Romeo and Juliet
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Verona | the Italian city that is the setting of Romeo and Juliet |
| Capulet and Montague | the street fight in the opening scene is between the servants of these two families |
| Tybalt | Benvolio tries to stop the fight, but _______, a Capulet, attacks him |
| killed | the Prince says this will happen to the next person who disturbs the peace |
| Rosaline | Romeo is "in love" with this woman who wants to remain chaste |
| one | the number of children of Lord Capulet |
| Paris | asks Lord Capulet permission to marry his daughter |
| Juliet's mother and the nurse | the two people that tell Juliet that Count Paris would be a fine husband |
| mask | what does Romeo wear to get into the Capulet ball |
| Tybalt | recognizes Romeo as a Montague at the Capulet ball |
| Nurse | tells Romeo and Juliet the other's identity after they have fallen in love at first sight |
| 13 | Juliet's age |
| Juliet | "I'll look to lie, if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye. Than your consent gives strength to make if fly" Act 1, Scene 3 (97-100) |
| Mercutio | "O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you: She is the fairies' midwife..." Act 1, Scene 4 (53-55) |
| Romeo | "I fear too early, for my mind misgives" Act 1, scene 4 |
| Romeo | "O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" Act 1, scene 5 (43) |
| Juliet | "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late!" Act 1, scene 5 (136-137) |
| Romeo | "But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." Act 2, scene 2 (2-3) |
| Juliet | "O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse they name..." Act 2, scene 2 (32-35) |
| Juliet | "That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." Act 2, scene 2 (43-44) |
| Juliet | "Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow. That I shall say goodnight till it be morrow" Act 2, scene 2 (185-186) |
| Friar Lawrence | "O mickle is the powerful grace that lies In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile, that on the earth doth live..." Act 2, scene 3 (15-18) |
| Friar Lawrence | "In one respect I'll assistant be: For this happy alliance may so happy prove To turn your households' rancor to pure love" Act 2, scene 3 (90-93) |
| Nurse | "Your love says, like an honest gentleman, And a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, And I warrant a virtuous-Where is your mother?" Act 2, scene 5 (53-55) |
| Friar Lawrence | "Come, come with me, and we will make short work, For by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till Holy Church incorporate two in one." Act 2, scene 5 (35-38) |
| Mercutio | the joker who describes Rosaline in very graphic and sexual terms |
| moon | Juliet begs Romeo not to swear by the _____ when he professed his love for her |
| 9:00 | the time the nurse was SUPPOSED to meet Romeo |
| noon | the Nurse really met Romeo at ______ (time) |
| confessional | shrift is also called a___________ |
| Rosaline | Friar Lawrence thinks that Romeo has been with ______ when he meets the lad in his garden early one morning |
| Tybalt | sends a challenge to the House of Montague because of Romeo's infatuation with a Capulet relative |
| Peter | the Nurse's servant |
| Paris | according to the Nurse, Juliet thinks he is a toad |
| Friar Lawrence | he marries Romeo and Juliet |
| Mercutio | "I am hurt...a plague on both bouses! I am sped...Is he gone and hath nothing?" Act 3, scene 1 |
| Nurse | "Stand up, stand up, stand, and you be a man" Act 3, scene 3 |
| Friar Lawrence | "Hold thy desperate hand! Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art; Thy tears are womanish, they wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast..." Act 3, scene 3 |
| Capulet | "Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child's love: I think she will be ruled In all respect by me; nay more, I doubt it not" Act 3, scene 4 |
| Juliet | "Oh God, I have an ill-diving soul! Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb..." Act 3 , scene 5 |
| patience | Romeo answers Tybalt's insults (villain) with ________ |
| Mercutio | who Tybalt kills |
| Benvolio | tells the story of the fight to the Prince |
| banishment | Romeo is condemned to _______ as punishment for Tybalt's death |
| Nurse | who informs Juliet of her cousin's death |
| Romeo | Juliet realizes that if Tybalt had not been killed, he would have killed _________ |
| Friar Lawrence's cell | where Romeo hides after killing Tybalt |
| ring | Juliet sends the Nurse to Romeo in Friar's cell with this |
| Friar Lawrence | informs Romeo of the Prince's judgment |
| despondent | when he hears his sentence, Romeo is __________ |
| Mantua | Romeo plants to leave Verona and go here |
| moved up | Because of Juliet's grief over Tybalt's death, the date of the wedding is _____ _______ |
| Tybalt | the Capulets think Juliet is crying because of the death of _________ |
| disown her | Capulet threatens to do this to Juliet if she does not obey his wishes |
| absolution | Juliet tell her nurse that she will ask Friar Lawrence for |
