Romeo and Juliet final test review

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 work

It's poison

She'll suffocate in the tomb

She'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."