Characters
What's Being Said?
Quotes
Literary Devices
Misc.
100
Capulet wants Juliet to marry this character.
Who is Paris?
100
And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl,/For now, these hot days is the mad blood stirring
If we meet (the Capulets) we won't be able to escape a fight. These days are too hot and people are hot-headed/angry (Benvolio)
100
"I am fortune's fool!"
Who is Romeo?
100
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven, wolfish-ravening lamb!
Oxymoron
100
What is an aside?
When a character speaks to the audience in the presence of other characters.
200
This character advises Romeo to go to Mantua.
Friar Laurence
200
These times of woe afford no time to woo.
These times of pain are bad times for romance. (Paris)
200
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you should find me a grave man."
Mercutio
200
Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails or thou lookst pale.
Foreshadowing, imagery
200
What is a monologue?
A long speech made by one character in the presence of other characters.
300
This character tells the Prince the details of what happened in the fight that led to the deaths of Tybalt and Mercutio
Who is Benvolio?
300
There is no world without Verona walls But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Nothing exists except Purgatory, torture, Hell and Verona. (Romeo)
300
"My lord, I would that Thursday were tomorrow."
Paris
300
Come night. Come Romeo. Come thou day in night, For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Light and dark, imagery
300
What is a soliloquy?
A long speech made by a character that is not directed to other characters. It usually reveals inner thoughts and feelings.
400
This character changes their mind about a wedding date.
Capulet
400
Hold thy desperate hand. Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art. Thy tears are womanish.
Hold on and don't act out of desperation. Are you a man? Your body says that you are, but your tears are girly. (Friar)
400
"I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live."
Lady Capulet
400
A plague o'both your houses!
forshadowing
400
What is a likely turning point in this play?
The slaying of Tybalt at Romeo's hand.
500
Juliet feels betrayed by this character.
Who is the Nurse?
500
Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Are you going? It's still a long time until daybreak. It was a nightingale's call, not a lark's, that you heard in your ear. (Juliet)
500
"I'll not be forsworn."
Capulet
500
A gentler judgement vanished from his lips: not body's death, but body's banishment
alliteration
500
These birds are used to represent night and day (specify which is which).
What is the nightingale for night and the lark for day?
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