Romeo And Juliet: Act 1-2 Flashcards

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scene one starts off how

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With the servants fighting

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Setting

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Verona

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Maidenhead

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Virginity

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Is an insult to another person (like sticking up the middle finger)

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Biting the thumb

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Why is Romeo depressed and why does he speak in oxymoron

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Because Rosaline doesn’t love him back and because that is what he is feeling. He loves her but she doesn’t love him back

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Why doesn’t Rosaline love Romeo?

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Because she is chaste and wants to become a nun

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Is lady Capulet close to Juliet?

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No, and you can see it because Lady Capulet needs the nurse to be in the room to talk to Juliet

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When is Juliet’s birthday?

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July 31

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Did the nurse breastfeed Juliet?

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Yes, until Juliet was 3

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Is a fairy that puts dreams into your head

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Queen Mab

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Why does Benvolio tell Romeo to go the ball?

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So that he could get over Rosaline and see other beauties

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What dream does Romeo get from Queen Mab?

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He foreshadows his death

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Who is Paris?

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The guy who wants to marry Juliet

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What is wrong with the servant that was entrusted to invite the guests?

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He can not read

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Why does Romeo agree to go to the ball?

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He knows that Rosaline is going to be there since she is Capulet

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What are Romeo and Juliet disguised as for the party?

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Romeo is a pilgrim and Juliet is a Saint

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In Act 2 what is Romeo sayings?

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How he is over Rosaline and now in love with Juliet

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What do romeo friend’s think when Romeo disappears

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That he is depressed

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What does Romeo refer Juliet as

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Bright things; stars, the sun

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Talk about the comparison between the sun and the moon

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Juliet is the sun and she is beautiful and full of life while the moon is depressed and pale

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What puts Juliet eyes to shame

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Her rosy cheeks

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Sweet sorrow

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Oxymoron because she has to say goodbye but sweet because she is seeing him

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Is an apothecary, works with drugs

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Friar Lawerence

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Greek; weakness

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Hamartia

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What’s Romeo hamartia

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is that he is too quick to do things without thinking. He is rash. It leads to his death
In love with Rosaline with one minute then Juliet the next
Gets in engaged the day he meet her
Him buying the potions without even talking to Friar Lawerence

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When Romeo is talking about being wounded what is referring

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Cupid

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sent a letter to Romeo’s house asking for a duel because he crashed the party

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Tybalt

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believe that Romeo is already dead because he doesn’t know how to fight all he does is cry because Tybalt is such a great fighter

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Mercutio and Benovilo

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What are the plans after marriage

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the plan after the wedding was for Romeo and Juliet spend the night together and the next day tell the parents that they are married. Obviously plans change

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these violent delights have violent ends

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Foreshadowing to us that something is going to occur

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thinks it’s immoral that he leaves Romeo and Juliet be left alone but he doesn’t think it’s immoral to marry them without there parents consent

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Friar Lawerence