Romeo

Question 1

What does Romeo say in the first scene that links sadness with time and what technique is used here?

Answer 1

“Sad hours seem long”

• This quote is ironic would soon get over his love for Rosaline

Question 2

Analyse an example of an oxymoron Romeo uses in Act 1 scene 1?

Answer 2

“Oh brawling love, oh loving hate”

• ‘loving hate’ may indicate Tybalts love for violence whilst brawling love could indicate the complications of Romeo and Juliets relationship

Question 3

What quote from Act 1 Scene 1 relates love with smoke and what technique had been used here?

Answer 3

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs”

• a metaphor had been used here

Question 4

What quote from Act 1 Scene 1 relates lovers tears with a sea and what technique was used here?

Answer 4

“Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears”

Question 5

How does Romeo describe Rosalines beauty if she dies and what does this contrast with?

Answer 5

“When she dies, with beauty dies her store”

This quote contrasts with how Romeo views Juliets beauty when she ‘dies’ later on in the play as he says “Why art thou yet so fair”

Question 6

What does Romeo ask Benvolio to teach him and what technique is used here?

Answer 6

“Oh teach me how I should forget to think”

• Irony is used here as it already seems like Romeo hasnt been thinking before he acts throughout the play

Question 7

How does Romeo describe the impact of love in Act 1 Scene 2?

Answer 7

“kept without my food, whipped and tormented”

Question 8

What does Romeo say in Act 1 Scene 2 that shows that he doesnt believe he will meet anyone fairer than Rosaline at the ball?

Answer 8

“no such sight to be shown”

Question 9

Give a quote from Act 1 Scene 3 that uses wordplay to describe Romeo’s heavy soul

Answer 9

“You have …… nimble soles, I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground”

Question 10

In Act 1 Scene 3, Romeo says that love is too..

Answer 10

“rough, too rude, too boisterous , and it pricks like a thorn”

Question 11

In Act 1 Scene 3, what does Romeo say right after Mercutio says “Dreamers often lie” and what does this about Romeos character?

Answer 11

“…in bed asleep”

• This shows that Romeo doesnt want to accept reality

Question 12

Give a quote in Act 1 Scene 3 where Romeo foreshadows death

Answer 12

“some consequence yet hanging in the stars”

Question 13

Analyse a quote from Act 1 Scene 5, that links Juliet with light?

Answer 13

“She doth teach the torches to burn bright, It seems…..rich Jewel in an Ethiop’s ear”

• highlights Romeo quick change of loving Rosaline to loving Juliet
• Uses light imagery to portray Juliet as the only light he sees

Question 14

Give a quote from Act 1 Scene 5 where Romeo uses religious language to portray his love for Juliet and what does this tell us?

Answer 14

“my lips, two blushing pilgrims”

• Romeo’s Immaturity as he only just met Juliet
• Link with religion highlights the purity of their love

Question 15

In Act 1 Scene 5, what does Romeo say after finding out that Juliet is a capulet?

Answer 15

“My life is my foe’s debt”

Question 16

Give a quote from Act 2 Scene 2 whene Romeo compares Rosaline with Juliet

Answer 16

“It is the east and Juliet is the sun”

Question 17

(Act 2 Scene 2), Romeo says “The brightness of…

What technique is used in this line?

Answer 17

her cheeks would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp”

• simile

Question 18

Give a quote from Act 2 Scene 2 that links to Romeos conversation with Benvolio in Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 18

In Act 2 Scene 2, Romeo says “I am not Romeo”. This links to the quote from Act 1 Scene 1, “I am not here, this is not Romeo” which may indicate that perhaps Romeo’s love for Juliet isnt that different from Rosalines

Question 19

Give a quote from Act 2 Scene 2 that highlights the theme of meeting at night

Answer 19

“nights cloak”

• metaphor

Question 20

Analyse a quote from Act 2 Scene 2, that shows Romeo’s immature behaviour

Answer 20

“Forgetting any other home but this (Juliets Balcony)”

This shows that Romeo has lost control over reality and is consumed by the idea of love

Question 21

Give a quote that indicates Romeo loss of feelings for Rosaline, in Act 2 Scene 3

Answer 21

“Rosaline…i have forgot that name”

Question 22

Give a quote from Romeo, in Act 2 Scene 6, where he challenges death and what technique is used here?

Answer 22

love-devouring death do what he dare”

-repetition of ‘d’ portrays the power of death

Question 23

Give 2 quotes, from Act 3 Scene 1, where Romeo tries to keep peace with Tybalt

Answer 23

1. “The reason that i have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage”
2. ‘love thee better than thou canst devise’

Question 24

Give 2 quotes from Romeo, in act 3 scene 1, that foreshadows dark events to come

Answer 24

1. ’ This days black fate on more days doth depend’

2. ‘ Oh, I am fortunes fool’

Question 25

Give a quote, from Act 3 Scene 1, that suggests that Juliets beauty made Romeo weak (when Tybalt killed Mercutio and Romeo let it happen) and why is this ironic?

Answer 25

“Thy beauty hath made me effeminate”

• This line is ironic because Romeo kills Tybalt a few moments later, so Romeo can be seen to have a steel, and not weak, heart.

Question 26

In Act 3 Scene 3, what does Romeo say that suggests that he thinks Banishment is worse than death

Answer 26

‘Banishment! Be merciful, say death’

Question 27

Give a moment from Act 3 Scene 3, that suggests that love makes people bold/brave

Answer 27

Romeo refuses to get up and hide when someone is heard knocking on the friars door. He says ‘not i’ after being asked to hide

Question 28

What is the effect of the one short sentence/word, ‘farewell.’, at the end of Act 3 Scene 3?

Answer 28

It highlights the fact that it will be the last time that the Friar sees Romeo

Question 29

Give two quotes, from Act 5 Scene 1, that uses situational irony

Answer 29

1. ‘some joyful news at hand’
2. ‘cheeful thoughts’
3. ‘breathed such life with kisses’

Question 30

What does Romeo say after hearing that Juliet is ‘dead’, in Act 5 Scene 1

Answer 30

‘I defy you stars’

Question 31

Give a quote, from Act 5 Scene 1, that shows how Romeo wanted the poison to act, when he drank it?

Answer 31

‘As violently as hasty powder fired’

Question 32

Give a quote, from the last scene, where Romeo’s violent nature is portrayed, and state the technique used here

Answer 32

‘I’ll tear thee joint by joint, and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs’

• personification

Question 33

Give a quote that indicates that Romeo had no initial intention of killing someone in the tomb + why may he have said this quote?

Answer 33

‘By heaven I love thee better than myself’

• he may feel that he is a sinner, and hates himself for it

Question 34

Give a quote, from Act 5 Scene 3, where Romeo shows sympathy after killing Paris

Answer 34

‘I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave’

Question 35

Give three quotes, from Act 5 Scene 3, where Romeo describes Juliets state in the tomb?

Answer 35

‘why art thou yet so fair’
‘Crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks
‘Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath’

Question 36

Give a quote that is linked to Juliets quote from Act 2 Scene 2, ‘follow thee my lord throughout the world’

Answer 36

‘I will stay with thee, and never…depart again’

Question 37

In Act 5 Scene 3, how does Romeo describe the stars?

Answer 37

‘inauspicious stars’