ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study notes. Exam Questions With Correct Answers
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ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study
notes. Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
In which town is the play set? In what country do you suppose this town exists? -
answerVerona italy
How could knowing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are coming improve the play? -
answerBuilds up suspense and/or ...
ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study
notes. Exam Questions With Correct
Answers
In which town is the play set? In what country do you suppose this town exists? -
answer✔✔Verona italy
How could knowing the deaths of Romeo and Juliet are coming improve the play? -
answer✔✔Builds up suspense and/or tension. Since the plot line was supposed to be a tragedy,
but it is at first a comedy it throws the audience off because they will have forgotten that it was
going to happen. It re-surprises them
When Sampson says he will not "carry coals," what does he mean?
What literary techniques is being used in this silly exchange between Sampson and Gregory? -
answer✔✔He will not be insulted by capsules men. Puns are being used
In Shakespearean times biting your thumb was... - answer✔✔An insult
Is Benvolio a montague or capulet? - answer✔✔Montague
Why doesn't lady capulet want her husband to get involved in the fight? - answer✔✔Because he
is too old to fight
How many times have the Capulets and Montagues had street fights recently? - answer✔✔Three
times
How has Romeo been spending his days recently? - answer✔✔Locked in his room being moody
List three oxymorons Romeo uses to describe the conflict between his family and the Capulets.
Then, explain how the family feud is oxymoronic in its nature. - answer✔✔Brawling love,
loving hate, heavy lightness, serious vanity, bright smoke, cold fire, and sick health
In your own words, we wrote Romeo speech about love in scene 1, lines 176-180, line by line. -
answer✔✔Love brings me anger and griefs lie in my heat but when you try to help you are just
making it worse
Romeo is heartsick over a girl (it's not Juliet) who is not at all interested in Romeo. Name three
of the ineffective romantic strategies Romeo has used in his attempt to woo this girl. -
answer✔✔1. Gold
2. Notes
3. Gifts
Why doesn't this girl like Romeo? - answer✔✔She's a nun
What does Benvolio tell Romeo to do in order to forget the girl who doesn't want him? -
answer✔✔Benvolio tells Romeo to see other girls and to forget about her. Look at how there are
so many other beautiful women out there
What "suit" does Paris bring to Capulet in scene 2? - answer✔✔It's a legal marriage agreement
to marry Juliet.
How old is Juliet? What are her fathers thought about allowing her to marry? - answer✔✔Juliet
is 13. Capulet, her father, won't be easily persuaded by Paris. Capulet thinks she's too young and
needs to wait 2 more years before she gets married. Also Juliet has to agree to the marriage if it
were to happen.
Lord Capulet's willingness to allow Juliet to have a say in whom she marries is pretty
progressive, since most marriages for the social class at the time would have been arranged by
parents. Why, do you suppose, Capulet is willing to take Juliet's feelings into consideration? -
answer✔✔Because she is an only child or was the only child to survive into adulthood so her
parents just want Juliet to be happy .
Why is the Capulet servant upset about having been given a pay of party guests to find? -
answer✔✔He can't read; he is illiterate
Why does Benvolio want to crash the party? Why does Romeo agree? - answer✔✔Benvolio
wants to prove to Romeo there are other girls better than Rosaline. Romeo agrees because he
wasn't a to be able to look at Rosaline for the night.
What does Romeo want to happen to his eyes if they find someone other than Rosaline desirable
at the party? What does this show is about Romeo? - answer✔✔He wants his tears to turn to fire
because nobody is more beautiful than Juliet. It tells us Romeo is a drama queen. Also it tells us
that Romeo once he is and he is all in. Once he falls for someone that will be his whole focus, he
is willing to take big leaps world by his heart not his head.
In your own words, explain the Nurse's two storied about Juliet as a toddler - answer✔✔When
Juliet was two the nurse decided to put wormwood on her nipples to get a bad taste to make
Juliet stop breast feeding so when Juliet sucked on it it was gross so she wouldn't breadth feed
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