Untitled Flashcards Set

consort (v): “Mercutio, thou consort’st with Romeo.” (Scene 1, line 41) Keep company with someone

eloquence (n): “But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence.” (Scene 2, line 33) Fluent or forceful in speech or writing97

beguile (v): “Poor ropes, you are beguiled…” (Scene 2, line 133) charm or enchant someone in a deceptive way

calamity (n): “And thou art wedded to calamity.” (Scene 3, line 3) Serious event causing distress

stratagem (n): “…that heaven should practice stratagems against…” (Scene 5, line 210) Cleverly devised plan

Part 2: Identify the speaker of each quote (4pts).

1. “A plague o' both your houses! They have made worms' meat of me.”  Mercutio

2. “Oh, I am fortune's fool!” Romeo

3. “I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face.” Capulet

4. “Good Father, I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patience but to speak a word.” Juliet

inundation (n): “To stop the inundation of her tears…” (Act 4, Scene 1, line 12) an overwhelming abundance of people or things.

detestable (adj): “Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled...” (Act 4, Scene 5, line 56) deserving intense dislike.

melancholy (adj): “Our instruments to melancholy bells…” (Act 4, Scene 5, line 86) a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.

pestilence (n): “Where the infectious pestilence did reign…” (Act 5, Scene 2, line 10) a fatal epidemic disease

inexorable (adj): “More fierce and more inexorable far...” (Act 5, Scene 3, line 38) impossible to stop or prevent.

Part 2: Identify the speaker of each quote (4pts).

1. “The obsequies that I for thee will keep nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.” Paris

2. “Here's to my love! (drinks the poison) O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick.” Romeo

3. “Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath.” Juliet

4. “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Prince Escalus