Characters
This character loves Juliet like family, first helping her be with Romeo then telling her to consider Paris.
Who is the Nurse?
Mercutio shouts, “A ___________ o’ both your houses!” as he is dying.
What is plague?
The play primarily takes place in this city and country.
What is Verona, Italy?
The events of Act 1, Scene 1, caused the prince to forbid THIS in Verona streets.
What is fighting?
“Juliet is the sun” is an example of this figurative language device.
What is a metaphor?
This character is nicknamed "The Prince of Cats."
Who is Tybalt?
This character says, "What say you? Can you love the gentleman? This night you shall behold him at our feast"
In the beginning of the play, Juliet is 2 weeks away from turning this age.
Romeo killed Tybalt because.... (be specific)
What is Tybalt killed Mercutio?
"Romeo was wounded with Cupid's arrow" is an example of this.
What is an allusion?
This character acts as Romeo’s confidante. Romeo turns to him for advice and support.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
When Juliet says “Wherefore art thou Romeo,” she is really saying what?
Why are you, Romeo, a Montague?
When Romeo is still upset by Rosaline’s rejection, Benvolio gives his cousin this advice.
What is find another girl?
Who is the nurse?
"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs" is an example of ________________.
What is metaphor?
This character was quarantined on the way to Mantua and could not deliver an important letter to Romeo.
Who is Friar John?
This is the equivalent of a curse word in Elizabethan English.
What is "zounds" or "fie"?
In the beginning of the play Lord Capulet doesn’t want Juliet to marry Paris because _________________.
What is she is too young?
By doing this, Romeo caused Tybalt to challenge him and eventually kill Mercutio.
What is show up at the Capulets' party?
“These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and power, which, as they kiss, consume.” This is an example of __________________.
What is a simile?
This character swore she would live chaste forever, rather than "opening her lap to saint-seducing gold."
Who is Rosaline?
“Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes” is another way of saying this.
What is young men are shallow/superficial? Or, What is young men only care about looks?
Servants, the nurse, and lower-class characters mainly serve this purpose in the play. (Write the specific term)
What is provide comic/comedic relief?
This is the Friar Lawrence's eccentric hobby. Unfortunately, it partly led to Juliet's downfall.
"For Venus smiles not in a house of tears" is an example of this.
What is allusion?
Before the Capulets' party, this illiterate character accidentally shows the guest list to Romeo and Benvolio.
Who is Peter?
"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,- O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;- Which with sweet water nightly I will dew..." is spoken by Paris at this location. Be specific.
What is the Capulet tomb?
One moody, unpredictable character's name is similar to this dangerous element.
What is mercury?
The apothecary did not want to sell Romeo poison, but he agreed because he was _______________.
What is poor?
“O brawling love. O loving hate” is an example of this literary device.
What is oxymoron or parallelism?
This character told Romeo that Juliet was dead.
Who is Balthasar/Balthazar?
"Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretch! I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face" is spoken BY this person, TO this person.
Who are Lord Capulet and Juliet?
When Romeo and Juliet agree to get married, they have known each other for approximately this long. (Closest/fastest answer wins)
What is less than one day? (Between 2 and 6 hours)
Tybalt’s death directly affects Romeo, but it also causes Lord Capulet to set this up. BE SPECIFIC.
What is a marriage between Juliet and Paris?
Juliet said about Romeo, "Go ask his name: if he be married, My grave will be my wedding bed." This is an example of what?.
What is foreshadowing?
We learn at the very end of the play that this person has died (offstage) due to a broken heart/grief.
Who is Lady Montague?
The quote “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die" is spoken during this act and scene.
What is Act 5, Scene 3?
Even though Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend, he is invited to the Capulets' party because he is related to this character. (Write full name.)
Who is Prince Escalus?
Mercutio convinced Romeo to ignore his bad dreams and go to the Capulets' party during this famous speech.
What is the Queen Mab speech?
Mercutio saying “Look for me tomorrow and you shall find me a GRAVE man” as he is dying is an example of this literary device.
What is pun/double entendre?
These characters pick a fight with two Montague servants by biting a thumb at them. Write both names.
Who are Sampson and Gregory?
This speaker says the lines, "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life".
Who is the chorus?
During the balcony scene, Romeo and Juliet agree that the nurse will meet Romeo at this time the next day.
What is 9 a.m.?
Juliet hurriedly stabbed herself with Romeo's dagger because she heard this person walking into the tomb. (She didn't know who it was; she just heard a noise)
What is the Chief Watchman?
"Friar John really fumbled the bag" is an example of ___________________.
What is slang or idiom?