Plot Act 3
What is Romeo's reaction to the Prince's punishment for killing Tybalt?
He is full of self-pity.
Sad. Desperate.
What is Juliet's mood when she meets with Friar Lawrence in his cellar?
What is personification?
When you give inanimate objects or ideas human like qualities.
What type of figurative language is found in these lines?
O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather’d raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!”
Oxymoron
In Act 3, the Nurse suggests to Juliet that she should do what after Romeo is exiled?
Marry Paris.
Why does Capulet change the wedding to Wednesday instead of Thursday?
He is scared that Juliet may change her mind.
What is a metaphor?
When you compare two unlike ideas.
Paraphrase this quote:
“I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.
The day is hot, the Capels are abroad,
And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl,
For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.”
Benvolio is saying to Mercutio that we should go home because we may end up in a fight since the Capulets are out and about.
What does Mercutio mean when he says, "You shall find me a grave man"?
That he will be dead due to his injuries from Tybalt.
How will moving the wedding impact the Friar's plan?
It may impact the letter getting to Romeo in time.
What is a simile?
When you compare two unlike ideas or things using like or as.
Paraphrase this quote said by Juliet:
“O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feather’d raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!”
She is comparing Romeo to good and bad and isn't sure if he is honest and a good man even though he is beautiful.
What does Capulet warn Juliet of if she chooses not to marry Paris?
That he will disown her.
Describe the mood of scene 5.
What is an oxymoron?
When you use contradictory terms to describe something.
What does Friar mean in these lines:
There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, But thou slewest Tybalt: there art thou happy. The law that threatened death becomes thy friend And turns it to exile: there art thou happy. A pack of blessings light upon thy back;
He is shaming Romeo for not seeing that his life is spared since he is only exiled/banished after killing Tybalt instead of killed.
Why does Lady Capulet think Juliet is crying so much?
Over the death of Tybalt.
What type of irony is present when Juliet agrees to marry Paris?
Dramatic Irony
What is a pun?
a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings.
Who said this quote?
Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
Mercutio said this to Romeo.