RNJ Test (copy w/other quizlet

what happens in scene 1?

servants Gregory and Sampson decide to pick a fight with Balthsar and Abraham

when Sampson and Gregory are talking, Sampson

boasts about how better he is than the Montagues

“My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee.”

sampson to gregory

sampson does what that angers the servants of Montague?

bite his tongue

Gregory becomes confident when

he sees Tybalt coming

Who stops the fight between the servants (Gregory, Abram, etc.)

the prince

how many times has there been a fight between Montagues & Capulets?

3

lady montague asks about romeo and what does benvolio say?

he saw romeo this morning but left him alone

“Away from the light steals home my heavy son,

And private in his chamber pens himself,

Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out

And makes himself an artificial night.

Black and portentous must this humor prove,

Unless good counsel may the cause remove.”

Capulet to Benvolio

“A sick man, in sadness, makes his will —

A word ill-urged to one that is so ill.

In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman.”

romeo to benvolio

Rosaline swore to

never be in love

what’s benvolio’s plan to help romeo forget Rosaline?

go compare Rosaline’s beauty to other girls/go to Capulet’s party

“But saying o'er what I have said before:

My child is yet a stranger in the world;

She hath not seen the change of fourteen years.

Let two more summers wither in their pride,

Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”

capulet to paris

Paris proposes to Capulet if he can marry juliet. Capulet first tells him to woo juliet, so he arranges a --- for them to get to know each other

party

“At this same ancient feast of Capulet's

Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest,

With all the admired beauties of Verona.

Go thither and, with unattainted eye,

Compare her face with some that I shall show,

And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

benvolio to romeo

why did romeo go to party??

to see rosaline

the nurse does what in scene 3

tell dirty jokes

what’s romeo planning to do at the party?

be boring, stand in the corner, not dance

“O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you;”

mercutio to romeo

what is romeo’s dream before going to Capulet’s party?

if he goes to the party, he will end up dying later

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,

For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night”

romeo to random servant

“Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone.

He bears him like a portly gentleman,

And, to say truth, Verona brags of him

To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.

I would not for the wealth of all this town

Here in my house do him disparagement.

Therefore be patient, take no note of him.                     

It is my will, the which if thou respect,

Show a fair presence and put off these frowns,

An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast.”

capulet to tybalt

“You are a saucy boy. Is't so, indeed?”

capulet to tybalt

juliet doesnt want to make the first move so then

romeo makes the first move

"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.

Be not her maid since she is envious”

romeo to juliet

juliet wishes romeo to refuse his name as a

montague and if he doesn’t, she’ll no longer be a Capulet

“Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye

Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet,

And I am proof against their enmity.”

romeo to juliet

juliet tells romeo that she isn’t easy to get and she’ll

play hard to get

juliet tells romeo not to swear by the moon because

the moon has phases that change

“But to be frank, and give it thee again,

And yet I wish but for the thing I have.

My bounty is as boundless as the sea,

My love as deep; the more I give to thee,

The more I have, for both are infinite.

juliet to romeo

juliet tells romeo that if he wants to marry her, he must

send word to her tomorrow

when do romeo and juliet swear to get married?

act 2 scene 2

“I will not fail; 'tis twenty year till then.

I have forgot why I did call thee back.”

juliet to romeo

“Then plainly know, my heart's dear love is set

On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.”

romeo to friar

what was romeo’s reason for loving juliet instead of rosaline?

juliet loved him back while rosaline didn’t

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

friar to romeo

“Alas poor Romeo! He is already dead, stabbed with

a white wench's black eye, run through the ear with a

love-song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind

bow-boy's butt-shaft — and is he a man to encounter

Tybalt?”

“Prince of cats…”

mercutio to benvolio

“And stay, good nurse, behind the abbey wall.               

Within this hour my man shall be with thee

And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair;

Which to the high top-gallant of my joy

Must be my convoy in the secret night.

Farewell, be trusty, and I'll quit thy pains.

Farewell; commend me to thy mistress.”

romeo to nurse

when does romeo meet nurse to tell her when juliet should go to friar laurence’s cell to get married?

act 2 scene 4

what time did the nurse come back to see juliet in act 2 scene 5

12

what excuses does the nurse give to not tell juliet of the news?

\-she's tired and her body hurts

\-Juliet isn't thankful for the Nurse doing her message

 -she's out of breath

“How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?”

juliet to nurse

when does juliet and romeo get married?

act 2 scene 6

“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 deliciousness,

And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Therefore love moderately: Long love doth so.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

friar to romeo

“Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford

No better term than this: thou art a villain.”

tybalt to romeo

“I do protest I never injured thee,

But love thee better than thou canst devise

Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.

