| How old is Romeo? | 15-17 |
| What does Romeo’s name mean? | pilgrim to Rome |
| impetuous | acting or done quickly and without thought or care |
| What is Romeo’s tragic flaw? | impetuous |
| What do they suffer and die for? | romantic love |
| introvert | a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person |
| fatalistic | believes that fate – the stars – control his life |
| What is Benvolio’s name meaning? | good-will |
| Who was Benvolio’s uncle? | Lord Montague |
| How is Benvolio related to Romeo? | he is his friend |
| What is Benvolio’s role in the play? | peacemaker; though he is ineffective |
| Who is the antagonist? | Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet |
| Who is the villain of the story? | Tybalt |
| aloof | not friendly |
| pragmatic | dealing with things responsibally |
| How old is Juliet? | 13 |
| What is Tybalt’s nickname? | “Prince of Cats” |
| How is Tybalt related to Juliet? | he is her cousin |
| unconditional | not subject to any conditions |
| cynical | distrustful of human sincerity or integrity |
| Who does the Nurse live with? | the Capulets |
| Who is Prince Escalus? | ruler of Verona, Italy ; role in the story is peacemaker |
| Who is Mercutio named after? | the god Mercury |
| What kind of god is Mercury? | the messanger god |
| As Mercutio’s name implies, he is…? | a messanger |
| extrovert | an outgoing, overtly expressive women |
| Who is Mercutio related to? | The Prince |
| How is he related to Romeo? | he is his friend |
| Who is Count Paris? | a young nobleman, a relative of the Prince |
| What is his role in the story? | he is Juliet’s suitor; he has her parents blessing to marry her |
| Who is Friar Laurence a foil to? | Nurse |
| Who is Friar Laurence? | Franciscan priest, lives in a cell (simple room) that is connected to the church |
| Who is he a confidante to? | Romeo |
| What is his viewpoint on marriage? | sees it as a way to end the feud |
| What is his role in the story? | peacemaker |
| What does Benvolio tell Mercutio that Tybalt has sent to Romeo’s father’s house? | a letter |
| What does Mercutio realize the letter is? | a challenge to a duel |
| Why does Mercutio think that Romeo is psychologically unfit to fight Tybalt? | he is too beaten up by love for Rosaline (dramatic irony) |
| Who are Romeo and Juliet’s two accomplices? | Nurse and the Friar |
| What time does Juliet send Nurse to find Romeo? | 9 |
| What time is it now? | 12 |
| How many hours have passed? | 3 |
| How many times does Juliet ask the Nurse what Romeo says? | 6 |
| What does Act II end with? | the marriage of Romeo and Juliet |
| How does Shakespeare convey the temperature? | “The day is hot, the Capulets abroad” |
| How does the temperature affect everyone’s mood? | “For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring” |
| What kind of irony is Mercutio using when he suggests that Benvolio likes to quarrel? | verbal |
| Why is the irony? | In Act 1, Benvolio tries to keep the peace between the servants |
| “Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts having no other reason but because thou has hazel eyes.” “Thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain sleep in the sun.” Mercutio is jokingly talking about Benvolio, but what character does this really apply to? | Tybalt |
| Why? | his temper |
| Tybalt arrives looking for Romeo. Romeo arrives soon after. What was Romeo doing? | marrying Juliet |
| Tybalt insults Romeo: “thou are a villain.” Romeo says: “I see thou knowest me not.” Why is this an example of a double entendre? | Tybalt thinks Romeo is saying you don’t understand me; Romeo means: Tybalt doesn’t know they are related by marriage |
| Why is Tybalt able to stab Mercutio fatally? | Romeo is standing in between them |
| What is Mercutio’s curse? | “a plague on both your houses” |
| Why does he curse both houses? | both houses caused the feud |
| Mercutio says about his wound: “No, tis not so deep as an well nor so wide as a church-door; but “tis enough, twill serve.” The wound will serve to do what? | kill him |
| What is Mercutio’s pun in “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man”? | Grave=burying place for the deadGrave=serious |
| What is the climax of the story? | Romeo kills Tybalt |
| If Romeo had done nothing – not avenged Mercutio’s death – then what would law have done? | Tybalt would have been executed |
| But because Romeo kills Tybalt, what happens? | the law applies to him |
| What does Romeo blame his predicament on? | fate |
| What is the Prince’s punishment? | exile |
| Why doesn’t the Prince execute Romeo? | Mercutio is his nephew; 2 people have already died |
| Is Juliet’s long speech on page 796 a monologue or soliloquy? | soliloquy |
| “Hood my unmanned blood bating in my cheeks, With thy black mantle.” What does mantle mean? | a cloak |
| For Romeo and Juliet, what is the night protection against? | daytime; the feud; the law; arranged marriage |
| What kind of imagery does Juliet use to describe Romeo? | light |
| “Give me my Romeo and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little starsAnd he will make the heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” What does this foreshadow? | their suicides |
| “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!” This is a metaphor; what does Juliet mean? | Romeo’s heart is a serpent; Romeo’s face is a flower |
| What oxymorons does Juliet use? | “Fiend angelical!” “Dove-feathered raven!” “Wolvish-ravening lamb!” |
| What logical argument does Juliet devise that provides her some comfort? | if Romeo hadn’t killed Tybalt, Tybalt would’ve killed Romeo |
