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Question 1

What is machismo?

Answer 1

strong or aggressive masculine pride. E.g Tybalt

Question 2

What is antithesist?

Answer 2

a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else. E.g Tybalt, Benvolio

Question 3

What is iambic pentameter?

Answer 3

Iambic pentameter is a rhythm structure, used most commonly in poetry, that combines unstressed syllables and stressed syllables in groups of five. E.g the prologue

Question 4

What is a sonnet

Answer 4

A fourteen-line poem e.g the prologue

Question 5

What is shared lines?

Answer 5

Whem two or more characters share a line of iambic verse between them

Question 6

What is prose?

Answer 6

Written or spoken language in its ordinary form

Question 7

What is verse?

Answer 7

Writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme

Question 8

What is fate?

Answer 8

The development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power.

Question 9

What is free will?

Answer 9

The power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion.

Question 10

What is honour?

Answer 10

High respect or great esteem

Question 11

What is a society?

Answer 11

People living together in a more or less ordered community.

Question 12

What is a patriarchy?

Answer 12

A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is reckoned through the male line

Question 13

What is a primogeniture?

Answer 13

The firstborn child

Question 14

What is a feud?

Answer 14

Quarrel or dispute

Question 15

What is impetuous?

Answer 15

Acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

Question 16

What is emotional?

Answer 16

Relating to a person’s emotions.

Question 17

What is volatile?

Answer 17

Something that can change rapidly or unexpectedly. E.g Romeo loving Rosalind then Juliet

Question 18

What is courtly love?

Answer 18

Love between a knight and a married noblewoman

Question 19

What is a Greek tragedy

Answer 19

a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character.

The play of Romeo and Juilet is a very Tragic

Question 20

What is tragic protagonists

Answer 20

A tragic protagonists is the main character of a tradegy.

Romeo and Juilet are the tragic protagonists

Question 21

What is an antagonist?

Answer 21

a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.

Tybalt is the antagonist

Question 22

What is an extended metaphor

Answer 22

An extended metaphor is a version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.

Question 23

What is a soliloquy?

Answer 23

an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play

Romeo has a soliloquy and only main people often have a soliloquy.

Question 24

What is an aside?

Answer 24

a remark or passage in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.

It is when you are speaking to someone close to you but the other people in the set can’t hear it and the audience can.

Question 25

What is hubris?

Answer 25

excessive pride or self-confidence

For instance tybalt is a character whith excessive pride and self confidence so he has hubris

Question 26

What is hamartia?

Answer 26

a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine

Romeo’s hamartia is being the son of the enemy family to Juilet

Question 27

What is catharsis?

Answer 27

the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Romeo had Catharsis when in the search for Juilet

Question 28

What is dramatic irony?

Answer 28

the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

Question 29

What is a monologue?

Answer 29

a long speech by one actor in a play or film, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast programme

Prince Escalus gave a monolgue to Capulets and Montague.

Question 30

What is unrequited love?

Answer 30

When you love someone but they don’t love you back

Question 31

What is a rhyming couplet?

Answer 31

a rhyming pair of successive lines of verse, typically of the same length.

Question 32

What is a protagonist?

Answer 32

The leading character or one of the major characters in a play, film, novel ect.

Question 33

Quixotic

Answer 33

Extremely idealistic: unrealistic and impractical

Question 34

Melancholic

Answer 34

A feeling of sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

Question 35

Ingenuous

Answer 35

Innocent or unsuspecting