Question | Answer |
The ruler of Verona | Prince Escalus |
What is the setting of the play? | Verona and Mantua, Italy |
What does "ere" mean? | before |
What does "Prorogued" mean? | delay or discontinue |
Where did Shakespeare get his idea for Romeo and Juliet? | From a long poem written early and from the myth Pyramus and Thisbe |
Who was Romeo in love with at the beginning of the play? | Rosaline |
There is a feud between what 2 families? | Capulet and Montague |
What does "thither" mean? | go there |
What family was Tybalt in? | Capulet |
Who killed Tybalt | Romeo |
Who did Tybalt kill? | Mercutio |
What character was a mother figure to Juliet? | the Nurse |
Who said, "Young men's love lies/not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." | Friar Lawrence |
What is the beginning of the play called when talking about structure? | Exposition |
Who is the peacemaker in the play? | Benvolio |
What do we learn in the Prologue? | All of the main events--feud, death of Romeo and Juliet |
Who was supposed to deliver the message to Romeo that Juliet was not dead | Friar John |
Who delivered the Queen Mab speech | Mercutio |
How was the Prince merciful to Romeo when he killed Tybalt. | He banished him instead of executing him |
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet | Shakespeare |
Who was the nurse's servant? | Peter |
Who did Juliet's father insist that she marry? | Paris |
What plan does Friar Lawrence come up with to save Juliet from marrying Paris? | Give her a sleeping potion so that she appears dead |
Who is Romeo's servant? | Balthasar |
Who said, "Be not so long to speak. I long to die/If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy | Juliet |
Who said, "I fear too early, for my mind misgives/some consequence yet hanging in the stars/shall bitterly begin his fearful date/with this night's revels and expire the term/of a despised life, closed in my breast, by some vile forfeit of untimely death. | Romeo |
Who said, "O, my love, my wife: Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath/Hath no power yet upon thy beauty." | Romeo |
"My only love sprung from my only hate." | Paradox |
jumbo shrimp, loving hate | oxymoron |
"Juliet is the sun" | metaphor |