Literary Device
Identify the speaker and device. "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man"
Pun - Mercutio upon his death
Identify the speaker and device: "Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."
Juliet, foreshadowing - as she says goodbye to Romeo after their wedding night.
Identify the speaker and circumstance: "These times of woe afford no times to woo."
Paris to the Capulet parents - asking (again) to marry Juliet.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "Tis torture, and not mercy/Heaven is here/Where Juliet lives [...]"
Romeo to Friar Lawrence, upset about his banishment.
What is Romeo's biggest issue with banishment?
He will have to be away from Juliet. He'd rather die.
Identify the speaker and device: "Towards Phoebus’ lodging; such a waggoner/As Phaëton would whip you to the west, [...]"
Juliet, mythological allusion
Identify the speaker and device: "And all those twenty could but kill one life./I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give:/Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live."
Lady Capulet - Rhyming Couplet
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance "O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!/Most lamentable day, most woeful day."
Nurse, to the Capulets, upon the discovery of Juliet's body.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink/ How nice the quarrel was, and urg’d withal/ Your high displeasure [...]"
Benvolio to the Prince, retelling the deadly fight that led to Mercutio and Tybalt's deaths.
Why did Mercutio insist on fighting Tybalt?
He felt that Romeo was being a coward by refusing the duel.
Identify the speaker and device: "Romeo, away, be gone!/The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain."
Benvolio to Romeo - irony; no one expected Romeo would beat Tybalt in a duel.
Identify the speaker and device: "Come, civil Night/Thou sober-suited matron all in black/And learn me how to lose a winning match"
Juliet, dramatic irony - she doesn't know about Romeo's banishment
Personification (half points - teacher discretion)
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "Both you and I, for Romeo is exil’d/ He made you for a highway to my bed/ But I, a maid, die maiden-widowed
Juliet to Nurse, talking about the rope ladder he asked them to use so he can climb into Juliet's bedroom.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "[...] already know thy grief,/It strains me past the compass of my wits./I hear thou must, and nothing may prorogue it [...]"
Friar Lawrence to Juliet, discussing her impending marriage to Paris
What was Friar Lawrence's plan for Juliet to get out of marrying Paris?
Go home, agree to marry Paris, fake her death, run away with Romeo (who'll get a message that the death is fake).
Identify the speaker and device: "When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew/But for the sunset of my brother’s son/It rains downright.
Lord Capulet - Pathetic fallacy or metaphor
Identify the speaker and device: "Indeed I never shall be satisfied/With Romeo, till I behold him—dead—Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vex’d."
Juliet, tragic irony - as she speaks to her mother about her "hatred" for Romeo after his murder of Tybalt.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: Is it more sin to wish me thus forsworn/Or to dispraise my lord with that same tongue/Which she hath prais’d him with above compare/So many thousand times?
Juliet to herself, speaking about the nurse's "betrayal" in telling Juliet to marry Paris.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance:"[...] To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church/ Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."
Capulet to Juliet upon her refusal to marry Paris.
1. It won't work and she'll have to marry Paris
2. It's real poison - Friar's trying to kill her
3. She'll wake up early and suffocate in the tomb
4. She'll go mad because of the ghosts and kill herself
Identify the speaker and device: "All things that we ordained festival/Turn from their office to black funeral:/Our instruments to melancholy bells"
Lord Capulet, oxymoron - opposite or contradictory ideas; the happy preparations for a wedding are now used for a funeral.
Identify the speaker and device: "Sleep for a week, for the next night I warrant/The County Paris hath set up his rest/That you shall rest but little."
Nurse, bawdy humour - as she tries to wake up Juliet on the day of the wedding.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "Thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun."
Mercutio to Benvolio - sarcastically commenting on Benvolio's worry that a fight will break out - Benvolio is a peacemaker.
Identify the speaker, spoken to, and circumstance: "Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not."
Romeo to Tybalt. Refusing to accept the challenge to a duel. (Tybalt is now an in-law since R married J).
Explain (using proof) how Lord Capulet's personality "flipped" from Act 1 to Acts 3 and 4.
Act 1 - Juliet can choose who to marry, she's too young anyway, she is his only living child, a blessing.
Act 3 - She is disobedient, no choice but to marry Paris or he'll throw her out.
Act 4 - He is happy again after she apologizes and agrees to marry Paris. Excited to plan a party.