| brave and noble | gallant |
| noisy fight | fray |
| to officially order someone to leave a country or region as a punishment | banishment |
| an even that causes serious damage, or causes a lot of people to suffer | calamity |
| to praise someone or something formally or publicly | commend |
| great skill in using your hands or your mind | dexterity |
| to defeat someone or something | prevail |
| to make someone accept a situation even though they do not like it; to solve an argument; to forgive someone | reconcile |
| shocking and morally bad; evil | vile |
| to dislike something very much, usually because you think it is immoral; to hate with a passion | abhor |
| military | martial |
| able to move quickly and easily | agile |
| a period of time in which you live or work away from home or the place that you prefer | exile |
| What does Benvolio mean by this? “The day is hot, the Capels are abroad, And, if we meet, we shall not ‘scape a brawl.” | The heat may drive the Capulets and Montagues into a quarrel |
| Who says this? “Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy; and as soon moved to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.” Remember that here he is saying that Benvolio likes to fight (which isn’t true) | Mercutio |
| Who says this? “…Why, thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his bread than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes… etc.” | Mercutio |
| What is important about what Mercutio says here? “And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow” | Mercutio brings up the fighting here |
| What is this? “Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels? And thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but discords” | pun |
| Who says this? ” We talk here in the public haunt of men. Either withdraw unto some private place, Or reason coldly of your grievances. Or else depart, Here all eyes gaze on us.” | Benvolio |
| Who says this? “Romeo, the love i bear thee can afford no better term than this: thou art a villain.” | Tybalt |
| Who says this? “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not. | Romeo |
| Who says this? “I do protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; And so, good Capulet, which name I tender As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.” | Romeo |
| What is Romeo telling them here? “Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath Forbid this bandying in Verona streets. Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio! | stop fighting |
| What Mercutio doing here? “I am hurt. A plague a both houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing? | a curse on the houses |
| What is this? MERCUTIO: “Aye, aye, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, ’tis enough. Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.” | litote |
| What is this? “No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door” | litote |
| What is this? “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man” (2 things) | foreshadowing and pun |
| What is Romeo saying here? “O sweet Juliet, Thy beauty hath made me effeminate And in my temper soft’ned valor’s steel!” | he blames Juliet |
| What is this? “This day’s black fate on moe days doth depend; This but begins the woe others must end.” | foreshadowing |
| What is this? “…for Mercutio’s soul Is but a little way above our heads” | death imagery |
| What is this? LADY CAPULET: “Prince, as thou art true, For blood of ours shed blood of Montague. O cousin, cousin!” | dramatic irony (she is blaming Romeo) |
| Who says this? ” He is a kinsman to the Montague. Affection makes him false, he speaks not true. Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, And all those twenty could but kill one life. I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.” | Lady Capulet |
| What is this? “Let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he is found, that hour is his last.” | near rhyme |
| What is this? “Come, civil night, Thou sober-suited matron all in black, and learn me how to lose a winning match” | personification |
| What is this? “Give me my Romeo; and when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun” | death imagery |
| What is this? ” O, I have bought the mansion of a love, But not possessed it; and though I am sold, Not yet enjoyed.” | metaphor |
| What is this? “Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but “Ay,” And that bare vowel “I” shall poison more Than the death darting eye of cockatrice, I am not I, if there be such a “Ay”, or those eyes’ shot that makes thee answer “ay”, if he be slain, say “ay”; or if not, “no” | pun |
| What is this? “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?” | metaphor |
| What are these? “Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st- A damned saint, an honorable villain!” | oxymorons |
| What is this? “Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!” | metaphor |
| What is this? “There is no end, no limit, measure bound, in that word’s death; no words can that woe sound” | death imagery |
| What is Juliet saying she is planning to do here? “Come, cords; come, nurse, I’ll to my wedding bed; And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!” | kill herself |
| Who says this? “Be patient, for the world is broad and wide” | Friar Lawrence |
| Who says this? “There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banished from the world, And world’s exile is death.” | Romeo |
| Why does Romeo say he is worse off than the dogs, cats, and flies? | Because they can be with Juliet |
| What is this? “But Romeo may not, he is banished. Flies may do this but I from this must fly.” | pun |
| What is this? “Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, no sudden mean of death, though ne’er so mean, But “banished” to kill me- “banished”? (2 things) | pun and forshadowing |
| What is Romeo saying to Friar Lawrence here? ” Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel. Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love…” | He doesn’t understand love because he is a priest |
| What is this? ” Death’s the end of all” | foreshadowing |
| What is this talking about? “Murdered her kinsman, O, tell me, friar, tell me, in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion.” | suicide |
| What is the Friar saying here? “Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast.” | grow up |
| What is the Friar saying here? “Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady that in thy life lives, By doing damned hate upon thyself?” | Romeo will be the cause of 3 deaths if he kills himself |
| What are these reasons for? “Thy Juliet is alive, for whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead, there art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee, but thou slewest Tybalt. There are thou happy. The law, that threat’ned death, becomes thy friend and turns it into exile. There art thou happy.” | reasons Romeo shouldn’t kill himself |
| What is the friar saying here? “Either be gone before the watch be set, or by the break of day disguised from hence, sojourn in Mantua. I’ll find out your man, and he shall signify from time to time.” | be out of the house by sunset |
| What is this? “Sir, Paris, I will make a desperate tender of my child’s love, I think she will be ruled in all respects by me; nay more, i doubt it not.” | dramatic irony |
| Will Paris and Juliet have a large or small wedding? | small |
| What is this? “Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops” (2 things) | metaphor and personification |
| What is this? “Let me ta’en, let me be put to death, I am content, so thou wilt have it so.” (2 things) | dramatic irony |
| What is this? “Come death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so. How is’t, my soul? Let’s talk, it is not day.” | death imagery |
| Who is the “life” in this situation? “JULIET: then, window, let day in, and let life out.” | Romeo |
| What is this? O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.” (2 things) | foreshadowing and inverted ending |
| What is this? “LADY CAPULET: evermore weeping for your cousin’s death? What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live. Therefore have done. Some grief shows much of love’ But much of grief shows still some want of wit. JULIET: Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.” | dramatic irony |
| What is this? “Indeed I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him-dead-is my poor heart so for a kinsman” | verbal irony |
| In an extended metaphor, Capulet compares Juliet to a ____. | boat |
| What is Lady Capulet saying here? “I would the fool were married to her grave!” | she wishes Juliet were dead |
| What are these? “Day, night; hour, tide, time; work, play; Alone, in company; still my care hath been to have her matched” | oxymorons |
| What does Juliet mean here? “Or if you do not, make the bridal bed in that dim monument where Tybalt lies” | she will kill herself |
| Who is the nurse describing here? “An eagle, madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye as he hath.” | Paris |
| What is this? “Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much” | verbal irony |
| an understatement, opposite of hyperbole | litote |
Romeo and Juliet- Act 3
July 9, 2019