R&J Act III - V

Who Killed Me?

100

Romeo

Romeo Killed Himself

200

Juliet

Juliet Killed Herself

300

Mercutio

Tybalt

400

Tybalt

Romeo

500

Lady Montague 

Killed by Grief

Dramatic Ironies

100

This person kills himself with poison, but his lover is only faking death by poison. 

Romeo 

200

A letter from Father Lawrence never made it into the hands of Romeo, instead he heard about Juliet from this person first. 

Balthazar.

300

This father wants Juliet to marry well by joining hands with Paris, even though she is already married to Romeo. 

Lord Capulet

400

This nephew of the Prince dies in a street fight, even though the Prince has decreed an end to the family feud that has fueled the fighting. 

Mercutio

500

You can count on this person to get in the way of Romeo's business, which is how he ends up getting killed by the mourning Romeo. 

Paris

Literary Device Identification

100

Lord Capulet says, "Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die and leave him all." 

Personification.

200

Lord Capulet says that "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field"

Simile 

300

When Mercutio says, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man"? 

A Pun

400

What Romeo uses when he describes the apothecary's shop with, "a tortoise hung, an alligator stuffed, and other skins of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves a beggarly account of empty boxes, green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds..." 

Imagery

500

This device is developed as characters repeatedly show up to the graveyard just after another character has died. (Paris, Romeo, Juliet, Lawrence) 

Motif

What does it mean for the future?

100

Romeo says, "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead - strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think - and breathed such life with kisses in my lips" 

That Romeo will die and Juliet will kiss his dead lips. 

200

Juliet, watching Romeo leave for Mantua, says "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb." 

This foreshadows Juliet seeing Romeo dead in the Capulet tomb at the end of Act 5

300

Mercutio, while he is dying, says, "A plague o' both your houses!"

This foreshadows how bad things will start happening to both families. (The first of many deaths) 

400

Juliet says "Madam, if you could find out a man to bear a poison, I would temper it, that Romeo should, upon receipt thereof, soon sleep in quiet." 

This foreshadows how Juliet's love (the poison) ultimately leads to Romeo's death. 

500

Father Lawrence says, "for naught so vile that on the earth doth live but to the earth some special good doth give. Nor aught so good but, strained from that fair use revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified." (p 97) 

This foreshadows the good that comes from the death of Romeo and Juliet, as well as the evil that comes from their love (their deaths). 

What Happened?

100

This pair of friends run into bad luck (and the end of a sword) in the streets of Verona

Benvolio and Mercutio

200

Romeo is banished to this town. 

Mantua 

300

This maid-servant carries secret messages and is often mocked by the men in the play 

The nurse

400

After Tybalt dies, this Matriarch says that the prince should not listen to Benvolio because he is Romeo's friend. 

Lady Capulet 

500

These two servants of the Capulet family start a fight in Act 1 Scene 1 of the Play 

Sampson and Gregory