Characters
This character tries to keep the peace but ends up cursing both houses.
Who is Mercutio?
This is where Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time.
What is the Capulet party(or ball)?
"These violent delights have violent ends."
Who is Friar Laurence?
This long-standing feud drives most of the conflict in the play.
What is the Capulet vs. Montague feud?
The opening 14-line poem in the Prologue is this type of poem.
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
Juliet’s cousin who is hot-headed and quick to challenge Romeo.
Who is Tybalt?
Romeo is banished after this event.
What is killing Tybalt?
"A plague o’ both your houses!"
Who is Mercutio?
Juliet experiences this internal conflict after Romeo kills Tybalt.
What is being torn between loyalty to her family and her love for Romeo?
This term describes when the audience knows Juliet is already married, but her parents do not.
What is dramatic irony?
This man asks Lord Capulet for Juliet’s hand in marriage.
Who is Paris?
This is the reason Tybalt wants to fight Romeo.
What is Romeo crashing the Capulet party?
"My only love sprung from my only hate!"
Who is Juliet?
This character challenges Romeo, escalating the feud.
Who is Tybalt?
Romeo compares Juliet to the sun, which is an example of this.
What is a metaphor?
Romeo’s trusted friend who warns him about falling in love too fast.
Who is Friar Laurence?
After marrying Juliet, Romeo refuses to do this with Tybalt.
What is fight him?
"What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
Juliet faces this external conflict when her father insists she marry Paris.
What is the pressure of arranged marriage vs. her secret marriage?
"O brawling love, O loving hate" is an example of this literary device.
What is an oxymoron?
This servant can’t read, but accidentally helps Romeo crash a party.
Who is Peter?
This event is moved up in the hopes of cheering Juliet up.
What is the wedding between Juliet and Paris?
"If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
Who is Prince Escalus?
Romeo struggles with this after being banished from Verona.
What is guilt, grief, and separation from Juliet?
The use of light and dark imagery in the play is an example of this broader literary concept.
What is a motif?