| Tybalt | Act 3 scene 1: Who approaches Benvolio and Mercutio to ask about Romeo’s whereabouts? |
| To fight | Act 3 scene 1: What does Tybalt want with Romeo? |
| Romeo; Mercutio gets stabbed in the heart under Romeo’s arm | Act 3 scene 1: Who tries to stop the fight? What happens from this intervention? |
| “A plague on both your houses” | Act 3 scene 1: What curse does Mercutio call out before he dies? |
| He kills Tybalt | Act 3 scene 1: What does Romeo do after he is told of Mercutio’s death? |
| The Prince; and Romeo is banished from Verona. If he is found in Verona he is to be killed on the spot | Act 3 scene 1: Who punishes Romeo and what is his fate? |
| Because enough blood and tears have been shed on that day and Benvolio’s account puts the blame on both houses. | Act 3 scene 1: Why does the Prince have mercy upon Romeo? |
| Her bedroom. The Nurse to return with word of Romeo (he is supposed to come into her bedroom that night) | Act 3 scene 2: Where is Juliet and what is she waiting for? |
| Tybalts death and Romeo’s banishment | Act 3 scene 2: When the Nurse arrives what does she inform Juliet of? |
| Juliet thinks Romeo is dead | Act 3 scene 2: At the beginning of this scene what is the dramatic irony? (When the Nurse says there was a death and a banishment) |
| Since Romeo is banished she thinks he cannot come to her room anymore | Act 3 scene 2: Why does Juliet ask the Nurse to pull up the ladder at this time? (after hearing of Romeo’s banishment) |
| Got to Romeo and give him her ring as a sign that she still loves him | Act 3 scene 2: What orders does Juliet give to the Nurse? |
| Friar Lawrence’s cell | Act 3 scene 3: Where is Romeo (after he kills Tybalt) |
| Disaster follows Romeo and he is bound to it | Act 3 scene 3: What does the Friar mean by, “Thous art wedded to calamity” ? |
| He is in despair. He feels that death would be better than being banished because he cannot live without Juliet | Act 3 scene 3: What is Romeo’s reaction to being banished? |
| He is angered because he feels that Romeo should be happy that mercy was given to him and he can still keep his life | Act 3 scene 3: What is the Friar’s reaction to Romeo when he says that death is better than banishment? |
| The Nurse | Who shows up in the Friars cell |
| They are both crying | Act 3 scene 3: According to the Nurse what are both Romeo and Juliet doing at the moment? |
| He picks up the dagger and implies that he will kill himself | Act 3 scene 3: What does Romeo try to do as he wails over his situation? |
| She gives him Juliet’s wedding ring. This signifies that she still loves and wants to be with Romeo | Act 3 scene 3: As Romeo is in despair (and after he tries to kill himself) what does the Nurse give Romeo and what is its significance? |
| He feels relieve that Juliet still wants to be with him | Act 3 scene 3: How does Romeo react to Juliet’s message from the Nurse? |
| Go console Juliet. Escape to Mantua, and wait for more news on a plan | Act 3 scene 3: What plan does the Friar propose to Romeo? |
| His marriage to Juliet | Act 3 scene 4: What is Paris discussing with Capulet and Lady Capulet? |
| Yes, for it might ease Tybalt’s passing | Act 3 scene 3: Does Capulet agree? (to let Paris have Juliet’s hand in marriage) |
| He will insist she does | Act 3 scene 4: Does Lord Capulet think Juliet will agree? |
| Romeo and Juliet are sleeping together upstairs while Paris and the Capulet’s are discussing Juliets marriage downstairs | Act 3 scene 4: What is the dramatic irony in this scene? (when Paris and the Capulet’s are discussing Juliet’s marriage) |
| They are in Juliet’s bedroom and if the bird outside is a lark or a nightingale ( lark-morning; Nightingale-night) | Act 3 scene 5: Where are Romeo and Juliet and what are they discussing when the scene begins? |
| She doesn’t want Romeo to leave | Act 3 scene 5: Why does Juliet insist that the bird outside is a nightingale,when it is actually near daybreak? |
| That Juliet’s mother is coming to her room | Act 3 scene 5: As the Nurse enters, what news does she bring? |
| That she will hire a man in Mantua to poison Romeo while he is there | Act 3 scene 5: What does Lady Capulet tell Juliet about revenge for Tybalts death? |
| That she’d rather marry Romeo, who her mother hates, than marry Paris | Act 3 scene 5: What is Juliet’s response to her mother saying that she is to be married to Paris? |
| No and she tells her that she’s washed her hands of the matter (meaning she wants nor has anything to do with this matter) | Act 3 scene 5: Does Lady Capulet sympathize with Juliet? What does she tell Juliet? |
| To marry Paris because he’s a better catch and since Romeo is banished he’s as good as dead | Act 3 scene 5: What is the Nurse’s advice to Juliet? |
| He thinks she’s ungrateful | Act 3 scene 5: Why does Lord Capulet believe that Juliet refuses to marry Paris |
| She will be disowned and left on the streets to die | Act 3 scene 5: What will be Juliet’s punishment if she does not marry Paris |
| Friar Lawrence’s cell and to ask for advice | Act 3 scene 5: Where is Juliet going at the end of act 3 and why? (after hearing Nurse’s advice) |
| confession | Act 3 scene 5: Where does Juliet tell everyone she is going? |
| A soliloquy is a speech a character gives of his thoughts and reflections. | Soliloquy |
| Words spoken by a character on stage that are meant to be heard by the audience but not by the other characters on stage | Aside |
| Dramatic irony is when an audience watching a play understands what’s going on in a situation while the characters are unaware of what is happening | Dramatic Irony |
| The turning point of the plot; where the course of the plot changes after an intense/important moment | Climax |
| A contradictory statement – “Beautiful tyrant” and “fiend angelical” and “sweet sorrow” | Oxymoron |
| Unrhymed verse – usually iambic pentameter | Blank Verse |
| A play on words – usually using words with double meanings | Pun |
| Two lines of verse in the same meter with end rhyme | Couplet |
| A 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter made up of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet with the rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg | Shakespearean Sonnet |
| A series of five pairs of syllables with an unstressed and stressed syllable (u/ u/ u/ u/ u/) | Iambic Pentameter |
| Benvolio | Who says:Romeo, away, be gone!The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain.Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee to death,If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away! |
| Lady Capulet | Who says:He is a kinsman and a Montague;Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,And all those could kill but one life.I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live. |
| Juliet | Who says:O, I have bought the mansion of a love,but not possessed it, and, though I am sold,Not yet enjoyed. |
| Romeo | Who says:Hence-banished is banished from the world,And world’s exile is death: then banished,Is death mistermed: calling death banishment,Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe,And smilest upon that stroke that murders me. |
| Friar Laurence | Who says:Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art:Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denoteThe unreasonable fury of a beast:Unseemly woman in a seeming man!Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! |
| Capulet | Who says:Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!I tell thee what: get thee to church o’Thursday,Or never after look me in the face:Speak not, reply not, do not answer me;My fingers itch. |
| Juliet | Who says:Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!Despised substance of divinest show!Just opposite of what thou justly seem’st,A damned saint, an honourable villain! |
| Mercutio | Who says:A plague o’ both your houses! ‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, arogue, a villain, that fights by the book ofarithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? Iwas hurt under your arm. |
| Juliet | Who says:What storm is this that blows so contrary?Is Romeo slaughter’d, and is Tybalt dead?My dear-loved cousin, and my dearer lord?Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general doom!For who is living, if those two are gone? |
Act III – Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
November 29, 2019