Act 4
Act 4 scene 2: When Juliet returns home from seeing the Friar, what is happening?
Her parents are preparing for her wedding.
Act 4 scene 5: After Juliet's death why does the Friar suggest that "nature's tears are reason's for merriment? Is he suggesting that the Capulets should be happy? and why?
She is in heaven now.
Act 5 scene 2: Why is it essential that Friar Lawrence find Juliet before Romeo does?
Romeo may do something drastic (like kill himself)
Act 5 scene 3: What does Romeo do right before he takes the poison?
He kisses her.
Act 5 scene 3: What do Capulet and Montague agree to do in Romeo and Juliet's honor?
Capulet will gove Montague the wedding rights (land,money, etc.) and Montague will build a gold statue made in Juliet's image.
Act 4 scene 2: How does Capulet respond to Juliet saying she will happily marry Paris?
He moves the wedding date closer.
Act 5 scene 1: What news does Romeo's servant Balthazar, who arrives from Verona, tell him?
That Juliet is dead.
Act 5 scene 3: Who arrives at the tomb while Romeo is mourning Juliet?
Paris
Act 5 scene 3: What does Romeo do after he kisses Juliet? (as he is beside Juliet)
He drinks the poison.
Who do the Montagues and Capulets blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?
Themselves
Act 4 scene 2: How does Capulet's response put a kink in Friar Lawrence's plan?
By moving the time of the wedding to a closer date there is less time to get word to Romeo about their plan
Act 5 scene 1: What does the reader know that Balthazar does not?
That Juliet is not dead
Act 5 scene 3: What has Paris come to do?
Decorate Juliet's tomb with flowers.
Act 5 scene 3: When does Juliet wake up?
What do we call the type of figurative language that gives human-like qualities to a non-human thing?
personification
Act 4 scene 3: What thoughts run through Juliet's mind as she is about to take the potion? (4 things)
What if it doesn't work? What is the potion actually kills her and Friar Lawrence wants her dead? What is she wakes up too early and suffocates? What if the dead spirits of her ancestors haunt her and drive her insane as she is waiting for Romeo?
Act 5 scene1: Romeo plans to return to Verona; where does he stop and what does he buy before leaving?
A deadly poison
Act 5 scene 3: What happens to Paris in Juliet's tomb?
Romeo kills him
Act 5 scene 3: When the Friar enters and Juliet is awake what is his advice to her?
Become a nun
Romeo and Juliet are called "star-crossed lovers." What does this mean?
doomed; characterized by bad luck, double-crossed by fate
Act 4 scene 3: Who does Juliet toast to as she is about to take the poison?
Romeo
Act 5 scene 1: (When Romeo take a hold of the poison) Why does Romeo say that the vile (poison) is NOT a poison, but a liquid that will GIVE him life
It will enable him to be with Juliet forever.
Act 5 scene 3: When Romeo finally sees Juliet lying there what does her notice about her?
That she doesn't really look dead and that her cheeks and lips are turning red
Act 5 scene 3: What are the two ways Juliet attempts to kill herself after she discovers Romeo has died?
Poison, dagger
Romeo's speech at the beginning of the balcony scene is an example of _______
a soliloquy