Romeo and Juliet

1. Romeo and Juliet • Exam Review

2. Name That Character

3. Balthasar • Tells Romeo Juliet is dead • Falls asleep outside the Capulet vault • “I brought my master news of Juliet’s death”

4. Benvolio • Is the peacemaker in the play • Advises Romeo to get over Rosaline by looking at other girls • “Part fools, put up your swords, you know not what you do.”

5. Lord Capulet • Tells Tybalt not to mess with Romeo because he’s a good kid • Tells Paris he must win Juliet’s heart • Threatens to disown Juliet • Moves Juliet’s wedding to Paris to Wednesday • “Death is my son-in-law.”

6. LadyCapulet • Isn’t very close to Juliet • Asks Juliet how she feels about getting married • Casts Juliet aside, telling her to do whatever she wants • “He is a kinsman to the Montague; affection makes him false.”

7. Paris • Is Juliet’s “arranged” husband-to-be • Gets killed at the Capulet vault • “O I am slain! If thou be merciful, open the tomb, lay me with Juliet.”

8. I Know My Characters

9. Prince Escalus • Warns the family if anyone fights again, the punishment will be death • Exiles Romeo • Is punished for the the feud also by losing two relatives • “All are punished.”

10. Friar Laurence • Agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet to hopefully end the feud • His “art” has his tinkering with potions • “But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, and she, too desperate, would not go with me.”

11. Juliet • Is closer to the Nurse than her mother • Has doubts about drinking Friar’s potion • “What if it be poison which the friar subtly hath ministered to have me dead?.”

12. Lady Montague • Dies from grief over her son’s exile • “Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.”

13. Mercutio • Likes to joke around • Believes that dreams mean nothing • Curses the houses of Montague and Capulet • “O then I see Queen Mab hath been with you.”

14. Hodgepodge(It Could Be Anything)

15. Nurse • Tells Juliet to marry Paris for her first marriage is “dead” • She finds Juliet dead • “Madam, your mother craves a word with you.”

16. Verona, Italy Late 1300’s • The main setting of Romeo and Juliet

17. Rosaline • Romeo’s love at the beginning of the play

18. Lord Montague • Romeo’s father • Wife dies in the end over grief for Romeo’s banishment

19. Tybalt • Is saucy and fiery • Challenges Romeo to a duel • Kills Mercutio • “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford no better term than this-thou art a villain.”

20. And Then There Were More Still More Characters (and Places) from Romeo and Juliet

21. Romeo • Falls in and out of love quickly • Comes between Mercutio and Tybalt as they fight • Kills Tybalt • “I defy you stars!”

22. Apothecary • Sells Romeo poison • Sells poison to Romeo due to poverty • Romeo thinks his gold is more poison to men’s minds • “My poverty and not thy will consents.”

23. Friar John • Is unable to deliver the letter to Romeo because he was locked up by watchers of the town who thought he was infected

24. Mantua • Where Romeo stays during his exile

25. Potpourri

26. Exciting Force/Rising Action • Romeo reads the party invitation for the illiterate servant

27. Turning Point/Climax in the Play • Romeo kills Tybalt

28. What Is the Catastrophe? • The deaths of Romeo and Juliet

29. What Type of Play Is Romeo and Juliet? • Tragedy

30. valiant pernicious rapier nuptial endure conjure rite tidings banishment herald abate provision environ lamentable beguile apothecary abhor unsavory restorative ambiguities

31. prologue sonnet vendetta allusion foreshadowing flashback theme soliloquy monologue aside Dramatic irony Plot structure Exposition Rising action Conflict examples Climax Falling action Catastrophe