And so, good Capulet — which name I tender

As dearly as mine own — be satisfied.”

romeo to tybalt

what does mercutio want to take from tybalt?

one of his nine lives (since he’s the prince of cats)

“No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church

door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow,

and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered,

I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses!”

mercutio to romeo

juliet’s solioquy in act 3, scene 2 is about

how she wishes it were night so that romeo and come and they can have their wedding night. she’s very impatient

tybalt was the best

friend nuse ever had

“There's no trust,

No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured,

All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.

Ah, where's my man? Give me some aqua vitae.

These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.

Shame come to Romeo!”

nurse to juliet

“There is no world without Verona walls,

But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

Hence banishèd is banished from the world,

And world's exile is death. Then 'banishèd'

Is death mistermed. Calling death 'banishèd,'

Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe,

And smilest upon the stroke that murders me.”

romeo to friar

“Thy Juliet is alive,

For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead:

There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,

But thou slewest Tybalt: there art thou happy.

The law that threatened death becomes thy friend

And turns it to exile: there art thou happy.”

friar to romeo

reasons the friar gives that romeo should be happy that he’s alive

\-juliet is alive

\-he killed tybalt

\-he is banished not sentenced to death

what is friar’s first plan?

live in mantua till friar finds time to tell everyone about romeo' + juliet’s marriage. then reunite with friends, ask the prince for forgiveness, and then he’ll come back

“Things have fall'n out sir, so unluckily,

That we have had no time to move our daughter.

Look you, she loved her kinsman Tybalt dearly,

And so did I. Well, we were born to die.”

capulet to paris

“These times of woe afford no time to woo.

Madam, good night; commend me to your daughter.”

paris to capulet to lady capulet

“Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.

It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.”

juliet to romeo

“It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.

romeo to juliet

“O, now be gone! More light and light it grows.”

juliet to romeo

“More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!”

romeo to juliet

when is the last time that juliet sees romeo?

act 3 scene 5 (their wedding morning)

“O think'st thou we shall ever meet again?”

juliet to romeo

what is lady capulet’s plan to kill romeo?

send a servant to mantua and give him a potion that will kill him

what does lord capulet threaten to do if juliet doesn’t marry paris?

to disown her

“Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much.           

Go in. And tell my lady I am gone,

Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell

To make confession and to be absolved.”

juliet to nurse

why does capulet want the marriage to be on thursday?

he wants paris to help juliet feel better because her cousin just died

“Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford.”

juliet to friar

when does nurse find juliet dead

act 4 scene 5

“Ha! Let me see her. Out, alas! She's cold.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff.

Life and these lips have long been separated.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

capulet

what was romeo’s dream about in act 5 scene 1?

he saw juliet seeing his dead body and kissing life into him. he wakes up and it’s a happy ending

how long was romeo at the capulet monument

30 mins

“Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.

For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

prince

spoken to another character/the audience so other characters cannot hear

aside

unreturned love

unrequited

doomed to fail

star-crossed

the poetic device that shows contradiction

oxymoron/paradox

a character who sets off another character by contrast so that each will stand out vividly

foil (character)

a long speech directed at other characters onstage

monologue

a 14 line poetic form

sonnet

at once

anon

what does wherefore mean?

why

What was the medieval concept of love at first sight where one swore all for love?

courtly love

word that means exile

banishment

what is the prince’s real name?

prince escalus

What city does the play take place?

Verona

Who are the families fighting?

The Montagues and the Capulets

Why are the Montagues and the Capulets fighting?

An ancient grudge, probably bc of land and power

What does the prologue say is the only thing that will end their parents' rage?

That 2 children from both families one from the Capulets and one from the Montagues fall in love but would kill themselves

What is the purpose of the prologue?

To hook the reader

What type of poem is the prologue?

A sonnet

What does Shakespeare do to highlight important parts in the plot?

He writes it as a sonnet

What is the exposition of Romeo and Juliet?

Prologue and Act 1

Who started the fight in Act 1 Scene 1?

Sampson a Capulet

Who is Sampson?

A servant of Capulet

Who is Romeo?

Son of Montague

Who is Benvolio?

Romeos friend and nephew of Montague

Who is Balthasar?

Servant of Montague

Who is Abram?

Servant of Montague

Who is Juliet?

Daughter of Capulet