Verona
Where the story mainly takes place
Paris
asks Lord Capulet to Marry Juliet
F. Law/Nurse.
knows about Romeo/Juliet's marriage and is like a mother figure to Juliet
The Nurse
Who tells Juliet that Romeo is a Montague?
Jewel
When Romeo first sees Juliet what does he compare her to
Pilgrims/Saints
When the two kiss for the first time what do they compare their lips to
Capulet
Which family is throwing a feast?
Cousin
How is Tybalt related to Juliet
End Family Feud
Why does Friar agree to Marry the two
dead
The nurse's description of the big fight leads Juliet to believe that Romeo is
Threats of disownment
What does Capulet do in an attempt to get Juliet to marry Paris
Tybalt is dead
Why do Juliet's parents think she is sad?
Mantua
What city does Romeo go to after his banishment?
Comic relief
Why was the scene that involves Capulet's wedding preparations put in the play
Nurse
Who find Juliet after she has taken the potion?
Balthazar
Who is Romeo's servant
Juliet is dead
What news does Romeo's servant bring to Romeo?
medicine man
What is an apothocary?
Death
What happens to someone who sells deadly drugs?
Touch Juliet's Cheek/ take back a ring
What two things does Romeo tell his servant he is going to do in the tomb
Lie next to Juliet
What is Paris' last request?
not destined to be together
What does it mean to be star-crossed lovers
William Shakespeare
Who wrote this play
Build a statue
What does Lord M tell Lord Ca he will do in honor of Juliet?
They make up
In the end of thet play, what happens between the C and M
Friar John
Who was supposed to deliver a letter to Romeo
Tragedy
What kind of play is this?
Montague
Which side of the family is romeo on?
Capulet
Which side of the family is juliet on?
Friar John
Who is responsible/capable of getting the letter to Romeo about the potion placed on Juliet?
Friar Lawrence's Cell
Where does Romeo run off to after killing Tybalt?
Being exiled
What is Romeo's punishment on the death of Tybalt?
Because she wants to fake her death, so she can say with Romeo
Why does Juliet take the potion>
Friar Lawrence
Who provides juliet's potion?
True
True or False Does Romeo talk about suicide after killing Tybalt?
He is her age, he is "youthful" better known as single, and he is very, CHARMING!
What are some reasons Juliet loves Romeo?
Yes
Does Paris agree to the rushing of the marriage with Juliet?
Paris asks for her marriage
Does Lord Capulet propose the marriage option to paris, or does paris reccomend Juliet's hand in marriage?
That it is not yet morning, and he can remain where he is, then hears the nightingale, MORNING!
What is the excuse for keeping Romeo in bed by Juliet?
Because he thinks she is dead, not under the potion
Why does Romeo kill himself if Juliet is still alive?
Yes!
Do Romeo and Juliet confirm (; their marriage, before their death?
Because he thinks it will bring the Montagues and Capulets together
Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet, when he knows that it is illegal?
the prince of cats
What does Mercutio call Tybalt?
Tybalt
Who dies along with Mercutio?
Romeo
Who kills Tybalt?
Because of the death of Mercutio
Why does Romeo kill JULIETS cousin, his WIFE's cousin, Tybalt?
Because he is rich
What is the main reason the Capulets want Juliet to marry Paris
Thursday
When, on what day, do Romeo and Juliet meet>
Mercutio and Benvolio
Who looks for Romeo after the ball?
Queen Mab
What fairy does Romeo have a dream about
Mercutio
Who, when drunk, speaks of Queen Mab?
To damn the Montague and Capulet Houses
What does Mercutio say last>
The balcony scene?
What scene occurs after Capulets ball?
No
Does Juliet know that Romeo is there when she speaks of him on the balcony?
no
Are lady capulet (juliets mother) close to her daughter (juliet)
Benvolio
Who is Romeo's cousin, who is oftenly seen in scenes with Mercutio?
birthplace of William Shakespeare. During Shakespeare's lifetime it was ruled by James I and then Queen Elizabeth I.
England
a person who writes plays for the theater
ex: William Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams
playwright
(1558-1603) Queen of England during the time of Shakespeare. During her leadership, England became an important naval and economic force in Europe and beyond.
Elizabeth I
a type of serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character
tragedy
a major category or type of literature
Shakespeare wrote tragedies, romances, comedies, and histories
genre
an introduction to a play
In Romeo and Juliet, this is written in the form of a poem called a sonnet. It summarizes the plot of Romeo and Juliet, two "star-crossed" (unlucky) lovers
prologue
a type of poem that has 14 lines. Each line has 10 syllables with the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
sonnet
protagonist of the play. He is a "star-crossed" lover, whose love for Juliet is tragic. He drinks poison and dies because he thinks Juliet is dead
Romeo
Prince of Verona. He wants to stop the feud between the Montagues and Capulets. He banishes Romeo for Tybalt's death. His relatives, Count Paris and Mercutio, die as a result of the feud.
