| Tybalt talks of his dislike for Montagues and Benvolio. | “What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word,/As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward.” Tybalt |
| Prince states that another disruption will result in their death. | “If ever you disturb our streets again,/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” Prince |
| There have been three fights before, started by a shallow remark. | “Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground,/ And hear the sentence of your moved prince./Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,” Prince |
| Benvolio tells Romeo to go to the ball and compare Rosaline with the other women there. | “Go thither, and with unattainted eye/ Compare her face with some that I shall show/ And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” Benvolio |
| Romeo does not think he will see anyone more beautiful than Rosaline at the ball, but he says he will come to enjoy himself. | “I’ll go along no such sight to be shown,/ But to rejoice in splendour of mine own.” Romeo |
| Romeo is unsure about attending because he had a dream that warned him. | “With this night’s revels and expire the term/Of a despised life clos’d in my breast/By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” Romeo |
| Romeo falls in love with Juliet immediately, love at first sight | “The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,/ And touching hers, make blessed my rude hand./ Did my heart love till now? forswear it sight!/ For i ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Romeo |
| Tybalt complains about Romeo’s presence. | “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe:/A villain that is hither come in spite,/To scorn at our solemnity this night.” Tybalt |
| Juliet discovers that Romeo is a Montague. | “My only love sprung from my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!” Juliet |
| Juliet wishes for them to change their names to be together and is unaware of Romeo’s presence. | “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 |
| Juliet wants Romeo to arrange for them to be married the next day. | “If that thy bent of love be honourable,/Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow,” Juliet |
| Friar Lawrence states that young men do not experience true love. | “Young men’s love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Friar Lawrence |
| Friar Lawrence implies that Romeo is not strong so their love will not last. | “Women may fall, when there’s no strength in men.” Friar Lawrence |
| Friar Lawrence makes a statement that applies to Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. | “Wisely and slowly, they stumble that run fast” Friar Lawrence |
| Friar Lawrence states how their wishes for their love may have a violent end | “These violent delights have violent ends,” Friar Lawrence |
| Friar Lawrence tells them to not rush into their relationship | “Therefore love moderately, long love doth so;” Friar Lawrence |
| aside | characer turns away from stage and speaks thoughts to audience |
| soliloquy | character is alone on stage and speaks thoughts aloud to audience |
| act | major divison in a play, there are 5 acts in a play and they are broken down into scenes |
| blank verse | lines of iambic pentameter that are unrhymed |
| rhyming couplet | 2 lines of rhyming poetry in succession |
| irony | meaning intended is not literal meaning of words, opposite meaning is taken |
| dramatic irony | lines having significant meaning to audience but speaker is unaware of significance |
| mood | emotion of a scene evoking in reader |
| pun | play on words that are similar in sound but different in meaning and the use of words with two incongruous meanings |
| dramatic relief (comic relief) | gives audience emotional rest by changing tone in comic way |
| allusion | figure of speech that makes a reference to, or a representation of, people, places, events, literary work, myths, or works of art |
| personification | when human characteristics are given to inanimate objects |
| metaphors | a direct comparison between two objects without using like or as |
| simile | figure of speech that directly compares two things through some connective word |
| Shakespeare makes many references to what in the play? | Allignment of stars, biblical references, mythology, etc. |
| Romeo is upset because he has killed Tybalt and ruined his future with Juliet. (climax) | “O, I am fortune’s fool.” Romeo |
| Act 1 Scene 1 | -figthing between two houses-prince intervenes-romeo’s parents worry-benvolio is told of romeo’s love for rosaline |
| Act 1 Scene 2 | -paris wants to marry juliet-capulet plans a ball-servant runs into romeo and benvolio |
| Act 1 Scene 3 | -lady capulet tells juliet and nurse about paris |
| Act 1 Scene 4 | -benvolio and mercutio persuade romeo to go to the ball |
| Act 1 Scene 5 | -romeo and juliet fall in love-tybalt tries to create fight-juliet finds out romeo is a montague |
| Act 2 Scene 1 | -romeo hides when his friends joke about rosaline |
| Act 2 Scene 2 | -they arrange for nurse to be go-between |
| Act 2 Scene 3 | -friar lawrence is persuaded to marry romeo and juliet |
| Act 2 Scene 4 | -benvolio and mercutio discuss tybalt’s challenge-juliet’s nurse comes |
| Act 2 scene 5 | -nurse tell’s julieet about romeo’s marriage arrangements |
| Act 2 Scene 6 | -marriage |
| Act 3 Scene 1 | -fight ends in tybalt and mercutio’s death-romeo is banished from verona |
Romeo and Juliet-Quotes and Terms Act 1 and 2
July 11, 2019