| Who begins fighting with Benvolio when he tries to stop the fighting among the servants? | Tybalt |
| Why does Benvolio urge Romeo to attend the Capulet Feast? | To forget Rosaline |
| Why does Lady Capulet think that Paris is an especially good match for Juliet? | He’s handsome and rich |
| Without announcing their arrival in a speech, who decides to attend the feast? | Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio |
| How does Tybalt recognize Romeo? | By his voice |
| A line of blank verse normally contains _____ syllables | 10 |
| In blank verse, ____ ____ syllable is stressed | Every other |
| Lines of blank verse ___ ___ rhyme. | Do not |
| The pattern of syllables and stresses in blank verse is known as _____ _____ | iambic pentameter |
| Shakespeare would depart from blank verse from time to time to imitate the rhythms of real or ____ speech. | everyday |
| When Romeo says to Juliet “have not saints lips and holy palmers too?”, what is he hinting at? | he wants to kiss her |
| When Mercutio calls dreams “…children of an idle brain,” what is he telling Romeo? | Keep your brain active |
| By describing him what image does Lady Capulet use to encourage Juliet to look fondly on Paris? | A book |
| The imagery used by Mercutio suggests that he is what kind of person? | Solid and practical |
| The imagery used by the Nurse suggests that she has what kind of nature? | Down to Earth, hippy, life affirming |
| What is Juliet, as she stands at her window, lamenting about and why? | Romeo’s family name |
| In the scene outside Juliet’s window, Romeo says that since it is night what does he fear? | Juliet is just a dream |
| Romeo first tells Friar Lawrence about meeting and falling in love with Juliet, the Friar teases Romeo about what? | Forgetting Rosaline too quickly |
| After he learns that Tybalt has challenged Romeo to a duel, what does Mercutio tease Tybalt about? | His manner of fencing |
| Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet? | end the feud between the two families |
| A dramatic foil is a character who ____ with another character. | Contrasts |
| Using a dramatic foil is a way of highlighting a character’s ____ | Traits |
| Benvolio can be viewed as a straightforward, sincere, and rather subdued foil for his quick-witted and ever-lively friend _____ | Mercutio |
| The cautious attitude of _____ contrast with Romeo’s impetuous desire to be married. | Friar Lawrence |
| Though old, this foil to Juliet is quite capable of verbal play and teasing. This character is the ____ | Nurse |
| “Now old desire doth his deathbed lie, and young affection grapes to be his heir” | Desire, deathbed |
| “If love be blind. Love cannot hit the mark” | love |
| “it is the East and Juliet is the sun!” | not personified |
| “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp” | Cheek |
| “swits and spurs, swits ad spurs; or I’ll cry a match” | Not personified |
| What happens when Romeo interferes in the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio? | Tybalt stabs Mercutio |
| what does Juliet think when the Nurse first brings news of Tybalt’s death? | Romeo is dead |
| Romeo is comforted when the Nurse brings him a ring from whom? | Juliet |
| Why do the Capulet’s postpone Juliet’s wedding to Paris until Thursday? | It is too close to Tybalt’s death |
| At the end of Act III What kind of advice does the Nurse give Juliet? | Marry Paris |
| A speech in which a character stands alone on a stage and speaks directly to the audience is called a ___ | soliloquy |
| An ___ is a brief remark to the audience outside the hearing of other characters | aside |
| A ____ is addressed to other characters | monologue |
| Benvolio’s speech to the Prince explaining the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt is an example of a _____ | Monologue |
| A soliloquy reveals a character”s thoughts or ___ | emotions |
| What was the tone of Romeo’s speech to Friar Lawrence after he is sentenced to banishment? | He is full of despair and self-pity |
| What was the tone of Juliet’s speech as she awaits evening and her reunion with Romeo | Impatient and full of joy |
| What is the tone of Juliet’s monologue following the news of Tybalt’s death | Confused, defensive and then caring |
| What is the mood of Friar Lawrence’s when he speaks to Romeo? | Disturbed, then forgiving and encouraging |
| What is the tone of Benvolio’s describing to the Prince the events | Forceful and then honest and sincere |
| An allusion may refer to something from ___ | History |
| Juliet alludes to Phoebes Appollos, the _____ _____ in classical mythology | sun god |
| Romeo refers to _____, the mood goddess | Cynthia |
| An _____ or a ____ of mythology can be helpful in understanding allusions | encyclopedia, dictionary |
| An allusion draws on ___ images, or feelings associated with the reference | ideas |
| How will Juliet end her dilemma? | By killing herself |
| Because of whose advice does Capulet think that Juliet has become obedient to him? | Advice of Friar Lawrence |
| Juliet fears what i she awakes in the burial vault before Romeo arrives? | She is going to go mad |
| What does Friar say to console the Capulets and Juliet’s “death”? | Juliet is in heaven |
| Dramatic irony is a device where by a character’s words or ____ mean one thing to the character but something else to the audience or reader. | actions |
| Dramatic irony can make the ____ want to step into the play and help the characters understand the situation. | audience |
| An effect of dramatic irony is that it adds ____ or tension. | suspense |
| An example of dramatic irony occurs in Act IV when ____ is speaking with Paris in Friar Lawrence’s cell. | Juliet |
| Another example is when the Capulet’s prepare for Juliet’s marriage to Paris, but it is actually a ____ | funeral |
| “Rather than marry Paris…bed me go into a new made grave and hide me with a dead man in his shroud” | Prepare’s reader for all the terrible things that are going to happen |
| “Hold, daughter, i do spy a kind of hope, which craves as desperate an execution as that is desperate which would prevent” | Juliet’s actual entombment |
| “I pray thee leave me to myself tonight: For I have need of many orisons to move the heavens to smile upon my state” | Juliet drinking the poison |
| In scene iv, Juliet describes all the terrible things that might happen if she wakes before Romeo arrives to rescue her from the tomb. | all the terrible things |
| “She’s not well married that lives married long but she’s best married that dies married young” | Romeo and Juliet dying young |
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet study guide
August 3, 2019