Prince Escalus
a relative of the Prince and friend of Romeo. Nurse thinks he is a rude boy. Before he is killed by Tybalt while defending Romeo, he curses both families.
Mercutio
a noble gentleman that wants to marry Juliet. He is a relative of the Prince. Before she meets Romeo, Juliet agrees to get to know him. He is killed by Romeo in the vault at the end of the play
Count Paris
Lord Capulet's 13-year-old daughter and Romeo's wife. She defies her parents. She is a "star-crossed lover" that kills herself with a knife when she finds Romeo dead of poison.
Juliet
Juliet's confidante and messenger. She is a loyal but strange-looking person. At first she speaks well of Romeo then tells Juliet to marry Paris.
Nurse
a priest and and plant expert that agrees to marry Juliet and Romeo so their families' feud will end. He devises a plan so the lovers can be together, but the plan doesn't work.
Friar Laurence
tragedy, conflict, marriage, love
Themes of Romeo and Juliet
n. an area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on an upper level
This scene is one of the most famous scenes of all plays.
balcony
one who prepares and sells drugs for medicinal purposes. Like a modern drugstore pharmacist
In the story, he sells Romeo the poison because he needs the money
apothecary
Act 1+2:servants argue, Paris asks to marry Juliet, part and Juliet's house, balcony scene
Sunday
Act 2+3: Romeo and Juliet married by Friar Laurence, Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt, Romeo banished, Romeo and Juliet spend night together
Monday
to force someone to leave a place. Prince did this to Romeo
banish
Act 3+4:Lord Capulet insists Juliet marry Paris, Friar makes a plan, Juliet takes potion
Tuesday
Act 4:Juliet found "dead
Wednesday
Act 5:Romeo hears Juliet is dead and buys poison, Friar finds out his plan didn't work, Romeo kills Paris at the vault and then poisons himself and dies, Juliet wakes up and kills herself with a knife, Lord Montague and Lord Capulet make peace
Thursday
Comparison stated without "like" or "as"
ex:when Romeo says Juliet is the sun
ex: "[The light] is the east and Juliet is the sun.
Metaphor
giving human characteristics to nonhuman subjects
ex: The giant wave angrily swallowed the small ship.
ex: The morning smiles on the frowning night.
Personification
American musical of New York City gangs. Story based on Romeo and Juliet
West Side Story
Puerto Rican New York gang in the West Side Story (WSS). Maria's friends. (like the Capulets)
Sharks
American gang in the West Side Story (WSS). Tony's friends. (Like the Montagues)
Jets
a piece of paper placed where people can see it which describes criminals (outlaws, fugitives) wanted by law.
Wanted poster
the heading or caption of a newspaper article
headline
repetition of beginning sound in poetry
ex: Broncos Beat the Bears
ex: Tears for Tybalt
ex: Monstrous Murder
alliteration
I, me, we, us
first person pronouns
a person that can't read or write. Romeo finds out about the party from a Capulet servant that can't read.
illiterate
any epidemic disease with a high death rate. This was a problem during Shakespeare's time. The Friar's letter does not reach Romeo in time because the person delivering it gets quarantined because of this disease.
plague
a room where the bodies of people from the same family are put after their death
vault
English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616), 154 sonnets, 36 plays, an actor part of Lord Chamberlains men (Kings Men),major playwright in Elizabethan literature; owned Globe theater, which played his own work aft
William Shakespeare
Arguably Shakespeare's most famous play with the complete title of 'The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of...' begins with a Prologue which establishes that this play will be a tragedy and that the children of two feuding families, Romeo of the Mont
Prologue
Sampson and Gregory, servants to the Capulets and Abraham and Balthasar, servants to the Montague family start a street fight, which is joined by Benvolio (Montague) and Tybalt (Capulet). Escalus, the Prince of Verona who angrily learns of this fight, dec
Act I
Ignoring the danger, Romeo scales the Capulet's wall to be near Juliet, the woman he cannot forget... Unnoticed in Juliet's orchard, Romeo learns of Juliet's love for him. After declaring their feelings for each other, the two decide to marry. Juliet will
Act II
Benvolio and Mercutio (both Montagues) meet Tybalt (Capulet). Tybalt attempts to provoke Romeo into fighting. Mercutio fights Tybalt and is killed. Romeo then kills Tybalt. Escalus, the Prince of Verona banishes Romeo from Verona threatening death should
Act III
Paris reveals that the wedding will occur on Thursday. Juliet is cold to Paris. Friar Laurence tells Juliet to take a potion simulating death, allowing Romeo to take her away, unopposed to Mantua since everyone will think she is dead at the Capulet's anci
Act IV
In Mantua, Romeo learns of Juliet's death, deciding to risk his own life by returning to Verona at once to see Juliet one last time. Romeo also buys some poison from a local Apothecary. Friar John explains to Friar Laurence that his letter informing Romeo
Act V
a humorous play on words...Mercutio's in Act III, when he realizes he has been fatally wounded: "...ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man." Grave meaning "serious", but in this case, dead.
