Elements of Shakespeare
A speech delivered by a character alone on stage to allow people to know what the character is thinking or feeling.
Soliloquy
Capulet, quick to a fight, kills Mercutio
Tybalt
Romeo does this minutes before Juliet wakes in the tomb
Kills Paris and then drinks poison and dies.
"Wherefore art thou Romeo"
Juliet
Romeo is going to the capulet party.
Hoping to see Rosaline
The use of a word or phrase to suggest two or more meanings at the same time.
Pun
Says he will build a golden statue of Juliet
Montague
How Juliet dies
she stabs herself
"A plague a both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me"
Mercutio
Romeo hesitates to fight Tybalt in Act 3
Tybalt is Juliet's kinsman
A speech, usually long, made by one character to other characters on the stage.
Monologue
Brings news of Juliets death to Romeo
Balthasar
When the nurse brings news of Tybalt's death, Juliet believes that this character has been killed.
Romeo
"Then, since the case so stands as it now doth, I think it best you married with the County"
Nurse
The Friar agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet
He hopes it will stop their families' feud
A remark made by a character that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play.
Aside.
The Queen of Fairies, she controls dreams.
Queen Mab
How Romeo learns about the Capulet party.
A servant who cannot read asks him to read the message.
"So please you step aside, I'll know his grievance, or be much denied"
Benvolio to Montague
Juliet is scared to drink Friar Lawrence's potion
She is afraid of waking alone in the tomb.
Pairs of contradictory words.
Oxymoron
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
These two characters start the fight that prompts the Prince to decree a penalty of death for fighting.
Sampson and Gregory
Where Romeo hides after he kills Tybalt
Friar Lawrence's cell
"Uncle, this is a Montague, our Foe, a villain, that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night"
Tybalt
The Friar's plan with Juliet did not work
The Friar's letter was never delivered to Romeo