ACT I
When the play opens, Romeo is in love with
Rosaline
Why did Tybalt send a letter to Romeo’s house
to challenge him to a fight
Why does Romeo try to calm Tybalt when he sees that Tybalt and Mercutio are fighting
Tybalt is now Romeo’s cousin-in-law since Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin
ACT IV. In Act 4 what preparations are being made?
Wedding preparations
Romeo rushes from Mantua to Verona because
He heard that Juliet is dead
The result of the Capulet servant biting his thumb at the Montagues
A fight breaks out
What happens during the balcony scene
Romeo and Juliet declare their love for each other
What happens when Romeo intervenes in the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio?
Tybalt, under Romeo’s arm, stabs Mercutio/ Tybalt kills Mercutio
What is the Friars plan for Juliet so she can escape her marriage to Paris?
Drink a drug to make her fall asleep for 42 hours and then run away to Mantua with Romeo
Why does Paris go to Juliet’s tomb
to mourn Juliet’s death
The reason The Prince is angry at the beginning of the play
the Capulets’ and Montagues’ feud
During the balcony scene, what plan do Romeo & Juliet make for their future
To get married
Who kills Tybalt?
Romeo
In Act IV, why does Shakespeare employ (use) the servants and musicians
For Comic relief (to provide comedy) in the tragic play
Paris attacks Romeo at the tomb because Paris believes that Romeo
has come to damage the tomb or the dead bodies
the punishment if the Montagues and Capulets have another brawl
death
Translate this line:
Wherefore art thou Romeo?
Why are you named Romeo?
Where does Romeo go to hide after the fight
Friar Laurence’s cell
Juliet finally agrees to marry Paris because
The Friar advised her to pretend that she agrees
Minutes before Juliet awakens..this happens
Romeo kills Paris and then poisons himself
Romeo’s parents have been worried about him because
seems unaccountably sad and depressed
After he speaks to Juliet, why does Romeo visit Friar Laurence
to ask Friar Laurence to marry him to Juliet
When the Nurse brings news of Tybalt’s death, Juliet is confused. Why?
thinks Romeo has been killed
What role do the musicians and servants play?
They are the comic relief
Friar Laurence’s plans fail because
The letter does not get delivered to Romeo
Romeo agrees to go to Capulet’s party because
wants to see Rosaline
At first Friar Laurence cannot believe that Romeo is serious about Juliet because he thinks
Romeo is in love with someone else
What is Romeo's punishment for killing Tybalt?
he has been banished
Who discover Juliet's body first?
The nurse
How Juliet dies
by stabbing herself
Tybalt’s is described as...
The Friar agrees to perform Romeo and Juliet’s marriage in the hope that it will
stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets
What Friar Laurence told Romeo to do secretly before he leaves Verona
Romeo should visit Juliet and spend the night with her
Juliet’s 3 fears about taking the potion
might not work / might wear off too soon and wake up to early without Romeo / might be poison and kill her
The Montagues and Capulets settle their differences at the end and pay tribute to their children by doing what?
Build gold statues of Romeo and Juliet
How does Capulet react when Tybalt wants to fight Romeo at the party
He is angry at Tybalt’s behavior
Why does Romeo sneak into Capulet’s orchard after he leaves the party
He wants to see Juliet again / get away from Mercutio
The name of the place that Romeo will run off to escape his banishment
Mantua
Capulet says "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field" What figurative language is used, and what does it mean?
Simile is used. It means that death comes suddenly and without notice just like a cold frost on a flower.
Beauty's ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and thy cheeks, / And deaths pale flag is not advanced there.-" What does this mean?
Juliet's lips and cheeks are still red (warmth), therefore have a little glimpse of life in them. Death has not taken over her completely.