The Plot
The location in which the play takes place
What is Verona?
Young, beautiful, naive, and innocent
Who is Juliet?
When Juliet says that Romeo looks like "one dead in the bottom of a tomb"
What is foreshadowing?
When the audience knows something that the characters do not
What is dramatic irony?
"But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"
The reason Romeo's friends push him to go to Capulet's party
What is finding other beautiful girls / getting over Rosaline's rejection?
Lustful, emotional, impulsive, and romantic
Who is Romeo?
"Damned saint" and "honorable villain"
What are oxymorons?
"Tybalt's body will be in there, freshly entombed, and his corpse will be rotting."
What is imagery?
"Younger than she are happy mothers made."
Who is Paris?
The Apothecary is reluctant to give Romeo what he wants for this reason.
What is selling poison is illegal?
Powerful, controlling, quick to anger, and demanding obedience
Who is Lord Capulet?
"I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain."
What is a metaphor?
“O, speak again, [...] for thou art / As glorious to this night, being o’er my head, / As is a wingèd messenger of heaven"
What is a simile?
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet."
Who is Juliet?
After Tybalt's death & Romeo's banishment, Lady Capulet tries to comfort a sobbing Juliet with this promise
What is she will send someone after Romeo to poison him?
Wise, caring, well-intentioned, and a guide
Who is Friar Lawrence?
"There is no world without Verona walls, / But purgatory, torture, hell itself."
What is hyperbole?
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon."
What is personification?
"Thou art a saucy boy."
Who is Lord Capulet?
The reason Mercutio faught Tybalt
What is Romeo didn't want to fight and Mercutio was upset about it?
Imaginative, comedic, and loyal
Who is Mercutio?
"I talk little of love, for Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
What is an allusion?
"All things that were ordained festival / Turn from their office to black funeral; / [...] Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast"
What is juxtaposition?
"The love I bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain."
Who is Tybalt?