| How Juliet and Tybalt are related | cousins |
| Sampson and Gregory | servants for the Capulets |
| Abram and Balthasar | servants for the Montagues |
| How Prince Escalus and Mercutio are related | cousins |
| 3 types of Love | -unrequited love >Romeo & Rosaline-Real love >Romeo & Juliet-Ribald love >Mercutio & Nurse |
| Mercutio represents | renaissance |
| Romeo represents | Dark ages |
| Queen Mab speech | -men are ruled by whims of fairies/supernatural forces-dreams = fantasies of repressed-early = makes fun of people’s own follies-later = evil presence can harm innocent people |
| In text citation for verse play | list act, scene, and line #’s seperated by . (3.2.21-23) |
| Death chart | Capulet -Tybalt-JulietMontague-Romeo-Lady MontaguePrince -Mercutio-Paris-Deus es machina |
| Blank verse | – rhythm of 5 containing 1 unstressed & 1 stressed syllable (can be used w/ 2 characters)Ex Act 1 scene IV Romeo: I dreamed/a dream/tonightMercutio: and so/did IEx Act 1 Scene V Romeo: for I/never saw/true beau/ty |
| Act 1 scene IV Romeo: I dreamed/a dream/tonightMercutio: and so/did IAct 1 Scene V Romeo: for I/never saw/true beau/ty | Blank verse |
| Alliteration | – words that have same 1st consonant Ex Act III scene I Romeo: this day’s black fate on more days doth depend |
| Act III scene I Romeo: this day’s black fate on more days doth depend | Alliteration |
| External conflict | – struggle w/ character & outside forcesEx Act III scene IMercutio & Tybalt fight |
| Act III scene IMercutio & Tybalt fight | External conflict |
| Internal conflict | – struggle w/ thoughtsEx Act III scene IIJuliet’s dilemma over whether or not to love/hate Romeo for killing Tybalt |
| Act III scene IIJuliet’s dilemma over whether or not to love/hate Romeo for killing Tybalt | Internal conflict |
| Verbal Irony | – language to express opposite of whats expected Ex Act II scene VJuliet -> La. Cap: How my heart abbors/ to hear him named & cannot come to him./ To weak the love/ I bore my cousin/ upon his body that hath slaughtered him! |
| Act II scene VJuliet -> La. Cap: How my heart abbors/ to hear him named & cannot come to him./ To weak the love/ I bore my cousin/ upon his body that hath slaughtered him! | Verbal Irony |
| Cosmic irony/Irony of fate | -god changing human expectationsEx Act III scene I Romeo after slaying Tybalt: O, I am fortune’s fool |
| Act III scene I Romeo after slaying Tybalt: O, I am fortune’s fool | Cosmic irony/Irony of fate |
| Aubade | -day or night?Ex Act II scene VJuliet -> Romeo: wilt thou be gone? is it not yet year near day/ it was the nightingale, and not the lark |
| Act II scene VJuliet -> Romeo: wilt thou be gone? is it not yet year near day/ it was the nightingale, and not the lark | Aubade |
| Image | – words that paint a picture / use sensesEx Act III scene VJuliet -> Romeo: Methinks I see there, now thou art so low./ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb./ either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale |
| Act III scene VJuliet -> Romeo: Methinks I see there, now thou art so low./ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb./ either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale | Image |
| Climax | – peak tension at highestEx Act III scene IRomeo after killing Tybalt |
| Act III scene IRomeo after killing Tybalt | Climax |
| Anachronism | -anything out of time/doesn’t fit Ex Act III scene III Romeo -> Friar: As if that name./ shot from the deadly level of a gun./ did murder her |
| Act III scene III Romeo -> Friar: As if that name./ shot from the deadly level of a gun./ did murder her | Anachronism |
| Triadic Argument | Logos = Tybalt would’ve killed RomeoPathos = Will emotionally kill JulietEthos = Suicide leads to hell |
| Metaphor | -implied/hidden comparison w/ little in common Ex Act IV scene vLord Capulet -> La Capulet: upon the sweetest flower of all the field |
| Act IV scene vLord Capulet -> La Capulet: upon the sweetest flower of all the field | Metaphor |
| Paradox | -contrary to previous expectationsEx Act III scene II Juliet’s response to Romeo killimg Tybalt: O serpen heart, hid with a flowering face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?/ Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! |
| Act III scene II Juliet’s response to Romeo killimg Tybalt: O serpen heart, hid with a flowering face!/ Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?/ Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! | Paradox |
| Allusion | -reference to any person, place, or history Ex Act III, scene IIJuliet’s soliloquy: Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds./ Towards phoebus lodging! such a wagoner/ As phaeton would whip you to the west/ and bring in cloudy night immediately” |
