Tybalt | Juliet’s cousin |
Friar John | was quarantined in a sick house and couldn’t deliver a message to Romeo |
Mercutio | put a curse on both houses as he was dying |
Paris | asks permission of Juliet’s father to marry her |
Friar Lawrence | makes potions out of herbs he collects |
apothecary | sells poison because he is poor |
Lord Montague | Romeo’s father |
Lady Montague | dies from grief over Romeo’s banishment |
Lord Capulet | wants Juliet to wait 2 years before marrying |
Rosaline | girl Romeo loves at the beginning of the play |
Benvolio | Romeo’s cousin and the play’s peacemaker |
Lord Capulet | character who is a good host |
Nurse | the character who usually acts as messenger between Romeo and Juliet |
Tybalt | character who kills Mercutio |
Paris | character who scatters flowers at Juliet’s grave |
Prince Escalus | ruler of Verona |
Friar Lawrence | receives “confessions” of the two lovers |
Juliet | apologizes to parents for disobedience |
Mercutio | dies by Tybalt’s sword |
Paris | seeks parental consent to marry |
Romeo | dies from drinking poison |
Balthazar | brings wrong message to Romeo |
Juliet | dies by dagger |
He is upset and wants to fight him | How does Tybalt react when he sees Romeo at the Capulet party? |
Mercutio | Which character ridicules the Nurse when she comes to deliver Juliet’s message to Romeo? |
Romeo | Who places Paris’s body near Juliet’s? |
Friar Lawrence | Who runs away from the Capulet monument in fear? |
Nurse | Who finds Juliet’s “dead” body in her bed chamber? |
Tybalt-mean, fighter, against Romeo. Makes him the true antagonist | Who might be considered the villain in the play? |
Romeo | Who kisses Juliet at the Capulet’s party? |
Rosaline | Who do Romeo’s friends think he might be with after the Capulet party? |
banishment | What punishment does the Prince set for Romeo after the second street fight? |
Verona | In what city does MOST of the play take place? |
Mantua | To what city does Romeo go near the end of the play? |
Tybalt | Whom does Mercutio call the King of Cats? |
It wont workIt’s poisonShe’ll suffocate in the tombShe’ll go mad waiting for Romeo in the tomb | What fears does Juliet experience before taking the potion? |
Friar Lawrence | Who gathers herbs and knows what to do with them? |
1564 | year of Shakespeare’s birth |
1616 | year of Shakespeare’s death |
The Bard | Shakespeare’s nickname |
Stratford-on-Avon | In what city was Shakespeare born? |
The Globe | What was the name of Shakespeare’s theater? |
72 percent | What percentage of Shakespeare’s plays are written in poetic form? |
*72 percent in poetic form*Language has changed so much from his time*Sentence structure was manipulated to fit the rhyme and meter of his poetry | Name a reason his plays are difficult to read |
Anne Hathaway | Name of Shakespeare’s wife |
Personification (the sun and the moon as ladies that are envious of each other) | “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…” |
soliloquy | Juliet’s speech just before she drinks the poison |
Assonance (rhyming EE sound in grief, brief, thee) | “It were a grief so brief to part with thee” |
foreshadowing | “These violent delights have violent ends” |
personification (death eating)alliteration (repetition of D sound) | “then love devouring death do what he dare” |
alliteration (repetition of C sound) | “He’s the courageous captain of compliments” |
Foil (they are opposite characters – peacemaker vs. fighter) | Benvolio and Tybalt in the same scene |
exposition | Act I |
rising action | Act II |
turning point/climax | Act III |
falling action | Act IV |
resolution (also known as denouement) | Act V |
dramatic irony | When Juliet is talking about Romeo and he is below the balcony but she doesn’t know it |
pun (soles of shoes vs. sad inner soul) | “You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead…” |
personification | “Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir” |
allusion (Aurora – goddess) | “Should in the farthest East begin to draw the shady curtains from Aurora’s bed” |
rhyming couplet | “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and unknown too late” |
allusion (Venus – goddess of love) | “Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word” |
Mercutio | “Oh, then I see that Queen Mab hath been with you…” |
Juliet | “You kiss by the book…” |
Romeo | “He jests at scars that never felt a wound” |
Nurse | “There’s no faith, no trust, no honesty in men…” |
Romeo | “Then, I defy you stars!” |
Friar Lawrence | “Women may fall when there’s no strength in men…” |
Capulet | “I tell thee what, get thee to church o’Thursday or never after look at me in the face” |
Nurse | “Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell. There stays a husband to make you a wife” |
Mercutio | “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” |
Prince | “For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” |
Juliet | “My only love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown and known too late” |
Romeo | “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight, for I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” |
Benvolio | “Compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow” |
Tybalt | “This by his voice should be a Montague. Fetch me my rapier, boy…” |
Romeo | “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun” |
Juliet | “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” |
Capulet | “He bears him like a portly gentleman, and, to say truth, Verona brags of him to be a virtuous and well-governed youth.” |
Romeo and Juliet final test review
July 19, 2019