Act 1
Who was Romeo in love with at the start of the play?
Rosaline
How does Friar Lawrence first react when Romeo tells him it is Juliet who he loves and wants to marry?
Yesterday you were in love with Rosaline. Not love, Romeo loves with his eyes, not his heart.
Who challenges Tybalt to a fight after Romeo refuses?
Mercutio
What advice does the Nurse give Juliet after Capulet threatens to disown her? (Technically the every end of Act 3)
I think you are happy in this second match, / For it excels your first, or, if it did not, / Your first is dead, or 'twere as good as he were / As living here and you no use of him.
Who tells Rome that Juliet is dead?
Balthazar
What advise does Benvolio give Romeo?
Forget about Rosaline and flirt with other beautiful women.
Provide three reasons why Paris is considered the ideal match for Juliet.
Wealthy, title, good-looking
Provide two reasons why Tybalt wants to fight Romeo.
Crashed Lord Capulet's party - insulting his honor
Flirting with Juliet - innocent cousin
Provide 3 details of Friar Lawrence's plan.
Answers may vary.
Who did Friar Lawrence send to deliver the message to Romeo? Who or what prevented him from giving Romeo the message?
Friar John. He was quarantined due to visiting a friend who was in a house with a deadly pestilence.
What phrase does the chorus use to describe Romeo and Juliet and their ill-fated destiny?
Star-crossed lovers
Mother-figure or confidant to Juliet
Go-between or messenger for Romeo and Juliet.
Provide three details that describe the complexity of Juliet's internal conflict.
Father wants her to marry Paris(Duty); Paris is perfect on paper; Capulet threatens to disown her if she doesn't marry Paris; Romeo is a Montague and will never be accepted; Romeo killed Tybalt; Romeo is exiled;
Provide 3 concerns or fears Juliet reveals in her soliloquy before drinking the potion.
Friar trying to kill her, wake up among the dead and go crazy; suffocate to death
Other than Romeo and Juliet, identify 3 characters who died in the play and state who killed them.
Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Lady Montague
Explain the meaning of the following quote and who said it:
My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Juliet
Identify the speaker of the following quote and explain its importance to the play.
For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.
Friar
Identify the speaker and the significance of the quote.
This gentlemen, the Prince’s near ally, / My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt / In my behalf – my reputation stained / With Tybalt’s slander – Tybalt, that an hour / Hath been my cousin. O sweet Juliet, / Thy beauty hath made me effeminate / And in my temper soft’ned valor’s steel!
Romeo
Identify the speaker of the quote and state its significance in the play. To have her matched. And having now provided A gentleman of noble parentage, Of fairness, youthful, and nobly ligned, Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts, Proportioned as one’s thought would wish a man– And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortune’s tender
Capulet
Identify the speaker of the quote and the theme that is addressed.
A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents. Come, come away. / Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead, / And Paris, too
Friar - Fate
The following quote is an example of what literary element?
I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin this fearful date… By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
Foreshadowing
A huge exaggeration is called...
Identify a character who uses these and paraphrase an example.
Hyperbole
Romeo
What is it called when the audience knows something the characters on stage don't know?
Provide two examples from the play.
Dramatic irony
Define allusion and give an example from the play.
A reference to a person, place, event, or previous work of literature.
Explain the difference between a traditional soliloquy and breaking the fourth wall.
When a character is alone on stage and reveals his thoughts or feelings to the audience.
When a character speaks directly to the audience or camera and recognizes that he or she is an actor playing a part.