Characters
What family is Romeo apart of?
What family is Juliet apart of?
The Montagues
The Capulets
The play takes place over how many days?
Three days
What events are considered the climax of the play?
The street fight in Act III, Romeo killing Tybalt, and getting banished
Who says: "These violet delights have violent ends...therefore love moderately' long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as to slow."
Friar Lawrence
What is a soliloquy?
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud
What is Friar John's duty in the play, and what happens?
He is supposed to deliver the letter to Romeo that tells him about Juliet's fake death, but he gets detained because of the plague
How does Juliet die?
She stabs herself with Romeo's knife.
Mantua
Who says: "Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! I tell the what-get thee to church a' Thursday or never after look me in the face."
Lord Capulet
Who does Juliet turn to when she needs advice?
The nurse
What is an Apothoecary and what does he give Romeo?
A druggist (a pharmacist); he sells Romeo poison.
Why does Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
He thinks it will end the family feud
Who finds Juliet after she takes the potion?
The nurse
Who says: "From ancient grudge breaks to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands Unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their own life."
The Chorus
What does "That which we call a rose would still smell" mean?
A name is just a name. What we call something does not change what it is. A rose still smells sweet even if we do not call it a rose
Which families do Sampson, Gregory, Abram, and Peter belong to? What do each of them do within the play?
Sampson and Gregory: servants of the Capulet family that provoke Montague men into the street fight in Act 1
Abram: Montague servant who fights Sampson and Gregory in Act 1
Peter: Capulet servant that invites guests to the Capulet party (also takes the nurse to meet Romeo)
Who does Romeo fight and why?
Tybalt; to avenge Mercutio's death
Who is at Juliet's tomb when Romeo arrives?
Paris
Who says: Drunk all, and left no friendly drop o help me after? I will kiss thy lip. Haply some poison on yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative."
Juliet
List all characters who die
Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Romeo, Juliet, and Lady Montague
Who asks Lord Capulet to kick Romeo out of the party?
Tybalt
How are Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers?
Fate has brought them together
What is Paris's last request?
to be buried next to Juliet
Who says: "My poverty buy not my will consents."
The Apothecary
What do the Montagues and Capulets do as a sign of peace in the end?
They bury their grievances and acknowledge their losses. They allow them to be buried together in each other's arms.