climax?

$400 Answer from More Lit Terms

This character delivers background information via the Prologue

$400 Question from Vocabulary

Who is the Chorus?

Lord Capulet’s changing of the wedding day from Wednesday to Thursday and Friar John’s failure to get the letter to Mantua are both examples of these.

$500 Answer from More Literary Terms

$500 Question from More Literary Terms

What are complications?

$100 Answer from Quote ID

This character laments, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would

smell as sweet.”

$100 Question from Quote ID

Who is Juliet?

$200 Answer from Quote ID

This character gets the “last word” when he proclaims, “A glooming peace this

morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not show his head…

For never was there story of more woeThan this of Juliet, and her Romeo.

$200 Question from Quote ID

Who is Prince Escalus?

$300 Answer from Quote IDThis man—a peacemaker who wants everyone to be happy—tries to encourage and cheer his friend by suggesting, “Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

$300 Question from Quote ID

Who is Benvolio?

$400 Answer from Quote ID

Romeo complains of his unrequited love for this woman, who will “not be hit / With Cupid’s arrow.”

$400 Question from Quote ID

Who is Rosaline?

$500 Answer from Quote ID

Romeo uses this literary technique when he speaks of “brawling love / O loving hate…heavy lightness, serious vanity…feather of lead, bright smoke…”

$500 Question from Quote ID

What is oxymoron?

$100 Answer from Shakespeare

This woman reigned over England during much of Shakespeare’s career; after her death, King James ascended to

the throne and became patron of Shakespeare’s theatrical company.

$100 Question from Shakespeare

Who is Queen Elizabeth I?

Shakespeare became a prolific writer of this kind of poetry when the theaters closed due to plague

$200 Answer from Shakespeare

$200 Question from Shakespeare

What is a sonnet?

$300 Answer from Shakespeare

This is the name of Shakespeare’s theater.

$300 Question from Shakespeare

What is the Globe?

$400 Answer from Shakespeare

This is literary, artistic, and musical “rebirth” that took place in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries.

$400 Question from Shakespeare

What is the Renaissance?

This was the original name of Shakespeare’s theatrical company.

$500 Answer from Shakespeare

$500 Question from Shakespeare

What is the Lord Chamberlain’s Men?

Final Jeopardy

Final Jeopardy Question:

This is the name of Shakespeare’s wife (hint:

also the name of this actress)