H. English - Romeo & Juliet Study Guide

Who said, “I, for winking at your discords too,/Have lost a brace of kinsmen”

The prince

Who was known as the “Peacemaker”?

Benvolio

Who Hides in an orchard late at night ?

Romeo

Who was the “flower,” when Lady Capulet said,  “Verona’s summer hath not such a flower”?

Paris

Who said, “I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain”?

Mercutio

“Take him and cut him out in little stars,/And he will make the face of heaven so fine/That all the world will be in love with night/And pay no worship to the garish sun”? Who does this quote refer to?

Romeo

 Who is this referring to: “What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is the sun”

Juliet

 Whose fingers itched? He said, “My fingers itch!” what did he mean?

Capulet’s fingers itched to beat Juliet

Who does this describe?, “By my count,/I was your mother much upon these years”?

Juliet

Who said and who does this describe?,  “I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth--/And yet, to my teen be it spoken, I have but four—“?

The nurse said this, talking about Juliet’s age

 Who is “More than Prince of Cats . . .”?

Tybalt

 Who was a Quarantined messenger . . .?

Friar John

 Who Mixes a sleep potion?

Friar Laurence

  “A gentleman of the very first house” (describes whom?)

Tybalt

“Verona brags on him/To be a virtuous and well-governed youth” (describes whom?)

Romeo

 “In truth…I am too fond/And therefore thou mayst think my havior light” (describes whom?)

Romeo

 “Fie, fie, What, are you mad?” (who is mad?)

Capulet

“Be ruled by me, forget to think of her” (who said this?)

Benvolio

 “Now, by my count, I was your mother much upon these years” (who said this?)

Lady Capulet

  “My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding/But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine/That you shall all repent the loss of mine” (who said this?)

Prince

“I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe./Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” (who said?)

Romeo

“By giving liberty unto thine eyes,/ Examine other beauties” (who said?)

Benvolio

“Younger than she are happy mothers made” (who said?)

Paris

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love” (who said?)

Mercutio

“Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days” (who said?)

Nurse

“By my count/I was your mother much upon these years” (who said?)

Lady Capulet

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move” (who said?)

Juliet

“But woo her . . . get her heart;/My will to her consent is but a part” (who said?)

Capulet

“Tut, man, one fire burns out another’s burning” (who said?)

Benvolio

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs” (who said?)

Romeo

“It is an honor that I dream not of” (who said?)

Juliet

“…fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next/To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s church/or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither” (who said?)

Capulet

“Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;/Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow” (who said?)

Friar Laurence

“I should have been more strange,/I must confess,/But that thou overheard’ st, ere I was ware” (who said?)

Juliet

What time of day were Shakespearean plays performed? . . .

During the afternoon

During the plays, Elizabethan audiences munched on . . .

Sunflower seeds and other varieties of small snacks

The less wealthy playgoers watched the play from the . . .

the pit

An Elizabethan play usually lasted . . .

2-4 hours

The Shakespearean plays had no . . .

female actors

The name of the theater where most of Shakespeare’s plays were performed was the ...

the globe

 Shakespeare lived from  . . .

1564 to 1616 at Stratford-upon-Avon

Shakespeare wrote -------- plays that we know of.

38

Characters who highlight, or bring out, the personality traits of another character are called . . .

foil characters

In Shakespeare’s plays, important or aristocratic characters typically speak in  . . .

Iambic pentameter

What do we call A speech in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thoughts to the audience?

Soliloquy

 What do we call a lengthy speech addressed to other characters on stage?

monologue

What do we call a remark made to the audience, unheard by the other characters?

aside

What do we call a contradiction between what a character thinks, or does, and what the audience or reader knows to be true?

dramatic irony

What is a drama in which the central character meets with disaster or great misfortune?

tragedy

What is a reference Roman or Greek mythology in the context of a piece of literature?

classical allusion

“When well-heeled April on the heel/Of limping Winter treads”

Personification

 “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs;/Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes/Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears”

Metaphor

 “O brawling love, O loving hate/O anything, of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity . . .“

Oxymorons

“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move”

Alliteration

 “Alas that love, whose view is muffled still/Should without eyes see pathways to his will”

Personification

“She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit”

Classical allusion

 “Marry, that “marry” is the very theme/I came to talk of”

Pun

“I am too sore enpierced with his shaft/To soar with his light feathers”

Pun

“O, God, I have an ill-divining soul!/Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb”

Foreshadowing

“Indeed I never shall be satisfied/With Romeo till I behold him—dead--/Is my poor heart”

Foreshadowing

“I would the fool were married to her grave!”

