Lit Terms
Fig Language
Characters
Forms
The Play
100
Setting of the play
What is VERONA
100
"Oh brawling love, O loving hate.." "Feather of lead, bright-smoke; cold fire, sick health" Are examples of ... Bonus: Who speaks these lines about love?
What is an OXYMORON Bonus: Romeo
100
Who tells the families to stop fighting or it will result in their deaths at the end of Scene I
Who is PRINCE (ESCALUS)
100

Shakespeare wrote a series of poems, which Romeo & Juliet also build together, the very first time they speak: 

Sonnet or Lovers Sonnet

100

Speeches made by various characters out loud, to themselves (they have NO intended audience) are .... 

soliloquies

200
The major conflict is between
What are Montagues v. Capulets
200
What type of imagery does Romeo use to describe Juliet
What is LIGHT imagery (she teaches the torches to burn brightly, a jewel, a dove among crows)
200
Compare Benevolio & Tybolt
Benevolio (Montague) - good/kind/peaceful (tries to stop duel between servants), Romeo's cousin Tybolt (Capulet) - angry/impatient/violent (threatens death to Capulets: Benevolio, then later Romeo at Capulet's party
200

When Tybalt's threat to Romeo is an example of ... 

"Patience perforce with willful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their difference greeting.
I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.”  (Lines 100-104)

What is Soliloquy that foreshadows what happens later in the play 

200
This funny/punny, wild, imaginative, and tragic clown figure talks of Queen Mab, and is friends with Romeo...
Who is Mercutio?
300

Two major characters that are opposite each other (foils) that fight after the servants fight in the opening scene: 

Benvolio & Tybalt 

300

"She hangs upon the cheek of night" is an example of .... 

personification

300
He says (to Paris) "too soon marred are those so early made" Bonus: What does this mean?
Who is Capulet .. This means that girls are scarred (changed) forever if married too young
300
Mercutio's long __________________ about Queen Mab is an FORM of speech with an intended audience..
What is a MONOLOGUE
300

What kinds of dreams does Queen Mab bring to people?

Examples from play/Mercutio's speech

Nightmares/dreams, etc

400

"I fear to early, for my mind misgives

some consequence hanging in the stars."" and 

"But he that has the steerage of my course

Direct my sail."  

Who says it? What does he mean? 

Romeo says that he fears that something bad will happen, and he is trusting FATE. 

Fate will guide him (like a ship trusting winds/stars to guide it) 

400
Contrast how Lady Capulet thinks of marriage and the Nurse thinks of marriage...
Lady Capulet: marriage is a business arrangement, comes with wealth, position, responsibility Nurse: a marriage is a happy relationship full of love and pleasure
500

Describe the behavior of Romeo & Juliet during their first meeting at the party.. (actions/words)

Romeo: compares himself to a pilgrim, Juliet to a saint, that love is a religion, wants to kiss her Juliet: answers back, holds hands, then is kissed by Romeo, then they kiss..Romeo is being impulsive/aggressive, whereas Juliet is reserved/cautious and interested in him but protective of herself/her reputation. 

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