Guess Who?
Before the Capulet feast, what does Lady Capulet tell Juliet regarding Paris?
To see if Juliet can love him and consent to marry.
Where is Juliet discovered after she consumes the potion that makes her appear dead?
"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."
Juliet!
Act 1 scene 1: Who is fighting at the beginning of the first scene?
What type of figurative language is this an example of?
"But soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
metaphor
Name the first person who died in the play
Mercutio (Romeo's Friend)
Where did Romeo and Juliet first meet?
At the Capulet Feast
Who said to Romeo "Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow".
Benvolio.
Who tries to break up the fight between the servants of both families?
Benvolio
To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,
Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back
With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
hyperbole
A character in Romeo and Juliet known for their fiery temper and fierce loyalty to their family. This character is involved in several conflicts with members of the rival family, who is it?
Tybalt
Where did the most famous scene in the story take place? (hint: Wherefore art thou Romeo?)
On Juliet's balcony
To what does Romeo first compare Juliet during the balcony scene?
To the morning Sun.
Act 1 scene 1: What threat does the Prince make to Lord Montague and Lord Capulet?
That the next person to start a public brawl will be put to death
Then love-devouring death do what he dare...
alliteration
Who performs Romeo and Juliet's marriage?
Friar Lawrence
What does "Wherefore art thou Romeo" mean?
Why are you Romeo (a Montague)?
Right before he dies, who says, "A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me!"
(3.1.95-6)
Mercutio
Act 1 scene 1: Benvolio and Montague describe the way Romeo has been acting. What do they say about him?
He has been gloomy, depressed, weepy, and is alone a lot.
What is soliloquy?
A speech delivered while the speaker is alone.
Who delivers the news of Juliet's death?
Benvolio and he was wrong!!
Why does Romeo want to go to the Capulet Feast?
He wants to see Rosaline
Who 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!"
Romeo
What do Romeo and Juliet decide at the end of the balcony scene?
The decide to get married!
What is this an example of?
"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!"
oxymoron