Guess Who?
Juliet's parents want her to marry this eligible bachelor.
Who is Paris?
This character tells Romeo that Juliet is dead.
Who is Balthasar?
This character says the following: "Oh Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father, and refuse thy name! / or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / and I'll no longer be a Capulet" (2.2.35-38).
Who is Juliet?
These characters start a brawl (large fight) at the beginning of Act 1 Scene 1.
Who are the servants of the Capulets and Montagues?
The following is an example of THIS type of figurative language.
"But soft, what light from yonder window breaks? /
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.2-3).
What is (a) metaphor?
This "mercurial" character is the first to die in the play.
Who is Mercutio (Romeo's Friend)?
Romeo and Juliet first meet HERE...
What is/where is the party at the Capulets' home?
This character says to Romeo, of Rosaline, "Compare her face with some that I shall show, / and I will make thee think thy swan a crow" (1.2.88-89).
Who is Benvolio?
This character tries to break up the fight between the servants of both families.
Who is Benvolio?
The following quote from Friar Laurence is an example of this exaggerative literary device: "To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, /
Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back /
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy" (3.3.157-159).
What is hyperbole?
This character kills Tybalt to avenge Mercutio's death.
Who is Romeo?
The play's most famous scene takes place here, amidst Capulet's garden (hint: "Wherefore art thou Romeo?).
What is/where is Juliet's balcony?
Romeo first compares Juliet to this celestial body during the balcony scene.
What is the (morning) sun?
What is death/execution?
The following lines are an example of this literary device: "Then love-devouring death do what he dare -- / It is enough that I may call her mine" (2.6.7-8).
What is alliteration?
This character agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet when he sees the potential benefits to such a match.
Who is Friar Laurence?
In the famous Act 2 Scene 2 line, "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?", the word wherefore means:
What is why (are you a Montague)?
Right before he dies, this character says, "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me!"
(3.1.95-6)
Who is Mercutio?
In Act 1 Scene 1, Benvolio and Lord Montague discuss Romeo's mood, which could be described as:
What is gloomy, depressed, weepy, etc.?
A speech delivered while a character is alone on stage and which reveals the character's inner thoughts and feelings is called this:
What is a soliloquy?
This character is Juliet's confidant (a close, trusted person) and messenger.
Who is (the, Juliet's) Nurse?
The play takes place in this Italian city.
What is/where is Verona?
This character says, "See how she leans her cheek upon her hand! / O that I were a glove upon that hand, /
That I might touch that cheek!" (2.2.23-25).
In Act 1 Scene 1, Romeo is sad because he is in love with this character, who does not love him back and plans to become a nun.
Who is Rosaline?
This literary device describes a situation in which the audience is aware of something of which one or more characters in the play is/are unaware; this is exemplified in the scene where Lord Capulet and company are excitedly preparing for the wedding, not realizing that Juliet has taken "poison" in her room and appears to be dead.
What is dramatic irony?