Love, Tragedy, and Drama: An Introduction to Shakespeare — Test
Question 19 • English Language Arts 9
Read Juliet’s dialogue from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet . Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit of death and night, Together with the terror of the place, As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are pack’d; In this excerpt, the motif of night emphasizes Juliet’s fear that