Characters
Who is in love with Rosaline at the play’s beginning?
Romeo
The prologue of Romeo and Juliet can be described as a(n) ______________?
Sonnet
The play is set in ____________.
Verona, Italy
The message that Romeo does receive is that
Juliet is dead
Who is only 13 years old?
Juliet
Who is Romeo’s cousin and good friend?
Benvolio
The lines, “O, I am Fortune’s fool!” and “Then I deny you, stars!” are expressions
Cosmic Irony
Friar Lawrence decides to marry Romeo and Juliet because he
hopes to end the families’ feud
Romeo does not receive Friar Lawrence’s message in Mantua because
Friar John is delayed by the plague.
Juliet’s father decides that she will marry
Paris
Who confesses the whole truth about Romeo and Juliet to the Prince.
Friar Laurence
Romeo gives a speech beneath Juliet’s balcony expressing his innermost thoughts. He knows Juliet cannot hear him. This speech is an example of a(n) ___________.
Soliloquy
Who is is the first to discover that Juliet is “dead” (though Friar Laurence also knows
Nurse
Who is quarantined and unable to carry out an important task.
Friar John
Who declares that anyone who continues fighting will be put to death?
Prince Escalus
Who is quarantined and unable to carry out an important task.
Friar John
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” is an example of a
pun
After the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, the Prince decrees that
Romeo be banished
Paris is angry when he sees Romeo at the tomb because
he thinks Romeo is there to disturb the bodies
Another word for Apothecary is?
Pharmacist
The first character to die in Act 5 is _______.
Paris
In the quote, "O my sweet mother, cast me not away! / Delay this marriage for a month, a week; / Or if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies, what literary term is present?
foreshadowing
Who dies by Tybalt’s sword
Mercutio
Romeo speaks the line "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?” as an example of an
aside
Who confesses the whole truth about Romeo and Juliet to the Prince.
Friar Laurence