Vocab
Quotes 1
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Characters
Wild Cards
100

When the audience knows more than the characters

Dramatic Irony

100

“A plague a’ both your houses!

They have made worms’ meat of me”

Mercutio

100

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet"

Juliet

100

Juliet’s cousin. Hot-head and is quick to anger. 

Tybalt

100

How do Romeo and Juliet die?

Romeo drinks poison, Juliet stabs herself 

200

A character that is present to bring out the characteristics of another character 

Foil Character

200

“If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”

Prince

200

But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?"

Romeo

200

Romeo turns to this person for advice. He marries Romeo and Juliet in hope to end the feud. 

Friar Laurence

200

Why is Romeo so depressed at the beginning of the play?

Rosaline does not love him

300

Character talks directly to the audience while the cast ‘doesn’t’ hear it 

Aside

300

“For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancor to pure love”


Friar Laurence

300

“Now, by the stock and honor of my kin, to strike him dead I hold not a sin” 

Tybalt

300

 Romeo’s best friend. Larger than life character.

Mercutio

300

What is the purpose of the prologue?

To give the audience a summary or a glimpse of what is going to happen in the play 

400

Rhymed iambic pentameter, used when something emotional or highly important is happening 

Rhyming verse

400

“There is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself”

Romeo

400

“Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.”

Benvolio

400

Romeo’s cousin. Wants to keep the peace between the families. 

Benvolio

400

At the beginning of Act II, Scene 2 Romeo is giving a long speech that reveals his emotions to the audience (no other characters can hear him). This is called a... 

Soliloquy 

500

Unrhymed iambic pentameter, used when nobles speak 

Blank verse

500

“There’s no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers"

Nurse

500

 "For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo,"

Prince

500

A young nobleman who wants to marry Juliet

Paris

500

Paraphrase the advice Friar Laurence gave to Romeo and Juliet before their wedding

This love is very rash and sudden. Now that you are married, take it slow and enjoy each other and the new marriage that you have.