Characters
Romeo belongs to this family.
What are the Montague's?
“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name.”
Who is Juliet?
“Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…” are all examples of this literary term.
What is an oxymoron?
This is Friar Lawrence's motivation for secretly marrying Romeo and Juliet.
What is ending their family feud?
Mercutio blames these people for his death.
What are both the Montague and Capulet families?
Juliet belongs to this family.
What are the Capulet's?
"Thus with a kiss I die."
Who is Romeo?
“For never was a tale of more woe,
than this of Juliet and her Romeo”
What is a couplet?
This is why Friar John could not deliver Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo.
What is quarantine?
Romeo flees to this city after being banished from Verona.
What is Mantua?
This character is introduced as a peacekeeper and a member of the Montague family.
Who is Benvolio?
“A plague a’both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.”
Who is Mercutio?
“Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she…”
These two characters get into an argument after seeing Romeo at their party.
Who are Tybalt and Capulet?
This character gives Juliet the potion that fakes her death and secretly married her and Romeo.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
This character is introduced as full of hate for the Montague's and is killed by a Montague.
Who is Tybalt?
“I do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me.”
Who is Benvolio?
Romeo before the Capulet party in Act 1: “I fear too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars shall bitterly begin this fearful date… But he that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail.”
What is foreshadowing?
Romeo kills these two characters in the play.
Who are Paris and Tybalt?
This is a character that acts as a contrast to another.
What is a foil?
Romeo's friend and member of the Prince's family.
“What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.”
Who is Tybalt?
“...you have dancing shoes with nimble SOLES: I have a SOUL of lead. So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
What is a pun?
The two families agree to build these for each other's now dead children.
What are gold statues?
The prologue describes Romeo and Juliet as this.
What are star-crossed lovers?