Literary Devices
Characters
Who said this?
Scene Summary
What does it mean?
100
"Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day."
Word Connotation
100
Pretended to die
Juliet
100
"Alas, Alas! Help, help! My lady's dead."
Nurse
100
Juliet's potion's length.
42 hours
100
Slugabed
sleepyhead
200
"O day! O day! O day! O hateful day!"
Repetition
200
First to find Juliet "dead"
Nurse
200
"Come is the bride ready to go to church?"
Friar Laurence
200
The day they are to be married on.
Wednesday
200
Aqua vitae
an alcoholic drink
300
"I'll re you, I'll fa you, do you note me?"
Pun
300
Mourned over Juliet's death saying she was his soul.
Capulet
300
"Musicians, oh musicians, " Heart's ease, heart's ease." Oh, an you will have me live play "Heart's ease"
Peter
300
Lady Capulet's hopes for the wedding date.
Thursday
300
Beguilded
tricked
400
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
Simile
400
Rejected peter's request to play the song.
First Musician
400
"Have I thought long to see this morning's face, and doth it give me such a sight as this?"
Paris
400
Friar Laurence tells the family to...
Dress Juliet in her finest clothes and bring her to the Capulet family tomb.
400
Gleek
Jarring speech
500
"Our instruments to melancholy bells, our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, our bridal flowers serve for our burial course."
Juxtaposition
500
Capulet's son-in-law according to him.
Death
500
"Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain! Most detestable death, by thee beguiled, By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown! O love, O life! Not life, but love in death"
Paris
500
Summarize the scene.
the joyous preparations suddenly change into plans for a funeral when the Nurse discovers Juliet on her bed, apparently dead. Lord and Lady Capulet, Paris, and the Nurse are overcome with grief. Friar Laurence tries to comfort them and instructs them to bring Juliet's body to the Capulet family tomb. the scene abruptly switches to humor, in a foolish conversation between the servant peter and the musicians hired to play at the wedding.
500
the meaning of county.
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