Foreshadowing

“Therefore pardon me,/And not impute this yielding to light love,/Which the dark night hath so discovered”

Light/dark motif

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep”

Simile

Where does Romeo first meet Juliet?

At Capulet’s party

How many “civil brawls” have the Capulets and the Montagues had in the city streets?

Three

 Who is the girl that Romeo is in love with at the beginning of the play?

Rosaline

Why is Romeo depressed at the beginning of the play?

Because Rosaline doesn’t like him back

Who is Mercutio related to?

The prince/royal family

How old is Juliet?

Thirteen turning fourteen

What does Mercutio say he has dreamt about?

That dreams often lie

Why is Tybalt angry with Romeo?

Because Romeo, a Montague and enemy of the Capulets, snuck into Capulet’s party uninvited

Why does Romeo kill Tybalt?

Romeo’s grief over Mercutio makes him kill Tybalt

How will Romeo get to Juliet’s room?

Through a rope ladder

How long will the Friar’s potion make Juliet sleep?

42 hours

Why does the messenger not get to Romeo?

Because he and his companion were suspected of having the plague and they were forcefully quarantined, Romeo didn’t know the truth about Juliet’s “death.”

What is the name of the town where Romeo must go in exile?

Mantua

What does Juliet’s father do when she says she will marry Paris?

He threatens to kick her out if she doesn’t marry Paris

When Friar realizes Romeo didn’t get the letter, what does he plan to do?

Be there when Juliet wakes up, hide her in his room, and write Romeo another letter.

What is one of the fears that Juliet has before she takes the sleeping potion?

That it doesn’t work and she’ll have to marry Paris

What does Romeo say when Balthasar tells him Juliet is dead?

"Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!"

Where does Romeo get the poison that he uses to kill himself?

An apothecary in Mantua

Why is Paris at the Capulet tomb?

To mourn Juliet’s death and to pay his respects

Why does Romeo kill Paris?

Paris thinks that Romeo is here to desecrate her tomb and attacks him

Why does everyone think Juliet died? (the first time)

Of grief for Tybalt’s death

What does Romeo do before he kills himself?

Kiss Juliet

What is the first thing that Capulet offers Montague at Romeo and Juliet’s funeral?

His hand in friendship and peace

What does Montague offer to Capulet at the funeral?

A golden statue of Juliet

 What does the Prince say will happen to those people involved in the plot of marrying Romeo and Juliet?

Some will be punished and some will be pardoned

At what point in his life did Shakespeare write Romeo and Juliet?

He was a young man

Shakespeare’s play was an original play which he created all aspects of. (True or false?)

False

Who were the “groundlings”?

Lower class members sitting in the pit because they couldn’t afford more expensive seatings.

What is the name of the group of actors who comment on a play’s action?

The chorus

What is “shrift?”

A confession to a priest

How old is Juliet?

Thirteen turning fourteen

Who will “not be hit with Cupid’s arrow”?

Rosaline

 When Juliet’s mother first introduces the idea of marriage to Juliet (to Paris), she uses an extended metaphor which compares him to what?

She compares him to a beautiful book

Mercutio’s long speech about dreams is known as a ? (character onstage giving a speech with other characters listening)

Monologue

 What excuse does Juliet use to leave the house to secretly marry Romeo?

She’s going to the priest for confession

When the Friar is first introduced in the play, what purpose does his soliloquy serve?

It talks about both the dangerous and also healing powers of herbs, it serves as foreshadowing.

At first, where does the Friar think that Romeo has been all night when Romeo approaches him in the garden?

He thought that Romeo slept with Rosaline