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Romeo and Juliet Study Guide
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- 1What does the Prologue to Act I of Romeo and Juliet foreshadow?The death of Romeo and Juliet
- 2Are the characters Abram and Balthasar examples of flat or round characters?Flat
- 3Why does Romeo agree with Benvolio's plan to go to the Capulet party?Because he wants to see Rosaline
- 4In Act 1 Scene 5 at the Capulet feast, how is Capulet a dramatic foil to Tybalt?Capulet doesn't care that Romeo is there, but Tybalt is outraged
- 5What obstacles to Romeo and Juliet's relationship are already apparent in Act 1?Their families are enemies and Capulet plans for Juliet to marry Paris
- 6What details about Montague make him a round character?He's the head of a rival family; he cares about his son, Romeo
- 7What makes Benvolio a round character?He has multiple character traits
- 8What is the purpose of text aids?aids the reader on unfamiliar topics
- 9Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet is mainly the Capulet - Montague family feud and what else?Romeo and Juliet's first meeting
- 10What is the primary key to reading blank verse?You pay attention to punctuation rather than line endings
- 11In Act 2, what does Friar Lawrence's agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet show about his character?He looks beyond the immediate events. He wants to end the feud between the families.
- 12What character trait of Romeo is emphasized by the sociability of Benvolio and Mercutio in Act 2?His moodiness
- 13In Act 2, what are Benvolio and Mercutio concerned about the letter that has arrived at Romeo's father's house?It's asking Romeo to fight in a duel and Benvolio and Mercutio don't believe he has the capability to win.
- 14In Act 2, how does Benvolio serve as a foil for Mercutio?Mercutio is goofy and humorous while Benvolio is focused and serious
- 15In Act 2, what are the differences in attitudes towards love between Romeo and Friar Lawerence and Mercutio?Friar Lawerence : practical; Romeo : idealistic, romantic; Mercutio: sexual romance
- 16In Act 2, what makes Romeo's love for Juliet different from his love for Rosaline?Juliet returns his love while Rosaline doesn't
- 17What is Act 2 mainly about?Romeo and Juliet's marriage
- 18What is blank verse?unrhymed verse written in iambic pentameter
- 19What do the opening lines of Act 3 about the weather hint at or foreshadow?The hot weather foreshadows the hot tempers that lead to the fight between Mercutio and Tybalt
- 20What motivates Romeo to kill Tybalt in Act 3?Tybalt killing Mercutio; a revenge killing
- 21Why is Capulet so upset by Juliet's refusal to marry Paris in Act 3?Capulet saw Paris as the perfect suitor for her
- 22Why does Juliet lose trust in the Nurse at the end of Act 3?The nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris
- 23What is a soliloquy?a long speech to the audience where the character is usually alone and they express their thoughts to the audience
- 24What is a monologue?a long speech to other characters on the stage
- 25What is an aside?a short speech that shares the characters thoughts and feelings
- 26What choice is the central issue of Act 3?Juliet has to choose between family and romantic love?
- 27What is a paraphrase?A restatement in your own words
- 28When Paris comes at the beginning of Act 4 to discuss his sudden wedding plans with Friar Lawrence, why doesn't Friar Lawrence like the plans?Friar Lawrence knows Juliet is married to Romeo
- 29What makes Paris remarks at the beginning of Act 4 about Juliet's sorrow for the loss of Tybalt an example of dramatic irony?Juliet actually weeps for Romeo's banishment
- 30What is Act 4 primarily about?Juliet's plan to avoid her marriage to Paris
- 31Which lines from Juliet's monologue in Act 4 (Two days before her wedding to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry Paris.), best predict the outcome of the play?"Or bid me go into a new made grave. And hide me with me in his shroud."
- 32What is Friar Lawrence's role in dealing with Juliet?He is an ally
- 33In Act 4 Scene 2, what accounts for Juliet's modesty towards Paris that she describes to her father?She loves Romeo not Paris
- 34What do the lines in Scene 3 of Act 4 Juliet speaks before she takes the potion and after her mother and nurse have left predict?She has a plan to feign her death, in which all could go wrong
- 35What is Friar Lawrence's plan for Juliet?Juliet takes the potion, appears dead, wakes up in the tomb, Romeo would know the plan, come to the tomb and take her to Mantua
- 36How is Capulet's speech after the nurse discovers Juliet in bed on the day of the wedding in Act 4, an example of dramatic irony?Juliet is actually sleeping
- 37Which of Romeo's lines from his opening soliloquy of Act 5 hints at the outcome of the play?"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead"
- 38In Act 5, what causes Friar Lawrence's important message to Romeo to go astray?His messenger, Friar John, is unexpectedly delayed for a day.
- 39Where is the play set?Verona, Italy
- 40Who is the author of Romeo and Juliet?William Shakespeare
- 41Why is the peace at the end of the play a gloomy peace?Because the cost of the deaths and the deaths themselves
- 42What knowledge or revelation springs from the suffering of the characters in the play?the families were responsible for the deaths because of their feud
- 43What is the theme of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?Those who act in haste bring their own destruction
- 44Which of Romeo's character traits contributes to his downfall?His impulsivity
- 45How would the Capulets and the Montagues describe the theme of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?Hatred between families can rob people of what they hold dearest
- 46What is the central idea of Act 5?the power of chance
- 47Why in the Prince's speech at the end of Act 5, when calls forward Capulet and Montague, does her refer to them as "enemies" instead of grieving fathers?It's his way of scolding and blaming them
- 48What is the most direct cause of Romeo and Juliet's death?Friar John's delay
- 49What does Romeo mean when he says to Paris in Act 5, "I love thee better than myself, for I come hither armed against myself."?He didn't want to fight Paris, he came to kill himself at the tomb
- 50What causes Friar Lawrence to go to the churchyard in Act 5?His letter didn't get to Romeo so He has to assist Juliet when she wakes
- 51Why does Romeo decide in Act 5 to poison himself after he learns of Juliet's death?He doesn't want to live without her
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