| Act III, scene IIJuliet’s soliloquy: Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds./ Towards phoebus lodging! such a wagoner/ As phaeton would whip you to the west/ and bring in cloudy night immediately” | Allusion |
| Act IV scene v: Lord Capulet -> Paris & Friar: Death is my son in law, Death is my heir/ My daughter he hath wedded” | Personification |
| metonymy | -subsitution of name of attribute, w/ thing meantEx Act III scene IIIFriar: I see that madmen have no earsRomeo: How should they, when that wise men have no eyes |
| Act III scene IIIFriar: I see that madmen have no earsRomeo: How should they, when that wise men have no eyes | metonymy |
| Personification | -giving non-living things living attributesEx Act IV scene v: Lord Capulet -> Paris & Friar: Death is my son in law, Death is my heir/ My daughter he hath wedded” |
| Act III scene IIIFriar: I see that madmen have no earsRomeo: How should they, when that wise men have no eyes | metonymy |
| Apostrophe | -address to someone who is not presentEx Act III scene VJuliet after Romeo left her: O fortune, Fortune! all men call thee fickle! |
| sonnet | -poem of 14 linesEx Prologue |
| Act III scene VJuliet after Romeo left her: O fortune, Fortune! all men call thee fickle! | Apostrophe |
| antithesis | -2 opposite ides are combined to create a contrast effectEx Act I Scene I Romeo -> Rosaline: here’s much to do with Hate, but more to do with loveEx Act I Scene VJuliet about Romeo: My only love sprung from my only hate |
| Act I Scene I Romeo -> Rosaline: here’s much to do with Hate, but more to do with loveAct I Scene VJuliet about Romeo: My only love sprung from my only hate | antithesis |
| pun | – play on words for humourEx Act I scene IVRomeo -> Mercutio: You have dancing shoes with nimble soles: I have a soul of lead |
| Act I scene IVRomeo -> Mercutio: You have dancing shoes with nimble soles: I have a soul of lead | pun |
| couplet | -2 successive whyming lines in a verseEx Act I scene IBenvolio -> Romeo: But in that crystal scales let there be weighed / your lady’s love against some other maid |
| Act I scene IBenvolio -> Romeo: But in that crystal scales let there be weighed / your lady’s love against some other maid | couplet |
| quatrain | -4 lime stanzaEx Act I scene II Capulet’s speech -> Paris |
| Act I scene II Capulet’s speech -> Paris | quatrain |
| oxymoron | -adjective followed by noun w/ contrasting meaning |
| aside | -comment character says to audience, but not other characters |
| soliloquy | -reveal thought of a character through personal speech |
| lyric poetry | -emotional rhyming poem |
| simile | -comparison using like/asEx Act II Scene IIJuliet -> Romeo: I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, unadvised, too sudden; I too like lightning |
| Act II Scene IIJuliet -> Romeo: I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, unadvised, too sudden; I too like lightning | simile |
| hyperbole | – exaggeration for emphasisExAct II scene IIRomeo -> Juliet: Alacl, there lies more peril in thine eye/than twenty their swords |
| Act II scene IIRomeo -> Juliet: Alacl, there lies more peril in thine eye/than twenty their swords | hyperbole |
| internal rhyme | -rhyme w/ words in middle & end of one lineEx Act I Scene IIlord Capulet -> Paris: But saying over what I said before |
| Act I Scene IIlord Capulet -> Paris: But saying over what I said before | internal rhyme |
| monologue | -speaker addresses listener/speakerExAct I Scene IVMercutio queen mab speech |
| Act I Scene IVMercutio queen mab speech | monologue |
| dramatic irony | -the audience knows something the characters do notEx Act II scene I Mercutio and Benvolio are unaware that Romeo no longer loves Rosaline |
| Act II scene I Mercutio and Benvolio are unaware that Romeo no longer loves Rosaline | dramatic irony |
| assonance | -same vowel soundEx Act II scene IIJuliet -> Romeo: O gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nounce it faithfully |
| Act II scene IIJuliet -> Romeo: O gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nooiet -> Romeo: *O* gently R*o*me*o*, If th*o*u d*o*st l*o*ve pr*o*nounce it faithfully | assonance |
| When was Shakespeare born? | April 23, 1564 |
| Where was Shakespeare born? | Stratford-on-Avon, England (a market town) |
| Who was Shakespeare’s father? | John Shakespeare, a shopkeeper and former high baliff(mayor) |
| What was the extent of Shakespeare’s formal education? | grammar school where he learned Latin |
| How old was he when he married who and how many children did they have? | 18Anne Hathaway3 |
| Who were Shakespeare’s children? | Susannah, Judith, and Hamnet . Hamnet died at age 11.Judith and Hamnet are twins. |
| What was a nickname for the Globe Theater? | the wooden O |
