Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet Study Guide

What meter does Shakespeare usually use?

 Iambic Pentameter

When was Shakespeare born?

1564

When were Shakespeare's plays done?

2-4 PM

Shakespeare's contemporaries?

Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlow

What did Shakespeare do?

He was a playwright, actor, and partial owner of the globe theater

What is the name of Shakespeare's acting company?

The Lord Chamberlain's Men, then the Kingsmen

What was the name of the time Shakespeare lived?

Elizabethan

What play was being played when the globe theater burnt down?

Henry the 8th

Did Shakespeare create the plot of Romeo and Juliet?

No

What type of plays did Shakespeare write?

 History, Comedy, Romance, Tragedy

How does the fight in scene one start?

The servants of both families fight

All of the following words are archaic(no longer in use) except?

Halt

“Something about untimely death”- what event does this quotation predict?

Romeos death

Sonnet question, the term cuplet refers to two lines of poetry that rhyme with each other, and are written in iambic pentameter.

Both are true

What information does Shakespeare provide in the prologue?

Romeo and Juliet will die and that it will end the feud between families

How is Mercutio a foil to Romeo?

 Romeo and Mercutio look at women differently: Romeo falls in love, Mercutio is horny, he makes love then ditches.

\~ A __*foil*__ means characters in a play that can be a __*foil*__ for another. \~

\~ For example, Maddox-Rusandu, the opposite. \~

When Romeo says that Juliet is the sun, what metaphoric device is it?

A metaphor

What is the figure of speech involved when Romeo says Juliet's cheeks are so bright they do something with her cheeks?

Hyperbole

Why does friar Laurence rebuke Romeo?

Because he loved Rosaline and quickly switched to Juliet

Why does Friar Laurence agree to marry the couple?

To end the feud

What kind of mood is Mercutio in when Romeo and he are walking down the street?

Angry mood

What's the turning point of the play?

Tybalt’s death

What is Romeo's punishment for killing Tybalt?

He is exiled

Why does Romeo not want to fight Tybalt?

He is married to Tybalt's cousin(Juliet)

Juliet responds to the news of Tybalt’s death with?

Uncontrollable weeping

Why does Friar Laurence think that Juliet is brave enough to take to potion?

Because she wanted to kill herself before.

What are the physical effects of the potion on Juliet?

Faint pulse, lose color in the cheeks and lips, cold body (could be all of the above)

Who brings Romeo the news from Verona?

Balthasar

What is the climax of the play?

When Juliet __*really*__ dies in real life no fake no lie(gone wrong)

What is the Friar's deadly mistake?

 Marrying Romeo and Juliet

Quote by Romeo

==“**Give me a torch**==; I am not for this ambling. Being but heavy, I will bear the light.”

Quote by Juliet

==**“What's in a name?**== That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.”

Quote by Friar Laurence

==**“For this alliance may so happy prove**,== To turn your households' rancor to pure love.

Quote by Mercutio

==**Fairies**==

Quote by Prince

==**“If ever you disturb our streets again**,== Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. 100 For this time all the rest depart away.”

Quote by Tybalt

==**“Romeo, the love I bear thee**== can afford no better term than this: **Thou art a villain.”**

Quote by Nurse

 ==**“Marry and thy men…”**==

Quote by Lord Montague

“But I can give thee more, ==**For I will raise her statue in pure gold**,== That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate.”

Quote by Lord Capulet

==**“Die in the streets ugly ho!”**==

Quote by Benvolio

==**“Come, he hath hid himself among these trees**==, To be consorted with the humorous night. Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.”