Romeo and Juliet quizlet
What is a monologue?
A lengthy speech that is addressed to other characters on stage, not to audience.
What is a Simile?
A statement that compares two things that are not alike USING "like" or "as"
Who said this quote? "Hold: get you gone, be strong and prosperous in this resolve: I'll send a friar with speed to Mantua, with my letters to thy Lord."
Friar Lawrence
Who said this quote? "Alack, alack, what blood is this, which stains They stoney entrance of this sepulcher? What mean these masterless and gory swords To lie discolru'd by this place of peace?"
Friar Lawrence
Who said this quote? "Now I must to the monument alone; Within thus three hours will fair Juliet wake. She will beshrew me much that Romeo, Hath not notice of these accidents. But I will write again to Mantua."
Friar Lawrence
Who is Paris?
He is promised Juliet's hand in marriage by her dad. He's nice (NEUTRAL)
What example of figurative language is this? "I am no poilet; yet, wert thou as far/ As that vast shore washe'd with the farthest sea/ I would adventure for some merchendise."
Hyperbole
Who said this quote? "Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have faint cold fear thrills through my veins, that almost freezes up the heat of life: I'll call them back again to comfort me. Nurse!"
Juliet
Who said this quote? "Wash they his wounds with tears? Mine shall be pent, when theirs are dry for Romeo's banishment."
Juliet
Who said this quote? "Whats in a name? The thing which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.
Juliet
Who is Tybalt?
Juliet's cousin, hot head, jumps to conclusions, loyal to family (CAPULET)
Who is Lord Capulet?
Juliet's father, very controlling (CAPULET)
Who is Lady Capulet?
Juliet's mom, self absorbed, cares about image, wants Juliet to start a family (CAPULET)
who is "the Nurse"?
Juliet's nurse, caring, loving, too talkative (CAPULET)
Who said this quote? "Well, I think of marriage now; younger then you Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, Are made already mothers."
Lady Capulet
Who said this quote? "I will make a desperate tender of my child's love: I think she will be ruled in all respects by me."
Lord Capulet
Who said this quote? "A plague o' both your houses! I am sped."
Mercutio
What example of figurative language is this? "Speak again bright angel"
Metaphor
Who said this quote? "Hie to your chamber. I'll find Romeo to comfort you. I wot well where he is."
Nurse
Who said this quote? "Yes maddam: yet I cannot choose but laugh, To think it should leave crying and say 'Ay'. And yet, I warrent, it had upon its brow, A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone; a parlous knock; and it cried bitterly: 'Yea', quoth my husband, 'fall'st upon thy face? Thou wilt fall backward when thou commest to age; Wilt not, Jule?' it stinted and said 'Ay'".
Nurse
What example of figurative language is this? "O brawling love, O loving hate"
Oxymoron
Who said this quote? "An eagle madam, hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye."
Paris
What example of figurative language is this? "Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon."
Personification
Who said this quote? "Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art: They tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote the unreasonable fury of a beast."
Romeo
Who said this quote? "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead, strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think! And breathed such life with kisses in my lips, That I revived and was an emperor."
Romeo
Who said this quote? "I will answer it. I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all of heaven, Hawing some buisness, do entreat her eyes, To twinkle in there spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp. Her ete in heaven; would, through the airy reigon, stream so bright, That birds would sing and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek!"
Romeo
Who said this quote? "There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Then these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison: thou hast sold me none. Farewell, buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, coridal and not poison, go with me."
Romeo
Who is Mercutio?
Romeo's best friend, killed by Tybalt (MONTEGUE)
Who is Benvolio?
Romeo's cousin, peacemaker, loyal to family (MONTEGUE)
What example of figurative language is this? "How silver-sweet sound lovers tongues by night/Like softest music to attending ears."
Simile
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
What is a soliloquy?
a lengthy speech in which a character is usually alone on stage and is expressing their thoughts to the audiance
What is a metaphor?
a statement that compares things that are not alike WITHOUT USING "like" or "as"
What is a Hyperbole?
an exaggeration that is created to emphasize a point of bring out a sense of humor EXAMPLE: I have told you a million times to wash the dishes.
Who is Romeo?
main character, brave, love struck, hopeless romantic, dramatic, and impatient (MONTEGUE)
Who is Juliet?
main character, dramatic, stubborn, independent, easily influenced, and impatient (CAPULET)
What is personification?
the attribution of a human characteristics to non-living objects EXAMPLE: January is the cruelest month of the year
