ROMEO AND JULIET
STUDY GUIDE
NAME:
TEST DATE:
CHARACTER IDENTIFICATION: You should be familiar with each character and
each character’s role in the play.
MONTAGUE
Romeo
Montague
Lady Montague
Benvolio
Mercutio
CAPULET
Juliet
Lady Capulet
Capulet
Tybalt
NEUTRAL
Friar Lawrence
Prince
Nurse
Paris
Nurse
SHAKESPEARE, POETRY, and VOCABULARY: Print copies of the PowerPoint
lectures from class (at MrDe.weebly.com). You will be given a word bank and
asked to identify terms/descriptions. A few vocabulary words will be on the test
as well. The activity of defining the words in class will be enough practice.
POSSIBLE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (These are sample questions; different
questions may be asked on the test):
 Explain three significant differences between the 1996 film and the play
read in class.
 How does Romeo doom himself at the end of the play?
 How is young love represented by Shakespeare?
 Why do the characters act on total impulse?
 How does Shakespeare represent fickleness?
 Describe the five act play using a plot triangle.
 Why are ALL of Romeo’s relationships important? How does this illustrate
the type of person Romeo is?
 What are the main reasons explaining the fight scene and the characters’
motivations?
QUOTE ANALYSIS:
 You must paraphrase each portion and explain its significance to the
play.
 You must also indicate the speaker and to whom he/she is speaking.
QUOTATIONS:
1. “This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
ROMEO AND JULIET
STUDY GUIDE
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.”
2. “'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name”
3. “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting: villain am I none;
Therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not.”
4. “Was Tybalt's dooms-day, whose untimely death
Banish'd the new-made bridegroom from the city,
For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.
You, to remove that siege of grief from her,
Betroth'd and would have married her perforce
To County Paris: then comes she to me,
And, with wild looks, bid me devise some mean”
5. “O, look! methinks I see my cousin's ghost
Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body
Upon a rapier's point: stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, I come! this do I drink to thee.”
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