General Info
William Shakespeare's life and career took place during which time period?
Elizabethan Renaissance in England
Where does Romeo spend his banishment?
Mantua
How would you describe Romeo?
moody, rash, passionate
When Shakespeare writes of Venus, Cupid, Aries, Diane, and others what literary element is he using?
10 syllables per line, in an unstressed/stressed pattern
what is iambic pentameter?
The strongest example of Friar Laurence making a rash decision is when he
leaves Juliet in the Capulet tomb with Romeo's dead body
WHat is the turning point (climax) in the play?
Romeo kills Tybalt
Who dies in the play?
Lady Montague, Mercutio, Tybalt, Juliet and Romeo
“Parting is such sweet sorrow” is an example of
Oxymoron and alliteration
Benvolio is considered a FOIL to Tybalt. What does this mean.
Benvolio seeks peace and Tybalt loves to fight; they're opposites
The primary setting of the play is
Verona
In the play, not the movies, why doesn’t Friar Laurence’s letter reach Romeo?
Friar John was stopped by the health officers in Mantua who thought he was exposed to the plague
At the end of the play, what does Lord Montague promise Lord Capulet?
Lord Montague will build a golden statue of Juliet Capulet
Even in death, Mercutio delivers a pun- "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." What is a pun?
a play on the multiple meanings of words
What is a statement that you think Shakespeare would agree with? (theme)
Love and hate are powerful emotions; hate can sometimes destroy love
Why does Juliet lose her trust in the Nurse by the end of Act III?
The Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris and forget about Romeo.
At the end of the play, Prince Escalus states, "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo". What mood is best established with his final words?
sad/sorrowful
In the balcony scene, Juliet says: “What’s Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face...” What does she mean?
Romeo's name is an accident of birth, not part of his personality
Lord Capulet comments, “Death lies on her like an untimely frost/ Upon the sweetest flower of all the field" when he believes that Juliet has died. His words are an example of
simile and personification
When Romeo feels sad that Rosaline does not love him back, he is feeling the effects of
Unrequited love
Throughout the play, the audience sees Juliet's character develop as she primarily
Goes against loyalty to her family in order to be with Romeo
JULIET (Act 5): "Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die." In the lines above the “sheath” that Juliet refers to is
her body
In Act 2, Juliet wished the Nurse would be “as swift in motion as a ball.” This phrase means that
Juliet is impatient to hear the nurse's news
"How silver sweet sound lover’s tongues by night” is an example of
alliteration
When Shakespeare started a play with a fight scene or a love scene, he was primarily trying to entertain
the groundlings