| A | B |
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| Dramatic Irony | when the audience knows important information that is not known by relevant characters |
| aside | a short speech (or comment) suposedly unheard by other characters on stage |
| monologue | a long speech when a character is addressing other characters or the audience |
| soliloquy | a long speech when a character is talking to himself |
| drama | a work of narrative literature meant to be performed live |
| tragedy | a dramatic work of literature taht ends in death or tragedy caused by a tragic flaw |
| tragic flaw | a flaw in a character's personality that causes their death or downfall |
| Apothecary | one who sells poison/drugs |
| blank verse | type of poetry, distinguished by having a regular meter, but no rhyme. Iambic pentameter |
| fate | destiny, your life is controlled by a force stronger than you |
| Setting of the play | Verona |
| Where Romeo lives after being banished | Mantua |
| “'0 Romeo, Romeo' Wherefore (WHY) art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name." | S: Juliet Context: She is speaking to herself. Wondering why the only man she loves is from her rival family. M: She wishes they could refuse their last names so that they could be together |
| Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!/ This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die.” | S: Juliet C: She has heard noise, after discovering Romeo died. Takes Romeo’s dagger M: I am going to take my life rather than face “the music”. Let me die with my lover. |
| "Death that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,/ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” | S: Romeo C: Looking at all the dead bodies in the tomb M: Your beauty cannot be touched, even my death (man, you look good for a deadperson). |
| "Is it e'en so? Then I defy you stars!/ Thou knowest my lodging. | S: Romeo C: Balthfsar told Romeo his wife Juliet is dead M: Romeo is going to kill himself. I will buy poison and go against the stars |
| Before Juliet drinks the Friar’s Potion… | 4 specific things: 1. What if it doesn’t work? (I’ll use the knife as a back up plan). 2. What if this potion is a poison? What if the Friar is trying to kill me to cover up the secret marriage (Then again, he is a man of God, he probably won’t kill me). 3. What if I wake up too early, before Romeo gets there. If no one is there, I may suffocate. 4 Will I grab the bones of some dead rotting body and smash my brains out. What if I just go freakin CRAZY!! What if I go freakin NUTS!?! |
| “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” | S: Romeo C: At the party when he 1st sees Juliet M: is hot!!!!!!! Teaches fire how to burn (somewhere, Megan Fox is jealous) |
| “Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day./ It was the nightingale, and not the lark” | S: Juliet C: Romeo and Juliet have just spent their wedding night together M:Juliet Wishing Romeo could stay and be with her longer, wishing it was still night (forever) |
| "I could not send it - here it is again-/ Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,/ So fearful | S: Friar John C: Telling Friar Lawrence that he couldn’t get the message to Romeo M: couldn’t tell Romeo of your plan, Romeo has no idea what is going on with Juliet |
