ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study notes Well Comprehensive

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ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study notes Well Comprehensive In which town is the play set? In what country do you suppose this town exists? ✔Ans✔ Verona italy How could knowing the deaths of... Romeo and Juliet are coming improve the play? ✔Ans✔ Builds up suspense and/or tension. Since the plot line was supposed to be a tragedy, but it is at first a comedy it throws the audience off because they will have forgotten that it was going to happen. It re-surprises them When Sampson says he will not "carry coals," what does he mean? What literary techniques is being used in this silly exchange between Sampson and Gregory? ✔Ans✔ He will not be insulted by capsules men. Puns are being used In Shakespearean times biting your thumb was... ✔Ans✔ An insult Is Benvolio a montague or capulet? ✔Ans✔ Montague Why doesn't lady capulet want her husband to get involved in the fight? ✔Ans✔ Because he is too old to fight How many times have the Capulets and Montagues had street fights recently? ✔Ans✔ Three times How has Romeo been spending his days recently? ✔Ans✔ Locked in his room being moody List three oxymorons Romeo uses to describe the conflict between his family and the Capulets. Then, explain how the family feud is oxymoronic in its nature. ✔Ans✔ Brawling love, loving hate, heavy lightness, serious vanity, bright smoke, cold fire, and sick healthIn your own words, we wrote Romeo speech about love in scene 1, lines 176-180, line by line. ✔Ans✔ Love brings me anger and griefs lie in my heat but when you try to help you are just making it worse Romeo is heartsick over a girl (it's not Juliet) who is not at all interested in Romeo. Name three of the ineffective romantic strategies Romeo has used in his attempt to woo this girl. ✔Ans✔ 1. Gold 2. Notes 3. Gifts Why doesn't this girl like Romeo? ✔Ans✔ She's a nun What does Benvolio tell Romeo to do in order to forget the girl who doesn't want him? ✔Ans✔ Benvolio tells Romeo to see other girls and to forget about her. Look at how there are so many other beautiful women out there What "suit" does Paris bring to Capulet in scene 2? ✔Ans✔ It's a legal marriage agreement to marry Juliet. How old is Juliet? What are her fathers thought about allowing her to marry? ✔Ans✔ Juliet is 13. Capulet, her father, won't be easily persuaded by Paris. Capulet thinks she's too young and needs to wait 2 more years before she gets married. Also Juliet has to agree to the marriage if it were to happen. [Show More]

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