Characters (Part 1)
This character kills Mercutio.
Who is Tybalt?
Identify the speaker of this quote.
"I could not send it,—here it is again,—
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,"
Who is Friar John?
The two lines at the end of a sonnet.
Identify the reason why Juliet had plans to go to confession at the end of the balcony scene.
What is this is her plan to meet up with Romeo?
Romeo is now related to Tybalt through his marriage to Juliet, so this is something that Romeo does not want to do.
What is "fight Tybalt"?
These characters are worried about where Romeo went after the Capulet party.
Who are Benvolio & Mercutio?
Identify the speaker of this line.
"And for that offence / Immediately we do exile him hence."
Who is the Prince?
This is the meter of a sonnet.
What is iambic pentameter?
He is hesitant at first about the marriage, but he agrees to it when he thinks about how it could bring the feuding families together.
What is Friar Lawrence’s reaction when Romeo asks him to officiate his and Juliet’s wedding?
Identify what is missing in the blank.
“Hold. Get you gone. Be strong and prosperous/ In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed/ To _________ with my letters to thy lord” (4.1)
What is Mantua?
This is Romeo's "man", the character who tells Romeo that Juliet has died. He also goes with Romeo to visit Juliet in the tomb.
Who is Balthasar?
Identify the speaker of this quote.
"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; / Grief of my son's exile hath stopp'd her breath."
Who is Lord Montague?
This is the term for when a character speaks their own internal thoughts out loud to themselves
What is a soliloquy?
This is the meaning of the following quote:
“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie/And young affection gapes to be his heir”?
What is Romeo’s desire for Rosaline has died and been replaced by his desire for Juliet.
Identify what Romeo is really cursing in this quote.
“Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!”
What is fate?
Identify the speaker of the quote:
"I think it best you married with the County (Paris)"
What is Nurse?
Identify the speaker of this quote.
"And that we have wrought / So worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?"
Who is Lord Capulet?
Identify the key term to describe this quote:
"my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, closed in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death”
What is foreshadowing?
This quote from the Act 1 Prologue represents an important theme in the play.
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.”
What is fate vs. free will?
This is the person Lady Capulet is talking about in this line.
Lady Capulet: “Most miserable hour that e’er time saw./ In lasting labour of his pilgrimage!” (4.5).
Who is Juliet?
Identify the speaker of this quote.
"For this alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households' rancor to pure love."
Who is Friar Lawrence?
Identify the speaker of this quote:
"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen."
Who is Lady Capulet?
The key term that best represents this quote: "Capulet plans Juliet’s wedding to Paris as Juliet is eagerly awaiting her husband Romeo in her bedroom."
What is dramatic irony?
Give the steps of the plan that Romeo and Juliet have to get married.
What is Romeo will send word to Juliet about when and where they will marry after he talks to Friar Lawrence.
True or False: This was a concern of Juliet's before she drank the potion from Friar Lawrence.
She is sad that she did not tell the nurse of her plan to fake her death.
What is false?