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Conflict Development in Romeo and Juliet, Part 6

Question 4 • NC-English Language Arts 9 CR

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,’25Thou cutt’st my head off with a golden axe,40And smil’st upon the stroke that murders me.

Answer
A
He shares his fear of a violent death.
B
He confesses his regret for his crime.
C
He expresses outrage about life without Juliet.
D
He voices gratitude for the merciful sentence.
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