Elizabethan Language
Another name for a spoiled child.
What is a wanton?
The "Fair Saint" we meet well into Act I.
Who is Juliet?
Benvolio tells Romeo to go to a party so that he can get over this girl.
Who is Rosaline?
Although it's key to the plot, the origin of this is never revealed in the prologue.
What is the feud between Montagues and Capulets?
Who are Benvolio and Mercutio?
The meaning of "wherefore."
What is "Why?"
A peacekeeper who tries to break up a fight between Montagues and Capulets.
Who is Benvolio?
Romeo and Juliet's first encounter takes this poetic form.
What is a sonnet?
Who begins the street fight that ends with the Prince threatening execution for any more such "civil brawls"?
Double points if you can name two out of four!
Friar Laurence decides that Romeo and Juliet should marry, because it might end this.
What is the "ancient grudge" between Montagues and Capulets?
What is a "tassel-gentle"?
A clergyman-botanist-healer-mentor.
Who is Friar Laurence?
Double points! What two metaphors does Friar Laurence use to describe the sweet but potentially explosive feelings of Romeo and Juliet?
"Fire and powder/ Which as they kiss consume"
and
"The sweetest honey/ is loathsome in his own deliciousness,/ And in the taste confounds the appetite"
This character sends the first few scenes of Act I moping, until he reads a letter for a servant, and Benvolio convinces him to crash a party.
Who is Romeo?
Friar Laurence compares this to the "poison" and "medicine power" derived from the same plant extract.
*Double Points!*
What is virtue and vice in people, depending on how they use a quality or trait.
The modern meaning of "soft!"
This character helps arrange Romeo and Juliet's marriage, then teases Juliet before revealing when it will be.
Who is the nurse?
This capulet recognizes Romeo 'by his voice' at the Capulet party?
Who is Tybalt?
Who is Juliet?
What does Juliet say would happen to Romeo if she were a spoiled little child and he were her pet bird?
She says she would, "kill thee with much cherishing."
**Double Points!**
Capulet means the Romeo behaves like a dignified person of good breeding. He calls Tybalt a "Saucy Boy"
This character urges Capulet to let him marry Juliet.
Who is Paris?
Romeo's conundrum as he watches Juliet talk about how much she likes him, unaware that he's standing in her yard.
What is, "Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?!"
This character says, "woo her gentle Paris, get her heart;/ My will to her consent is but a part"
Who is Capulet?
What is "love moderately"