Figurative Language
I have bought the mansion of a love but not possessed it.
Metaphor
left Juliet alone in the tomb because watchmen were approaching.
Who is Friar Laurence?
Thy drugs are quick, thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo
Who says -
Never a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
(It's the last line of the play.)
Who is the Prince?
Mantua.
O happy dagger.
Personification
. . . is the person who announces that his wife died from 'heartsickness'.
Who is Lord Montague?
A cup closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see hath been his timeless end. Drunk all and left no friendly drop to help me after?
Juliet
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them to make me die with a restorative.
Who is Juliet?
To a nunnery for safety. (The town will be shocked by the recent deaths of Paris and Romeo.)
Poor living corpse.
Oxymoron
. . .is unable to deliver the letter to Romeo due to being quarantined.
Friar John
If thou be merciful, open the tomb and lay me with Juliet.
Paris.
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence of full light.
Who is Romeo?
What town and country is the setting of the story?
Verona, Italy
Who is the morsel? Who is 'more food'
Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorg'd with the dearest morsel of the earth. Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.
Romeo says this as he's breaking into the Capulet vault. The morsel is Juliet; more food is Paris.
. . . Balthasar is responsible for delivering this person's letter to Lord Montague.
Romeo
How is the letter important to the plot of the story? Ask McMillan if you're unsure.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet' And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife. I married them; and their stol'n marriage day was Tybalt's doomsday . . .
Friar Laurence
Miscarried by my fault, let my old life be sacrificed some hour before his time unto the rigor of severest law.
Who is Friar Laurence?
Who provides the poison for Romeo?
From the Apothecary (pharmacist) in Mantua.
What two devices are used -
That unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred monster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?
Personification - Death is a person who chose Juliet as a lover
Metaphor - Death is being compared to a monster. . . . . . and I suppose Juliet is being compared to a paramour (lover)
. . .sprinkles flowers at front of the Capulet tomb before dying.
Who is Paris?
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath.
I have bought the mansion of love but not possessed it.
Who is Juliet?
Which minor character is responsible for reporting all the disturbances at the cemetery?
The Page of Paris went to get help upon Romeo's arrival to the cemetery.