Lit Devices
Juliet confessing her love for Romeo while she thinks she's alone on her balcony is an example of...
Dramatic Irony
These two characters are connected to Romeo & Juliet because they knew their love for each other, and tried to help Romeo and Juliet in their own ways.
Friar Laurence & Nurse
"O, I am fortune's fool!" (III.i.145)
"I'm an idiot"
"Fortune/Fate has caused me to mess up"
Who says: "But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." (II.ii)
Romeo
What character is an example of comic relief in the play?
Nurse OR Mercutio
"I will withdraw; but this this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall." (I.v.100-101)
Couplet OR iambic pentameter
This character is known a a peace-keeper and is connected to Romeo by friendship and blood.
Benvolio
"Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
Talk to me tomorrow and you will find me buried in a grave because I am dying.
Other possible Answers:
Joking about his own death
"A plague o'both your houses!"
Mercutio
A short remark to the audience that others on stage don't hear is a(n)...
Aside
"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you..." (I.iv.58-100)
Monologue
These two characters are dramatic foils to Romeo: by temperament and because their actions directly lead to Romeo's and Juliet's deaths.
Mercutio and Tybalt
"There is thy gold---worse poison to men's souls..." (V.i.85)
Take this money- it's worse than poison.
OR
Money is corrupting
"Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,/This letter was not nice, but full of charge,/of dear import,/and the neglecting it/May do much danger..."(V.ii)
Friar Laurence
What color were people (besides royalty) not allowed to wear in Elizabethan England?
Purple
"O brawling love! O loving hate!" is an example of:
Oxymoron
This character died because of her son's external conflict (and murder) with Tybalt.
Lady Montague
"Or if thou thinkst I am too quickly won,/I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay..." (II.ii.104-105)
If you think I'm being too easily won over, I'll play hard-to-get.
"Pardon, I beseech you!/Henceforward I am ever ruled by you." (IV.ii)
Juliet
Who is Ms. Litin's favorite R+J character?
Mercutio
"These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which, as they kiss, consume." (II.vi.9-11) (NOT a simile)
analogy
These two characters are related to the prince & died because of their connection to him and the Capulet/Montague Feud.
Mercutio & Paris
"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;/My daughter he hath wedded..." (IV.v.46-47)
Death has taken my daughter away before you could marry her.
Who said: "Go thither, and with unattainted eye/Compare her face with some that I shall show,/And I will make thee think they swan a crow." (I.i)
Benvolio
Name one other play Shakespeare Wrote
Hamlet
King Lear
The Tempest
Julius Caesar
Much Ado About Nothing
Othello
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Richard III
The Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Macbeth
etc....