Characters Literary terms Quotes (6 total) Themes Plot

Juliet Apothecary Friar Laurence Friar John Romeo Paris

Five Act Structure: Purpose of Act VThe unraveling of complicated events; tragedy=senseless deaths and comedy= a ceremony (usually a wedding). The audience/characterswill learn something

Primary Setting:Verona, Italy

Time Period:16th Century

Literary Terms: Foreshadowing

Refers to hints in the text about what will occur later in the plot.

Examples: Romeo is having such a great day, he says

nothing could ruin his mood. (irony) Romeo says he will join Juliet in death

soon. Friar Lawrence’s letter doesn’t get sent. Lady Capulet expresses sorrow hinting

towards her death.

Literary Terms: Dramatic Irony When a character/audience

member knows information characters in the play are unaware of.

Examples: Balthasar tells Romeo about

Juliet’s death. Romeo doesn’t notice the crimson

in Juliet’s cheeks showing she is not pale and dead.

Literary Terms: Soliloquy: (three components)

1. a character is alone on stage 2. reveals inner thoughts and feelings 3. done in a lengthy speech Example: Romeo in Act V: ii He is saddened by Juliet’s death and

remembers an apothecary who is poor and has mortal drugs he may be willing to sell for the right price.

Act V Quotes (6 total)“Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight…/I do

remember an apothecary.”Romeo Act V: i

“Such mortal drugs, I have; but Mantua’s law/ Is death to any he that utters them.”

Apothecary Act V: I

Act V Quotes (cont.):“My poverty, but not my will, consent.”

Apothecary Act V: I

“Suspecting that we bother were in a house/ Where the infectious pestilence did reign,/ Seal’d up the doors and would not let us forth…”Friar John Act V: ii

Act V Quotes (cont.):

“Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!”

Juliet Act V: iii

“For never was a story of more woe/ Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”

Prince Escalus Act V: iii

Revenge:-Love:-Love at first sight-Taking risks/chances to encourage love

-Friar Lawrence-True love vs. infatuation

Definition of Fate:The universe, ordered world intervenes in the lives of people to create a destiny for them that they have no control (freewill) over.

Examples of Fate:-Balthasar happened to see the “burial” of Juliet and intervenes by giving “false” inforamtion to Romeo.-Romeo remembers an apothecary who was poor and would be willing to sell poisons illegally.-Friar John was wrongly quarantined and detained making him unable to deliver the news to Romeo.-Romeo not recognizing the signs of life in Juliet before he kills himself.