| “Romeo is banished – to speak that word/Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet all slain, all dead.” Is an example of what…? | hyperbole |
| To Romeo, banishment is the same as…? | death |
| Why? | he sees it as him being banished from the world and separated from Juliet |
| Romeo mentions to Friar Laurence two ways to die: “Hadst thou no poison mix’d, no sharp-ground knife/No sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean,” What does this foreshadow? | the exact manner in which Romeo and Juliet will die |
| What are the three reasons Friar tells Romeo that he is lucky? | “Thy Juliet is alive” “Tybalt would kill thee” “The law that threatened death becomes thy friend” |
| What is the Friar’s plan? | 1. Ascend her chamber hence and comfort her2. Go the Mantua and live there |
| What day of the week does Lord Capulet promise Paris that he can marry Juliet? | Thursday |
| “Night’s candles are burnt out” What is being compared to night’s candles? | stars |
| The following dominate in the daytime: a. Feud b. Lawc. Juliet’s parentsHow do they serve to separate Romeo and Juliet? | a. FEUD: families hate each other b. LAW: Romeo has been banished c. JULIET’S PARENTS: want her to marry Paris |
| Juliet says, “Indeed I never shall be satisfied With Romeo till I behold him – dead -Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.” This is a double entendre. a. What does Lady Capulet hear?b. What does Juliet really mean? | a. she wants Romeo deadb. her heart is dead without him |
| What does Juliet ask her mother to do? | delay the marriage |
| What is her mother’s answer? | she refuses |
| What are the six things Juliet lists she would rather do than marry Paris? | O bid me leap rather than marry ParisOr walk in thevish waysOr bid me lurk with serpents Chain me with roaring bearsHide me nightly in a charnel-houseHide me with a dead man in his shroud |
| What is the Friar’s eight-step plan to get Romeo and Juliet together? | 1. Juliet should give consent to marry Paris2. Juliet should make sure to lie in bed alone3. Juliet must drink the vial4. Juliet will continue in a state of “borrowed likeness of shrunk death” for “2 and 40” hours5. Paris and her parents will find Juliet and think she is dead6. Juliet will not be put in a coffin; she will be placed in a vault 7. Friar will let Romeo know what’s going on by sending him a letter8. Romeo and Friar will watch her wake and then they will go to Mantua |
| Why does Lord Capulet change the wedding date? | to go to church |
| Why? | he fears God/the Friar |
| How will change of date affect Friar’s plan? | the letter given to Romeo |
| As Juliet is about to drink the vial, she delivers a long speech called a…? | monologue |
| What is one scenario Juliet does not think of? | Romeo will kill himself |
| As the Capulets hastily prepare for Juliet’s wedding, it is dramatic irony because the audience knows…? | Juliet is already married and has no intention of marrying Paris |
| What does Lord Capulet compare death to? | frost |
| What does he compare Juliet to? | a flower |
| Romeo (in Mantua) wakes up, and remembers a dream he has had: “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead…And breathed such life with kisses in my lipsThat I revived and was an emperor.” How does Juliet revive Romeo in Romeo’s dream? | by kissing him |
| This dream is irony of situation. Why? | 1. Instead of Juliet finding Romeo dead, Romeo will find Juliet dead.2. Instead of Juliet restoring life to Romeo with a kiss, Romeo will kill himself |
| Who tells Romeo that Juliet is dead? | Balthasar |
| Who does Romeo buy the poison from? | a beggar |
| How much does Romeo pay for the poison? | forty ducats |
| What oxymoron does Friar use to describe Juliet? | living corpse |
| What is Paris doing at the Capulet tomb? | mourning her death |
| What is he strewing about the tomb? | flowers |
| Paris says about Romeo “And here is come to do some villainous shame/To the dead bodies.” Paris thinks Romeo has come to the tomb in order to…? | insult Juliet and the Capulet family |
| Paris says to Romeo, “Stop thy unhallowed toil, vile Montague! Can vengeance be pursued further than death?” Paris thinks that Romeo’s motive is…? | vengeance |
| What are earlier examples of Romeo’s peers that think Romeo has low motives? | 1. Tybalt thinks Romeo attends the Capulet ball in order to make fun of it 2. Mercutio thinks that Romeo refuses to fight because he is scared |
| Romeo says, “A grave? O, no a lanthorn…” In what way is the vault that contains Juliet similar to a lantern? | contains “light” (Juliet) |
| Romeo says about Juliet: “Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” What is death compared to? What is Juliet compared to? | death is compared to a beeJuliet is compared to a flower |
| Romeo says about Juliet:”Beauty’s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeksAnd death’s pale flag is not advanced there.” What does Romeo notice about Juliet? | she is still beautiful and her lips and cheeks are still red |
| What does Romeo do when he drinks the poison? | toasts Juliet |
| What is this a parallel to? | when Juliet drinks the potion, she toasts Romeo |
| What causes Friar Laurence to say to Juliet, “I dare no longer stay”? | he hears a noise |
| How does Juliet commit suicide? | with a dagger |
| Scourge | punishment (usually a whipping) |
| Prince Escalus says, “And I, for winking at your discords too Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.” What relatives has Prince lost for ignoring feud? | Paris and Mercutio |
| Enmity | hatred |
| What are the closing lines of the play? | “For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo” |
Romeo and Juliet
August 2, 2019