ID the speaker
"Leave me, and do the thing I bid thee do.
Hast thou no letters to me from the friar?"
Romeo (Act 5)
Dramatic Irony
This character kills Mercutio
Tybalt
Seeking out ____, that did spit his body
Romeo
What does Juliet mean when she says this?
What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make die with a restorative.
She hopes that there's still leftover poison from his lips and kisses him so that she dies with him
"Peace, you mumbling fool!
Utter your gravity o'er a gossip's bowl;
For here we need it not."
Capulet (Act 3)
The main character
Protagonist
This character was Romeos first love
Rosaline
_____, I come! this do I drink to thee.
What does Friar Laurence Mean when he says this?
Go hence; good night; and here stands all your state:
Either be gone before the watch be set,
Or by the break of day disguised from hence:
Friar Laurence tells Romeo to leave immediately to avoid being caught and executed, or be disguised and leave from sunrise.
"My father Capulet will have it so;
And I am nothing slow to slack his haste."
Paris (Act 4)
Two-word opposite that is a truth
Oxymoron
These two characters agree with Capulet to marry Paris
Lady Capulet & Nurse
My ______, but not my will, consents.
poverty
What is Lord Capulet doing when he says this?,
"I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face:
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;
My fingers itch."
Sonion Mr Capulet slapping/threatening Juliet
"Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them."
Apothecary (Act 5)
Indirect reference
Allusion
This character told the band to keep playing
Peter
Unhappy ______! by my brotherhood,
fortune
What does Lord Capulet mean by this?
Despised, distressed, hated, martyr'd, kill'd!
Uncomfortable time, why camest thou now
To murder, murder our solemnity?
O child! O child! my soul, and not my child!
Dead art thou! Alack! my child is dead;
And with my child my joys are buried.
Shocked and distressed that he found Juliet dead.
"Unhappy fortune! by my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge."
The intentional use of speaking/writing strategies
Rhetoric
This character tells Romeo false information
Balthasar
Tybalt is ____, and Romeo __________;
Gone, Banished
What does Romeo mean when he says this?
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Romeo says greed causes more moral decay and murders, such as the feud destroying their lives, than illegal drugs.