Basic Knowledge
What are names of the 2 houses included in the book/
Capulet, and montague
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field"
Simile
"A plague o' both your houses!
Mercutio
"A plague o' both your houses"
(Act 3)
Where does the book take place?
Verona
Who did Romeo love originally?
Rosaline
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
Metaphor
"O, Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?"
Juliet
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo"
(Act 2)
Montague
Who is Juliet supposed to love?
Paris
"Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives. That I mean to make bold withal, and, as you shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight. Will you pluck your sword out of his pitcher by the ears?"
Metaphor
"I Defy you, stars"
Romeo
"These violent delights have violet ends."
(Act 2)
What family is Juliet apart of?
Capulet
Where is Romeo banished to?
Mantua
"What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind."
oxymoron
"Tempt not a desperate man"
Friar Lawrence
"A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life."
What does biting your thumb to someone mean?
Giving the middle finger, or challenging them to a fight.
How does the book start off?
By the prolouge setting the scene
"Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,
And young affection gapes to be his heir;
That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,
With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair."
Assonance
"O, I am fortunes fool"
Romeo
"O happy dagger, this is thy sheath:there rust, and let me die."
(Act 5)
Who killed Mercutio?
Tybalt