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Romeo and Juliet
Test Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Lord Capulet | Juliet's father, protective |
| Lady Capulet | Juliet's mother |
| Juliet | only daughter of the rich Capulet |
| Tybalt | Prince of Cat, Juliet's cousin |
| Paris | kinsmen of the prince, wants to marry Juliet |
| Nurse | cares for Juliet |
| Peter | the nurse's servant |
| Abram | servant for the Montagues |
| Sampson | servant for the Capulets |
| Greogory | servant for the Capulets |
| Lord Montague | Romeo's father |
| Lady Montague | Romeo's mother, dies from grief |
| Romeo | Montague's only son |
| Benvolio | Romeo's cousin, peacemaker |
| Balthasar | Romeo's servant |
| Prince Escalus | ruler of Verona |
| Friar Lawrence | mentor to Romeo, marries Romeo and Juliet |
| Friar John | messenger who is to deliver the letter to Romeo |
| Apothecary | sells poison to Romeo |
| Mantua | setting where Romeo lives in exile |
| Verona | main setting of Romeo and Juliet |
| Mercutio | kinsman of the Prince, killed by Tybalt |
| "For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo." | Prince Escalus |
| “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” | Romeo |
| "No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir: but I bite my thumb sir. | Sampson |
| "O, I am fortune's fool!" | Romeo |
| "Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man." | Mercutio |
| “And then my husband (God be with his soul! ‘A was a merry man) took up the child. ‘Yea,’ quoth he, ‘dost thou fall upon thy face?..." | Nurse |
| “O, find him! give this ring to my true knight And bid him come to take his last farewell.” | Juliet |
| “What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.” | Tybalt |
| “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? | Juliet |
| “A plague o’ both your houses! I am sped.” | Mercutio |
| “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” | Juliet |
| “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.” | Juliet |
| “Therefore love moderately: long love doth so.” | Friar Laurence's philosophy of love |
| “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books.” | Romeo's philosophy of love |
| “If love be rough with you, be rough with love.” | Mercutio's philosophy of love |
| “Love’s heralds should be thoughts.” | Juliet's philosophy of love |
| “But you shall bear the burden soon at night.” | the Nurse's philosophy of love |
| “She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow.” | describes Rosaline |
| “I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe. Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” | describes Romeo |
| “he’s a man of wax . . . Verona’s summer hath not such a flower.” | describes Paris |
| “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” | describes Juliet |
| “More than a Prince of Cats . . . he’s the courageous captain of compliments.” | describes Tybalt |
| “I talk of dreams; / Which are the children of an idle brain.” | describes Mercutio |