pun
A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes...Juliet: "Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon
personification
a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity...Romeo compares Juliet to the sun (Act II Scene II)
"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the
metaphor
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')...Romeo uses a this in Act I, Scene 4 when he is talking to Mercutio. He compares love to a thorn. He says
"Is love a tender thing? it i
simile
a line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage...Romeo uses this as he is listening to Juliet's soliloquy in Act 2, Scene 2. In
line 27, he says, "She speaks." He is not talking to Juliet, the only other person on stage
aside
a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
monologue
a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections...Romeo starts his famous speech about Juliet with the words, "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks" (II.ii.2). He is speaking to himself about Juliet.
soliloquy
Language that evokes images and triggers memories in the reader of the five senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell...In Act 1, Scene 5, lines 55 and 56, Romeo uses this to describe Juliet's beauty when he says, "So shows a dove trooping with crows
sensory imagery
the act of providing vague advance indications...In the Prologue to Act 1, the Chorus does this when they say to the audience, "civil blood makes civil hands unclean
foreshadowing
minor characters that are not very deep and do not undergo any substantial change or growth...The nurse can be considered a this kind of character. Her purpose in the play is to help Romeo and Juliet get married. She is Juliet's closest confidant, and she
flat characters
complex characters, often major characters, who can grow and change...Romeo, Juliet...
round characters
a piece of poetry...Friar Laurence (counseling Romeo just before marrying him to Juliet): These violent delights have violent ends// And in their triumph die, like fire and powder Which as they kiss consume.// The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own de
verse
unrhymed verse (usually in iambic pentameter)...This is verse that is made up of lines that are ten syllables (or five "feet") long, with the syllables alternating between unaccented and accented. A famous example is Romeo's speech from Act II, Scene 2:
blank verse
ordinary speech or writing without rhyme or meter; referring to speech or writing other than verse... in Act III Scene I, Mercutio speaks in this fashion when he challenges Tybalt and when he is stabbed: "Tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?" "Ask for
prose
a common meter in poetry consisting of an unrhymed line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable...The pattern most favored by Shakespeare is iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter is defined as a ten-s
iambic pentameter
The audience knows from beginning that the lovers are doomed. As much as they may try to thwart fate, their destinies are predetermined.
What is fate in Romeo and Juliet?
At the beginning of the play, Romeo is alone and depressed. His father says that his personal darkness is like "adding clouds to more clouds" (1.1.129). But later, his depression lifts when Romeo compares Juliet's beauty to light, the ethereal quality tha
Discuss the use of light versus dark in the play.
A Capulet, Juliet's cousin on her mother's side. Vain, fashionable, supremely aware of courtesy and the lack of it, he becomes aggressive, violent, and quick to draw his sword when he feels his pride has been injured. Once drawn, his sword is something to
Tybalt
Romeo's father, the patriarch of the Montague clan and bitter enemy of Capulet. At the beginning of the play, he is chiefly concerned about Romeo's melancholy.
Lord Montague
Romeo's mother, Montague's wife. She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled from Verona.
Lady Montague
The patriarch of the Capulet family, father of Juliet, husband of Lady Capulet, and enemy, for unexplained reasons, of Montague.
Lord Capulet
Juliet's mother, Capulet's wife. A woman who herself married young (by her own estimation she gave birth to Juliet at close to the age of fourteen), she is eager to see her daughter marry Paris. She is an ineffectual mother, relying on the Nurse for moral
Lady Capulet
A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor of Juliet most preferred by Capulet. Once Capulet has promised him he can marry Juliet, he behaves very presumptuous toward, acting as if they are already married.
Paris
Montague's nephew, Romeo's cousin and thoughtful friend, he makes a genuine effort to defuse violent scenes in public places, though Mercutio accuses him of having a nasty temper in private. He spends most of the play trying to help Romeo get his mind off
Benvolio
A Franciscan friar charged by Friar Lawrence with taking the news of Juliet's false death to Romeo in Mantua. Friar John is held up in a quarantined house, and the message never reaches Romeo.
Friar John
Romeo's dedicated servant, who brings Romeo the news of Juliet's death, unaware that her death is a ruse.
Balthasar
Two servants of the house of Capulet, who, like their master, hate the Montagues. At the outset of the play, they successfully provoke some Montague men into a fight.
Sampson & Gregory
Montague's servant, who fights with Sampson and Gregory in the first scene of the play.
Abram
An apothecary in Mantua. Had he been wealthier, he might have been able to afford to value his morals more than money, and refused to sell poison to Romeo.
The Apothecary
A Capulet servant who invites guests to Capulet's feast and escorts the Nurse to meet with Romeo.
Peter
The woman with whom Romeo is infatuated at the beginning of the play. Rosaline never appears onstage, but it is said by other characters that she is very beautiful and has sworn to live a life of chastity.
Rosaline