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Question 1 • Language Arts 9

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene vi of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Laurence: These violent delights have violent ends, And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. The purpose of the oxymoron and paradox used in this excerpt is to

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entertain using visions of love.
B
emphasize a point about love.
C
provide the definition of love.
D
describe what it feels like to love.
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Read the excerpt from Act II, scene vi of Romeo…