romeo and juliet

Question 1

aside

Answer 1

dialogue said to the side that the audience and certain characters can hear.

Question 2

soliloquy

Answer 2

• monologue, actor is often left alone onstage.
• reveals inner thoughts
• long speech

Question 3

couplet

Answer 3

• 2 lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.

Question 4

poetry

Answer 4

written in verse with a structured pattern of speech.

Question 5

blank verse

Answer 5

verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter.

Question 6

prose

Answer 6

written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical stucture.

Question 7

alliteration

Answer 7

repitition of similar sounds in a sentence at the beginning of words.

Question 8

foreshadowing

Answer 8

hints that reveal something that is going to happen

Question 9

metaphor

Answer 9

comparaison between 2 things, does not say “like”

Question 10

simile

Answer 10

comparaison using as, like or than

Question 11

oxymoron

Answer 11

comtrasting concepts used together ( cold fire)

Question 12

personification

Answer 12

attaching human traits with inanimate objects

Question 13

pun

Answer 13

word suggests 2 or more meanings, creates humour or irony.

Question 14

See, what a scrouge is laid upon your hate,

that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!

Answer 14

5.3| the prince is speaking to montague, lady montague, capulet and lady capulet. The prince and Romeo and juliets parents have just heard the explanation from friar Lawrence about why their children are dead, and the prince is telling them this is the result of their stupid feud. He says it is their fault Romeo and Juliet are dead, because of their hate for each other. An oxymoron in this quotation is kill/ love. The impact on the characters is that montague and capulet realize that their feud was not worth the price of their children. The impact on the plot is that they finally understand that the feud did nothing but harm.

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

5.1| romeo is talking to himself. after he has been banished and is in mantua,he is waiting for a letter from friar lawrence. he had a dream, a dream that juliet found him dead. this is a foreshadowing of his death at the end of the play. the impact on the character is that he has a warning of his death,which he ignores. the impact on the plot is that the audience already knows that this actually happens, that juliet finds romeo dead, which builds suspence.

Question 16

This day’s black fate on more days doth depend;

this but begins the woe others must end.

Answer 16

3.1| romeo is speaking to benvolio. benvolio has just told Romeo that Mercutio is dead after his brawl with Tybalt. it is a foreshadowing because it says that death will happen again.

Question 17

these violent delights have violent ends,
and in the triumph die, like fire and powder which as they kiss consume. the sweetest honey
is loathsome in his own deliciousness,
and in the taste confound the appetite;
therefore, love moderatley; long love doth so;

too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

Answer 17

5.1|the friar is speaking to romeo, giving him advice before he marries juliet. he is telling him that they are moving too fast, comparing it to fire and powder. sweetest honey is loathsome is a personification. the impact on the character is that if he had listened to the friars very reasonable advice, they could’ve avoided their entire situation.

Question 18

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, expire the term
of a despised life closed in my breast
by some vile forfeit of untimely death,
but he that hath the steerage of my course
direct my sail!

Answer 18

1.4| Romeo is speaking to Benvolio and Mercutio. they are about to go into the Capulet ball when Romeo says he had a dream about his death if he goes to the party. he ignores his worries and goes anyways. he foreshadows his death, talking of his fearful date, or his death, using the words untimely death as well. that is true because if he hadn’t killed himself for another little while, they both wouldn’t have killed themselves.

Question 19

p 1

Answer 19

rash decisions Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet are so consumed by their feelings for each other they don’t stop to think. In the play, even Juliet says that they are moving too fast in their relationship, and need to slow down, then ignores that and the most sensible thing said in their relationship, when she says “although I joy in thee, I have no joy in this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say “it lightens.” Sweet, good night”. (2.2) She compares their relationship to lightning, so quick that once someone points it out, it’s gone.

Question 20

p 2

Answer 20

Romeo and Juliet tend to overreact. When something inconveniences them, is becomes a huge problem to them, and they tend to make bad decisions. When Romeo hears he is banished from Verona, he acts as if his life is over, there is no reason to live if he can’t be with Juliet. At the friar’s cell, after hearing he is banished Romeo says “there is no world without Verona walls, but purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence “banished” is banished from the world, and the world’s exile is death. Then “Banished” is banished is death mistermed. Calling death “banished,” thou cut’st my head off with a golden axe and smilest upon the stroke that murders me”. (3.3) He says there is no world without Juliet, that she means everything to him and not being with her is worse than death.

Question 21

p 3

Answer 21

With all the decisions that Romeo and Juliet make, they never stop to think of the consequences. They are from rival families and being together will have consequences for both, being the heirs of their families. They even foreshadow their death, and choose to ignore it. After Romeo and Juliet consummate their marriage Juliet says “O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookest pale.” (3.5)

Question 22

thesis

Answer 22

Because of Romeo and Juliet’s choices, they are tragic heroes