CHARACTERS
PLOT
THEMES
WHO SAID IT
MISC.
100

The ruler of Verona.

WHAT IS THE PRINCE?

100

LADY MONTAGUE DIES AFTER HEARING WHAT NEWS?

WHAT IS ROMEO'S BANISHMENT/EXILE?

100

O FORTUNE, O FORTUNE, ALL MEN CALL THEE FICKLE

WHAT IS FATE?

100

“What if it be a poison which the friar/ Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,/ Because he married me before to Romeo?....Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee”

WHAT IS JULET?

100

THE FAIR TOWN IN WHICH WE LAY OUR SCENE.

WHAT IS VERONA?

200

A mother figure to one of the main characters, with an affinity for telling long stories.

WHAT IS THE NURSE?

200

ROMEO IS SOLD A DEADLY POTION BY WHOM?

WHAT IS THE APOTHECARY?

200

TEMPT NOT A DESPERATE MAN

WHAT IS IMPULSIVITY?

200

“A Thursday let it be—a Thursday, tell her/ she shall be married to this noble earl./ Will you be ready? Do you like this haste?/ We’ll keep no great ado—a friend or two…therefore we’ll have half a dozen friends,/ And there an end. But what say you to Thursday?

WHAT IS LORD CAPULET?

200
THE AUTHOR'S HOMETOWN?

WHAT IS STRATFORD UPON THAMES?

300

A loyal servant who delivers tragic news from Verona to a title character.

WHAT IS BALTHAZAR?

300

HOW DO ROMEO AND JULIET MEET?

WHAT IS THE CAPULET PARTY?

300

"What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”

WHAT IS LOVE?

300

“Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo’s hand did slay./ Romeo, that spoke him fair, bid him bethink/ How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal….his agile arm beats down their fatal points/ And twixt them rues; underneath whose arm/ An envious thrust from Tybalt hit the life/ of stout Mercutio, and then Tybalt fled”

WHAT IS BENVOLIO?

300

THE TYPE OF METIRC LINE THAT USES 10 SYLLABLES PER LINE, ALTERNATING BETWEEN STRESSED AND UN-STRESSED SYLLABLES.

WHAT IS IMAMBIC PENTAMETER?

400

This character speeds up the timeline for their child’s marriage.

WHAT IS LORD CAPULET?

400

ROMEO'S "SAD BOY" HOURS ARE PROMPTED BY WHAT?

WHAT IS UNREQUITED LOVE FOR ROSALINE?

400

“What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death”

WHAT IS DEATH?

400

“Yet I am the greatest, able to do least/ Yet most suspected, as the time and place/ Doth make against me of this direful murder;/ And here I stand, both to impeach and purge/ Myself condemned and myself excused”

WHAT IS FRIAR L.?

400

THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE ROMEO AND JULIET AND OTHER DOOMED RELATIONSHIPS.

WHAT IS STAR-CROSSED LOVERS?

500

A character who represents peace?

WHAT BENVOLIO?

500

WHY IS ROMEO UNAWARE OF FRIAR L.'S PLAN?

WHAT IS THE LETTER IS NOT DELIVERED ON TIME?

500

“A plague on both your houses!”

WHAT IS HATE?

500

“O, I am fortune’s fool!”

WHAT IS ROMEO?

500

VIOLENT DELIGHTS HAVE WHAT?

WHAT IS VIOLENT ENDS?