Key 1 & 2
Who or what is the Nurse speaking about here:
"I saw the wound, I saw it with mine eyes--
God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:
A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;
Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood,
All in gore blood: I swounded at the sight."
Tybalt or Tybalt's dead body
At the opening brawl, the Prince gets angry with the Capulets and Montagues for fighting how many times in the streets?
Three
Who first brings up the idea of marriage?
Juliet
Which character is off stage with Mercutio when he dies?
Benvolio
What sense is being engaged with this speech?
"Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I:
It is some meteor that the sun exhales,
To be to thee this night a torch bearer"
Sight
What is the subtext of this speech spoken by Juliet to her mother?
"Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him--dead--"
She wants to see Romeo, but she's covering that fact by saying she wants to see him dead.
Why is the Capulet servant the wrong man for the job of delivering the party invitations?
He can't read.
What does Juliet tell Romeo NOT to swear by?
The moon
At the end of Act III scene 2, Juliet gives an item for the Nurse to deliver to Romeo. What is the item?
A ring
Is this a simile or metaphor?
"O, tell me, Friar, tell me
In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion."
Metaphor
How many syllables are in this line of text?
"Villain and he be many miles asunder"
12
A fairy who gives people dreams.
At what time does Juliet promise to send someone to Romeo the next day to discuss their wedding?
9am
On what upcoming day does Capulet decide Juliet will marry Paris?
Thursday
What device is being used in this speech?
"Here's much to do with hate, but more with love:
Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O any thing, of nothing first create!"
Antithesis
Is this speech (spoken by the Prince) in verse or prose?
"Immediately we do exile him hence:
I have an interest in your hate's proceeding,
My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;"
Verse
The woods where Romeo is spotted walking early in the morning by Benvolio is made up of what kind of tree?
Sycamore
The Friar warns the marrying couple that loving so intensely can be troublesome. Specifically, he compares Romeo and Juliet’s love to two items. Name them.
Fire and gun powder
As dawn breaks, Juliet doesn’t want Romeo to leave her bedroom. She says the light outside isn’t the sun. What, does she say, is causing the light?
A meteor
Which device is this passage using?
BEN: Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.
MER: Without his roe, like a dried herring: O flesh, flesh how art thou fishified!
Pun
Is this speech (spoken by the Nurse) in verse or prose?
"I saw the wound, saw it with mine eyes--
God save the mark!--here on his manly breast:
A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse;
Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub'd in blood
All in gore blood: I swounded at the sight."
Verse
In Act I, who is Susan in relation to the Nurse?
The Nurse's infant daughter who died.
Name one of the physical ailments the Nurse complains about having after returning from the meeting with Romeo.
1. Headache
2. Out of breath
3. Aching bones
Romeo is upset that he’ll no longer be able to see Juliet, but this living creature will be able to see her, be near her, even feel her breath/steal a kiss. What is the living creature that Romeo envies?
Flies
What device is this using?
"Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay;
Romeo that spoke him fair, bid him bethink
How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal
Your high displeasure"
Alliteration
Antithesis is acceptable if it can be named