11. FRIAR LAWRENCE = MONTAGUE The Friar counts as a Montague because he’s a Montague, a close confidant of Romeo, before anything else. Though, yes, it’s true. Later he helps both Romeo and Juliet and hopes for a reconciliation between the two families.
21. NURSE = CAPULET Just like Friar Lawrence, the Nurse in the exposition of the play is clearly aligned with just one family – in this case the Capulets – but later does things to assist a member of the other family as well. In the end, though, she’s a Capulet through and through, telling Juliet she should just “marry with the County.”
38. When Mercutio says, “’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door…,” he is referring to . . .
39. “’ Tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ‘tis enough. ‘Twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.” How many literary devices can you find in these lines?
54. Why is Friar John unable to deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo?
55. Why does the apothecary agree to sell Romeo the poison?
56. As this transaction occurs, the apothecary says to Romeo, “My poverty, but not my will, consents.” To this Romeo replies, “I [pay] thy poverty and not thy will.” This is an example of what literary device?
57. In the first two scenes of the play, Romeo was in love with . . .
62. Who said it? “ My child is yet a stranger in the world,/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;/ Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”
64. To whom is he speaking? “ My child is yet a stranger in the world,/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;/ Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”
66. What poetic device is being used? “ My child is yet a stranger in the world,/ She hath not seen the change of fourteen years;/ Let two more summers wither in their pride/ Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.”
67. Who said it? “ Out of her favor where I am in love.”
75. Who said it? “ I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; / But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
77. To whom is she speaking? “ I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; / But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
79. About whom is she speaking? “ I’ll look to like, if looking liking move; / But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ than your consent gives strength to make it fly.”
93. Who is speaking? “ I do protest I never injured thee, /But love thee better than thou canst devise/ Till thou salt know the reason of my love; / And so, good Capulet, which name I tender/ As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.”
95. To whom is he speaking? “ I do protest I never injured thee, /But love thee better than thou canst devise/ Till thou salt know the reason of my love; / And so, good Capulet, which name I tender/ As dearly as mine own, be satisfied.”
97. Who is speaking? “ Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague,/ See what a scourge is laid up on your hate,/ That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.”