Romeo And Juliet Character Quotes

Question 1

Romeo - what does Romeo say love is in Act 1 scene 1

Answer 1

‘Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs’

Question 2

Romeo - what oxymoron does Romeo use in act 1 scene 1 to describe love

Answer 2

‘O brawling love! O loving hate!’

Question 3

Benvolio- what does benvolio describe love as being in Act 1 scene 1?

Answer 3

‘Alas, that love, so gentle, in his view,

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!’

Question 4

Capulet - what does capulet say when he gets angry at Juliet for not liking Paris? (links to context)

Answer 4

‘Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!’

Question 5

Romeo- what did Romeo compare banishment to in Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 5

‘Is death mistermed. Calling death ‘banishment’’

Question 6

Benvolio - what does benvolio say to Mercutio when they are about to fight in act 3 scene 1

Answer 6

‘I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. The day is hot, the capulets abroad, And , if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl’

Question 7

Romeo- fate in act 3 scene 1

Answer 7

‘Oh I am fortunes fool’

Question 8

Romeo- fate in act 3 scene 1

Answer 8

‘Oh I am fortunes fool’

Question 9

Capulet- Act 3 Scene 5 imperative verbs triplet

Answer 9

‘Speak not. Reply not. Do not answer me.’

Question 10

Capulet - forcing Juliet to marry Paris or else….. ( act 3 scene 5)

Answer 10

‘To go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church,

Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither.’

Question 11

Juliet - Juliet refusing to get married to Paris (act 3 scene 5)

Answer 11

‘Now, by Saint Peter’s Church and Peter too,

He shall not make me there a joyful bride.’

Question 12

Lady capulet- wishes something (act 3 scene 5)

Answer 12

‘I would the fool were married to her grave!’

Question 13

Mercutio - mercutio curses the montagues and capulets (act 3 scene 1)

Answer 13

‘A plague o’ both your houses!’

Foreshadowing

Question 14

Juliet - Juliet asks why Romeo must be a Montague (act 2 scene 2)

Answer 14

‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy Father and refuse thy name.’

Question 15

Capulet - capulet is confused why Juliet is ungrateful (act 3 scene 5)

Answer 15

‘How, will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?

Is she not proud? Doth she not count her blessed,’

Question 16

Friar Lawrence - friar Lawrence advises against sinful delights (act 2 scene 6)

Answer 16

‘These violent delights have violent ends’

Question 17

Capulet - Represented as controlling in act 1 scene 5 using imperative verbs

Answer 17

‘Am I the master here, or you? Go to.’

Question 18

Tybalt - Keen to get into fight in act 1 scene 5

Answer 18

‘It fits when such a villain is a guest.

I’ll not endure him.’

Question 19

Mercutio - keen to fight without considering the consequences (act 3 scene 1)

Answer 19

‘An thou make minstrels of us, look to hear nothing but

discords.’