A character that provides comic relief in the play.
Who is Mercutio
100
Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender
Of my child's love. I think she will be ruledIn all respects by me; nay more, I rout it not.
Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed;
Acquaint her here of my son Paris' love
What is Lord Capulet
100
This person dies as a result of Romeo's banishment
Who is Lady Montague
100
A long speech given by a character alone on stage
Give an example from the text.
What is a soliloquy
200
Described as a "hot head"
Who is Tybalt
200
How if, when I am laid in the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point!
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no health some air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
What is Juliet + analysis
200
Starts the street fight
Who is Mercutio
200
Serves to add a level of humor to tough situations
What is comic relief
300
Friar Lawrence
What is ending the family feud, love for R&J
300
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;
Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans.
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
What is Paris + analysis
300
Only two people who know about Romeo and Juliet's marriage
Who are Friar Laurence and the Nurse
300
The audience knows Romeo and Juliet will end up dying in the end.
What is dramatic irony
400
Lord Capulet
What is love for his daughter, wanting to make her happy
400
I conjour thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,
By her high forehead and scarlet lip,
By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh,
And the demesnes that there adjacent lie,
That in thy likeness thou appear to us!
What is Mercutio + analysis
400
The wedding gets moved up, Friar John is detained, Romeo gets to the tomb first
What is things that mess up the Friar's plan
400
Tybalt and Benvolio
What are foil characters
500
The Nurse
What is love for Juliet, wanting what is best for her
500
She hath, and in that sparing makes huge waste;
For beauty, staved with her severity,
Cuts beauty off from all posterity.
She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair,
To merit bliss y making me despair.
She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead that live to tell it now.
What is Romeo + analysis
500
Details of Friar Laurence's original plan
What is Juliet will take a sleeping potion and she will appear dead. Romeo will return from Mantua to take her away from everything.
500
Define Dramatic Irony
What is when the audience knows something the characters do not. Adds suspense to the play