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What is Romeo's fatal flaw?
That he falls in love too easily, he likes the thought of being in love.
Why couldn't friar John deliver the letter to Romeo in time?
He got sick and had to be quarantined
In the phrase “seeking out Romeo that did spit his body” what does the word spit mean?
Impale
What does it mean to be star-crossed lovers?
Your love can never be realized/is forbidden by fate
Who said “O I am a fortune's fool!”
Romeo
Who is Romeo's close friend who dies at the hand of Tybalt
Mercutio
At Capulet's party, Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo when he saw him. However Capulet stayed his hand. Why did Capulet stop tybalt?
To stop a mutiny among the guests
What is a rapier?
A sword
What does Romeo and Juliet draw a relationship between love and death?
Romeo and Juliet’s love was the thing that led them to their death
Who said "My life was better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love"
Romeo
Who is the person who wants Juliet to be happy all the time, who is essentially Juliet's mother?
The Nurse
Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and juliet?
He sees an opportunity for peace between the Montagues and Capulets
What are weeds in the phrase “in tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows”?
Clothes
How is it suggested in the prologue of the play that it was Romeo and Juliet’s fate to die
By calling Romeo and Juliet star-crossed lovers
Who said “Can heaven be so envious”
Juliet
Who died in shock at the death of the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet?
Lady Montague
Why did Friar Lawrence create a plot to fake Juliet's death?
So she could run away with Romeo and no one would look for her.
“In death darting eye of a cockatrice” what is a cocatrice
Two legged dragon with a roosters head. it can turn you turn you by looking at you
Why do Romeo and Juliet feel comforted in the dark of night
They knew it was safer to meet at night because people might see them in broad daylight.
What famous quote did Juliet say about names in the balcony scene?
“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”
Who is the prince and why does he have more authority than the two noble families?
Because he's in control, the families are powerful but the prince has the final say
When Romeo and Juliet lay together in bed, they disagreed on which bird was singing outside. what two birds were they debating between?- nightingale and lark
Nightingale and Lark
In Shakespeare's work there are often accents and shortened words where they would not usually be, why?
Because in order to make things rhyme he changed the pronunciation and certain syllables so it would flow better.
The vicious cycle of violence and hate continues through the generations of each family. How does Romeo and Juliets love break that cycle.
The parents saw that their feud between families had cost their children their lives
Let my old life be sacrificed some hour before his unto the rigor of the severest law
Friar Lawrence.