| Juliet | "O shut the dorr, and when thou hast done so, Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!" Act 4, scene 1 (44-45) |
| Capulet | "Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upion the sweetest flower of all the field." Act 4, Scene 5 (28-29) |
| Friar Lawrence | "Hold, then, go home, be merry, give consent to marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow; Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone, Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take thou this vial, being then in bed..." Act 4, scene 1 (90-95) |
| Juliet | "Pardon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am ever ruled by you" Act 4, Scene 3 (55-58) |
| false | Friar Lawrence is pleased with the Capulet's plans for Juliet's wedding (T or F) |
| true | Juliet tells Friar Lawrence that she would rather kill herself than marry Paris (T or F) |
| false | Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a potion to take that will make her appear dead for 24 hours (T or F) |
| true | Juliet tells her parents that she will marry Paris (T or F) |
| true | Lord Capulet is so pleased with the news that Juliet will marry Paris that he moves the wedding u up a day (T or F) |
| true | the Nurse tells Juliet that she should forget Romeo and marry Paris (T or F) |
| true | Juliet is somewhat nervous and has misgivings before she takes Friar Lawrence's potion (T or F) |
| true | On the morning of the wedding, the Nurse find Juliet "dead" (T or F) |
| false | Paris is the first to discover Juliet "dead" (T or F) |
| false | Friar Lawrence scolds the Capulets for their heartless treatment of Juliet when she was alive |
| Balthasar | "Then she is well and nothing can be ill; Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, And her immortal part with the angels lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred's valt" Act 5, Scene 1 (17-20) |
| Romeo | "I defy you, stars!" Act 5, Scene 1 (25) |
| Friar Lawrence | "Now I must to the monument alone, WIthin this three yhours will fair Juliet wake. She will beshrew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accident." Act 5, scene 2 (25-29) |
| Romeo | "Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man, FLy hence and leave me. Stay not, be gone; live, and hereafter say, A madman's mercy bid thee run away." Act 5, Scene 3 (64-68) |
| Juliet | "Yes, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger, THis is thy sheath; there ruse, and let me die." Act 5, Scene 3 (168- 170) |
| Montague | "Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonigh..." Act 5, Scene 3 (210) |
| Prince | "The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence and have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardoned, and some punished For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" |
| Mantua | Romeo is in this city when Balthasar brings him news of Juliet's "death" |
| apothacary | Romeo goes to this person to buy the poison that will kill him |
| holiday | reason why the apothacary shop was not open |
| death | punishment for distributing poison |
| 40 ducats | the cost of the poison |
| Friar John | the Friar that does not deliever the letter |
| servant | Paris is warned that someone is in the graveyard by his ________ |
| Balthasar | Romeo gives _______ a letter that should be delievered to Mr. Montague first thing in the morning |
| ring | Romeo tells Balthasar that he is going to Juliet's tomb to get a _________ |
| Paris | At the Capulet monumnet, Romeo kills ________ |
| Romeo and Paris | when Friar Lawrence goes to the Capulet monument he finds these two dead |
| Friar Lawrence | he is with Juliet when she awakens |
| dagger | Juliet kills herself with a __________ |
| Montague's | whose wife dies at the end of the play? |
| Friar Lawrence | explains the story of Romeo and Juliet |
| aside | two people on the state, the other person doesn't hear what one is saying |
| soliloguy | one person on the stage speaking alone |
| epitalium | the wedding song, Queen Victoria would not let it be included in the play |
| catharsis | pity/fear felt by the audience |
| anagnoresis | the hero knows she/he made a mistake and will die because of it |
| pun | play on words |
| oxymoran | opposites ex-cold fire |
| metaphor | it is the east, and Juliet the sun |
| wherefore | why |
| Charnal House | Juliet fears she will be in a _______ _____, where bones are put after they are dug from a grave |
| Susan | Nurse's daughter who dies |
| 6 | number of guests invited to the wedding |
| 20 | number of cooks for the wedding |
| Angelica | the name of either the Nurse of Lady Capultet |
| Fransiscan | Friar Lawrence is a ___________ monk |
| Balthasar | Romeo's servant |
| Peter | illeterate servant |
| Go to | means shut up |
| Friar Lawrence | "Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast" |
| 42 hours | how long the deathlike state will be after Juliet takes the potion |
| three letters mentioned | Letter from Tybalt to Romeo, letter from Friar to Romeo, and letter from Romeo to his father |
| Prince | who has the last lines of the play |
| grief | Lady Montague dies from _______ |
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