1. What sort of words describe Romeo?
What is his personality like?

2. What sort of words describe Juliet?
What is her personality like?

3. What sort of words describe Lord Capulet?
What is his personality like?

4. What sort of words describe Mercutio?
What is his personality like?

5. What sort of words describe Tybalt?
What is his personality like?

6. Why is the prologue important?

7. Why are there so many references to fate and destiny in the play?

8. "forswear it sight, for I never saw a true beauty 'til this night"
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

9. “for never was a story of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

10. “a plague on both your houses”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

11. “a rose by another name would smell as sweet”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

12. “a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

13. “does she not give us thanks? is she not proud?”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

14. “O! I am Fortune's fool!”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

15. “But, soft. what light through yonder window breaks
“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

16. “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

17. “these violent delights have violent ends”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

18. “I defy you stars!”
Who says this?
What does it mean?
What themes does it link to?
What is the writer suggesting?

19. Good poetry pairs The Manhunt Dulce et Decorum est
Given poem
Your choice
Why
The Manhunt
Dulce et Decorum est
Both focus on the trauma which soldiers go through, but from different perspectives.
Sonnet 43
The Soldier
Ultimate love of a person versus the ultimate sacrifice of themselves for their country (because they love it and are patriotic)
London
Living Space
The suffering of the poor in really bad conditions in London and in India

20. Both love their partners but demonstrate it in different ways
Good poetry pairs
Given poem
Your choice
Why
She Walks in Beauty
Cozy Apologia
Both love their partners but demonstrate it in different ways
As Imperceptibly as Grief
Afternoons
Feelings and people change as time moves on
Valentine
Sonnet 43
Both about power of love, but differences in how it affects people

21. How people’s lives and feelings change as time goes on
Good poetry pairs
Given poem
Your choice
Why
A Wife in London
The Manhunt
One never gets her husband back; the other does and he’s not the same man
Death of a Naturalist
Afternoons
How people’s lives and feelings change as time goes on
Hawk Roosting
Ozymandias
Both think they have unlimited power, but Ozymandias’ (Rameses II) influence fades over time

22. Except from The Prelude
Good poetry pairs
Given poem
Your choice
Why
To Autumn
Except from The Prelude
Both admire nature, but Prelude has an element of fear and isolation in the world
Mametz Wood
The Manhunt
How war has taken lives too young or has ruined lives for those still living

25. Romeo & Juliet – conflict extract from Act 1 Scene 1
Tybalt
What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.

26. Tybalt
What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?
Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.