Enter your answer in the box.
Read this excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence : Too familiar 10 Is my dear son with such sour company: I bring thee tidings of the prince’s doom. Romeo : What less than doomsday is the prince’s doom? Friar Laurence : A gentler judgment vanish’d from his lips, Not body’s death, but body’s banishment. How does this complication contribute to the central conflict of the play?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence : Hence from Verona art thou banished. Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. 20 Romeo: There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself. Hence banished is banish’d from the world, And world’s exile is death; then ‘banished,’ Is death mis-term’d. Calling death ‘banished,’ 25 Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe, 40 And smil’st upon the stroke that murders me. Which statement best describes Romeo’s reaction to the news that he will be banished from Verona?
Read this excerpt from Act III, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet . Paris : These times of woe afford no time to woo. 10 Madam, good-night: commend me to your daughter. Lady Capulet : I will, and know her mind early to-morrow; To-night she’s mew’d up to her heaviness. Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not. Capulet : Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child’s love: I think she will be rul’d 15 In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not. How does this complication contribute to the central conflict of the play?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Friar Laurence : The law that threaten’d death becomes thy friend, And turns it to exile; there art thou happy: A pack of blessings light upon thy back; Happiness courts thee in her best array; 150 But, like a misbehav’d and sullen wench, Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love. Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable. Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed, Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her; 155 But look thou stay not till the watch be set, For then thou canst not pass to Mantua; Where thou shalt live, till we can find a time To blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends, Beg pardon of the prince, and call thee back 160 With twenty hundred thousand times more joy Than thou went’st forth in lamentation. Which statement best describes Friar Laurence’s reaction to Romeo’s banishment?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : And bring in cloudy night immediately. Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night! That runaway’s eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms, untalk’d of and unseen! Which words and phrases from the passage support the motif of darkness? Choose three correct answers.
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet . Juliet : Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow’d night, Give me my Romeo: and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine 25 That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish sun. In this excerpt, Shakespeare presents the motif of night as a
Read this excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet . Tybalt : Romeo, the hate I bear thee can afford No better term than this,—thou art a villain. 35 Romeo : Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee Doth much excuse the appertaining rage To such a greeting; villain am I none, Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not. Tybalt : Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries 40 That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw. What complication is introduced in the excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet . Romeo must leave because the sun is rising, and he cannot get caught with Juliet. Juliet : O! now be gone; more light and light it grows. Romeo : More light and light; more dark and dark our woes. How does Shakespeare use the motif of light?
Part 2 Which quotation from the play so far best supports the correct answer to Part 1?
Did you find these answers helpful?