Romeo and Juliet Study Guide

What does the Prologue to Act I of Romeo and Juliet foreshadow?

Are the characters Abram and Balthasar examples of flat or round characters?

Why does Romeo agree with Benvolio's plan to go to the Capulet party?

In Act 1 Scene 5 at the Capulet feast, how is Capulet a dramatic foil to Tybalt?

What obstacles to Romeo and Juliet's relationship are already apparent in Act 1?

What details about Montague make him a round character?

What makes Benvolio a round character?

What is the purpose of text aids?

Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet is mainly the Capulet - Montague family feud and what else?

What is the primary key to reading blank verse?

In Act 2, what does Friar Lawrence's agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet show about his character?

What character trait of Romeo is emphasized by the sociability of Benvolio and Mercutio in Act 2?

In Act 2, what are Benvolio and Mercutio concerned about the letter that has arrived at Romeo's father's house?

In Act 2, how does Benvolio serve as a foil for Mercutio?

In Act 2, what are the differences in attitudes towards love between Romeo and Friar Lawerence and Mercutio?

In Act 2, what makes Romeo's love for Juliet different from his love for Rosaline?

What is Act 2 mainly about?

What is blank verse?

What do the opening lines of Act 3 about the weather hint at or foreshadow?

What motivates Romeo to kill Tybalt in Act 3?

Why is Capulet so upset by Juliet's refusal to marry Paris in Act 3?

Why does Juliet lose trust in the Nurse at the end of Act 3?

What is a soliloquy?

What is a monologue?

What is an aside?

What choice is the central issue of Act 3?

What is a paraphrase?

When Paris comes at the beginning of Act 4 to discuss his sudden wedding plans with Friar Lawrence, why doesn't Friar Lawrence like the plans?

What makes Paris remarks at the beginning of Act 4 about Juliet's sorrow for the loss of Tybalt an example of dramatic irony?

What is Act 4 primarily about?

Which lines from Juliet's monologue in Act 4 (Two days before her wedding to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry Paris.), best predict the outcome of the play?

What is Friar Lawrence's role in dealing with Juliet?

In Act 4 Scene 2, what accounts for Juliet's modesty towards Paris that she describes to her father?

What do the lines in Scene 3 of Act 4 Juliet speaks before she takes the potion and after her mother and nurse have left predict?

What is Friar Lawrence's plan for Juliet?

How is Capulet's speech after the nurse discovers Juliet in bed on the day of the wedding in Act 4, an example of dramatic irony?

Which of Romeo's lines from his opening soliloquy of Act 5 hints at the outcome of the play?

In Act 5, what causes Friar Lawrence's important message to Romeo to go astray?

Where is the play set?

Who is the author of Romeo and Juliet?

Why is the peace at the end of the play a gloomy peace?

What knowledge or revelation springs from the suffering of the characters in the play?

What is the theme of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

Which of Romeo's character traits contributes to his downfall?

How would the Capulets and the Montagues describe the theme of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

What is the central idea of Act 5?

Why in the Prince's speech at the end of Act 5, when calls forward Capulet and Montague, does her refer to them as "enemies" instead of grieving fathers?

What is the most direct cause of Romeo and Juliet's death?

What does Romeo mean when he says to Paris in Act 5, "I love thee better than myself, for I come hither armed against myself."?

What causes Friar Lawrence to go to the churchyard in Act 5?

Why does Romeo decide in Act 5 to poison himself after he learns of Juliet's death?