I Can Speaketh Shakespeare
What does Mercutio mean when he says, "Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm"?
When Romeo attempted to hold back Mercutio, Tybalt stabbed Mercutio under Romeo's arm.
In scene 1, who says, "A plague o' both your houses"?
Mercutio
"And to’t they go like lightning, for ere I could draw to part them was stout Tybalt slain." What does Benvolio use to describe the duel between Tybalt and Romeo?
What does Romeo mean when he says, "O, I am fortune's fool"?
He's saying that he has really bad luck.
In scene 5, who says, "Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch"?
"Oh, how my heart abhors to hear him named, and cannot come to him. To wreak the love I bore my cousin upon his body that slaughtered him!" What literary element is being exemplified?
"Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting." What is Romeo saying?
Romeo, without much explanation, tells Tybalt that he is not offended by Tybalt's insult and has a reason to love him.
In scene 3, who says, "There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself"?
What type of irony does Mercutio use when he says, "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough. Where is my page?—Go, villain, fetch a surgeon"?
"Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name, when I, thy three hours' wife, have mangled it? But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?" What is Juliet saying?
Juliet is struggling to comprehend Romeo's duel with Tybalt.
In scene 5, who says, "Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee"?
In act 3, scene 1, Mercutio teases Benvolio for his temper and need to fight, but then quickly persuades Tybalt to duel. This is an example of...
Translate this portion of Juliet's soliloquy: "Oh, I have bought the mansion of love, but not possessed it, and though I am sold, not yet enjoyed".
She is frustrated that she must wait for her marriage night.
To whom is Romeo speaking, in scene 3, when he says, "Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, an hour but married, Tybalt murdered, doting like me, and like me banished, then mightst thou speak, then mightst thou tear thy hair and fall upon the ground, as I do now, taking the measure of an unmade grave"?
Which literary device is being exemplified when Juliet says, "O God, I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale"?
Foreshadowing (see prologue)
Lord Capulet decides to have Juliet married on Thursday.