Fatal Plot Points
Who Spake Thus?
Literary Labels
Vocab of Verona
Big Ideas & Themes
100

The specific age of Juliet at the start of the play

13

100

What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word/ As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.

Angry Tybalt

100

Death lies on her like an untimely frost/ Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

SIMILE

100

What is "augmenting"? 

"tears augmenting the fresh morning's dew."

adding to

100

A key idea of the play stating that this "begets, or brings about" more of itself...

Violence leads to more violence and destruction

200

The city to which Romeo is exiled after the death of Tybalt

Mantua

200

If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed.

Juliet

200

Romeo's description of the Capulet tomb as a "hungry churchyard" that he will "strew with limbs"

Personification 

200

Juliet says she has "need of many" of these before she takes her potion (Act 4, Scene 3) 

Orisons - prayers

200

It is suggested that in life and love, this "policy" is always best (something the Friar often advises)

Moderation

300

42 hrs... (references what?)

The exact length of time Juliet will appear dead after taking the potion

300

_______encourages ________ to attend the __________ ball to _______________

Benvolio; Romeo; Capulet's; See other girls

300

Juliet's early remark that her grave may be her wedding bed serves as __________________

Foreshadowing

300

In the context of the Apothecary selling drugs, this word means to "give out or sell" (Act 5, Scene 1)

Utters- dispense

300

What does "disobedience to recognized authority" inevitably bring?

Consequences!

400

Friar John was unable to deliver the crucial letter to Romeo because...

He was delayed due to the city being quarantined

400

Death is my sonlin-law, death is my heir;/ My daughter he hath wedded.

Lord Capulet

400

Lady Capulet uses this device during her speech, "...[he's] a precious book of love that only lacks a cover"

Metaphor

400

What word does Juliet use in Act 5, Scene 3 that likely means 'perhaps' in modern English? 

"______ some posion yet doth hang..."

Haply

400

Shakespeare's work remains important and relevant because it offers great insight into __________________

Human nature, which was and continues to be relevant regardless of time/era

500

Who is it? Cause of death: broken heart due to __________

Lady Montague due to Romeo being exiled

500
Who is the FOIL character to Lady Capulet and why?

Nurse; provides comical contrast/relief to Lady Capulet, especialy during her formal speech about Paris

500

This non-poetic form of speech is used by the servant in Act 1 to indicate his common background

Prose

500

In Act 1, scene 2, what is the context in which Paris uses "honorable reckoning"?

He's referring to both fueding households coming from a position of good standing or reputation

500
Throughout the play, there are side comments about Arthur Brooke's "The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet". Since many of the details are similar, one could hypthesize that Shakespeare _____________

Plagarized! (But really, his play was an adaptation of Brooke's poem)