Characters
This person dies of grief over Romeo's exile.
Lady Montague.
The balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet takes place in Act
Early on in Act II.
What is the purpose of a prologue?
"O' that I were a glove upon that hand that I might touch that cheek.''
Act II. Romeo standing outside of Juliet's window, talking to himself about how beautiful she is and wanting to reach out and touch her.
What does star-crossed lovers mean?
A love affair that is doomed to end in tragedy, i.e. the stars are against them.
What city does Romeo flee to, after his exile?
Authority figure in Verona, exiles Romeo and takes charge of the scene at the crypt at the end of the play, calming onlookers.
The Prince.
The Capulet ball.
Act I
What is the difference between a monologue and a soliloquy?
A monologue is a long speech during a conversation by a single character to listeners, while a soliloquy is given alone, addressing only the audience, in order to demonstrate the character's inner thoughts.
'As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: / Have at thee, coward!'
Tybalt, in Act 1, challenging Benvolio and several Capulets to a sword duel after a quarrel breaks out between several Capulets and Montagues which Benvolio tries to calm.
What is Friar Lawrence's plan to save Juliet from marrying Paris?
Give her a sleeping potion that will put her to sleep for 42 hours and then escape with Romeo.
Why does the Prince exile Romeo instead of executing him?
His crime was Tybalt's death, but Tybalt killed Mercutio first.
This character fails to deliver a letter after being quarantined en route.
Friar John.
Romeo and Juliet are married in this act.
Act II
What era did Shakespeare live during?
The Elizabethan era.
"O, bid me leap....
From off the battlements of any tower,
Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk
Where serpents are. Chain me with roaring bears..."
Act 4. Juliet is explaining to Friar Lawrence all of the things that she'd rather do than marry Paris.
What is the climax of the play?
What becomes of Benvolio? *Trick question*
The audience doesn't know
A peaceful and friendly figure who urges Romeo to attend the Capulet ball and tries to prevent a sword fight between the Capulets/Montagues.
Benvolio.
Juliet refuses to marry Paris and is cursed by her father.
The end of Act III
Generally speaking, around what time did Shakespeare live?
1564-1616
'On pain of torture, from those bloody hands / Throw your mistemper'd weapons to the ground'
The Prince, in Act I, demanding that the battling Montagues and Capulets throw down their weapons.
What is Juliet's reaction to learning of Tybalt's death at Romeo's hands and why does she change her mind?
She is angry and calls Romeo a villain, and then changes when the nurse agrees with her.
When Friar Lawrence asks Paris why he hasn't married Juliet yet, what is his excuse?
She is supposed grieving over Tybalt.
This person causes Romeo's depression at the beginning of the play.
Rosaline.
The climax of the play. Which act?
Act III
A rhythmic pattern with ten syllables/or five metrical feet per line with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.
Iambic pentameter.
"Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?"
Act 4. Juliet is alone, discussing hear fear of waking up early in the crypt and suffocating f if the sleeping potion doesn't work completely.
What does Romeo tell Balthasar so he will leave him at the crypt?
That he intends to take back Juliet's ring and only mourn her.
What do Lord Capulet and Lord Montague do at the end of Act V, after their children's deaths?
They pledge to put their disputes behind them and erect monuments in their children's honor.
A wretchedly poor figure that Romeo approaches after learning of Juliet's alleged death.
The apothecary.
Romeo & Juliet depart after an argument about birds and there is foreshadowing of death.
Act III
A poem with 14 lines, three quatrains of alternating rhyme scheme, and one couplet that rhymes, such as the PROLOGUE for the play or the Holy Palmers Kiss, written in iambic pentameter.
Shakespearean sonnet.
"True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air"
Act 1, Mercutio speaking to Romeo, dismissing one of Romeo's dreams as a product of a bored brain.
Haste. Too much haste when making decisions.
How old are Romeo and Juliet?
Romeo is 16 and Juliet is only 13
This person is hiding during Act V and witnesses the fatal duel between Paris and Romeo.
Balthasar.
Which act concludes with a group of musicians making jokes and arguing.
Act IV
A four-line stanza in a sonnet.
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
Act 4, Figurative language from Lord Capulet to his wife, to describe his daughter like a flower dying from a layer of killing frost come too early.
Romeo uses figurative language to describe Juliet during the balcony scene. What does he compare her to?
"What light through yonder window breaks?" Light and the sun.
What does Rome's figurative language compare Juliet to during the balcony scene and what kind of hope does Romeo compare Juliet to.
This character damns both houses.
Mercutio
What is a heroic couplet?
Two rhyming lines using iambic pentameter.
“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night / [Check’ring] the eastern clouds with streaks of light / And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels / From forth day’s path and Titan’s fier wheels…/ I must upfill this osier cage of ours / With baleful weeds and precious juiced flowers.”
Act II, Friar Lawrence is giving a soliloquy, using figurative language to describe the rising sun like a smiling toward the drunken, retreating darkness.
Why does Mercutio fight Tybalt?
Romeo refuses to accept Tybalt's challenge.
What is significant about Juliet standing atop a balcony while Romeo is down below during Act II? Try to give two reasons.
It symbolize the distance between them, because of their names and houses, and it symbolizes how she represents an angelic figure to Romeo.
Rosalin.