| When were plays performed? | in the daytime |
| What are groundlings? | paid one penny to stand in front of the stage |
| Why was theater such universally popular entertainment? | affordable for all classes |
| Who was the acting not respectable by? | English Puritans |
| What was Romeo and Juliet based on? | a long narrative Italian poem called The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet |
| What does “star-crossed lovers” mean? | fate against them (people believed in the stars, astologyand destiny |
| What medium is Romeo and Juliet written in? | both poetry and prose(not poetry) |
| “Part, fools!/Put up your swords. You know not what you do.” | Benvolio |
| “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee./Have at thee, coward!” | Tybalt |
| “But Montague is bound as well as I,/In penalty alike and ’tis not hard, I think,/For men so old as we to keep the peace.” | Lord Capulet |
| “and ’tis not hard, I think,/For men so old as we to keep the peace.” | Benvolio |
| “O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you./She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes/In shape no bigger than an agate stone” | Mercutio |
| “My only love, sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” | Juliet |
| “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” | Romeo |
| “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name,Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” | Juliet |
| “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other word would smell as sweet” | Juliet |
| “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow/That I shall say good night till it be morrow” | Juliet |
| “Within the infant rind of this weak flower/Poison hath residence and medicine power In man as well as herbs – grace and rude will,/And where the worser is predominant,/Full soon the canker death eats up that plant” | Friar Lawrence |
| “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford/No better term than this: thou art a villian” | Tybalt |
| “No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as/a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.” | Mercutio |
| “but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for/me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” | Mercutio |
| “O, I am fortune’s fool!” | Romeo |
| “And for that offense/Immediately we do exile him hence” | Prince |
| “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!” | Juliet |
| “”Romeo is banished” – to speak that word/Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,/All slain, all dead” | Juliet |
| “‘Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here,/Where Juliet lives and every cat and dog/And little mouse, every unworthy thing,/Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not” | Romeo |
| “Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day” | Juliet |
| “Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, And therefore have I little talked of love, For Venus smiles not in a house of tears” | Paris |
| “Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?” | Juliet |
| “Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field” | Capulet |
| “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir” | Capulet |
| “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead/(Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!)And breathed such life with kisses in my lips/That I revived and was an emperor” | Capulet |
| “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead (Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!) And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor” | Romeo |
| “The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law The world affords no law to make thee rich Then be not poor, but break it and take this” | Romeo |
| “Sweet Flowers thy bridal bed I strew (O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones) Which with sweet water nightly I will dew; Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans. The obsequies that I for thee will keep Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.” | Paris |
| “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,Gorged 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 |
| “O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” | Romeo |
| “O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?” | Juliet |
| “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath there rust, and let me die.” | Juliet |
| “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate.That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.And I, for winking at your discords too,Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.” | Prince |
| O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. | Romeo |
MY Romeo and Juliet
October 9, 2019