Romeo and Juliet Study Guide

This set of vocabulary-style flashcards covers the plot details, characters, and key quote identifications for the Romeo and Juliet test based on the study guide transcript.

Setting of the play

Italy

Romeo's confidant

Friar lawrence, to whom Romeo confides in about his love for Juliet

Role of a Friar

The Preast

Marriage location

The Church where Romeo and Juliet get married

Reason Romeo kills Tybalt

Romeo Hills Tybalt because he kills mercutiu

Manner Juliet learns about Tybalt's death

Juliet learned that Romeo kiyed Tybalt through the nurse

Reason Juliet refuses to marry Paris

Juliet refuses to marry Paris because She s already married

Juliet's fears before taking the potion

The Friar is trying to kill her, Sufucation, and not being found

Quote: "O speak again bright angel for thou art as glorious to the night…"

A statement made by Romeo in Act 2

Quote: "Though his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all men's…"

A description of Romeo from Act 2

Quote: "Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet."

A statement made in Act 2 expressing that Romeo's love is set on Juliet and combined by holy marriage

Quote: "She'll not be hit with cupid's arrow…from loves weak childish bow she lives unharmed."

A reference to Rosaline

Quote: "…he's a man of wax….he's a flower….a very flower."

A description used to characterize Paris

Quote: "…talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain…"

A statement made by Mercutio regarding the nature of dreams

Quote: "Therefore love moderately; long love doth so…"

Advice given to love in moderation

Quote: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love"

Mercutio's advice on how to handle love

Quote: "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks. It is the east and Juliet is the sun!"

A observation made about Juliet

Quote: "Holy Saint Francis! What change is here! Rosaline that thou did's love so dear, so soon forsaken?"

An exclamation by Friar Lawrence regarding Romeo's sudden change of heart from Rosaline

Quote: "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."

A quote from Romeo regarding his experience

Quote: "What do this mixture do not work at all?"

A rhetorical concern from Act 4 regarding the potion

Quote: "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die; like fire and powder"

A warning from Act 3 regarding intense passions

Quote: "Don't tell me Friar… If… you can offer me no help…I'll implement it straight away with this knife."

Juliet's ultimatum from Act IV if she is not helped to stop the marriage

Quote: "O, swear not by the moon - the inconstant, fickle moon, that changes throughout its monthly course!"

An instruction from Juliet in Act 11

Quote: "I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first; or, if it did not, Your first is dead…"

An opinion offered by the nurse regarding Juliet's match with Paris versus her first marriage