Which best defines a sonnet?
Read Romeo’s dialogue from Act V, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.How fares my Juliet? That I ask again;For nothing can be ill if she be well.
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Which lines are written in iambic pentameter? Select two options.The smoke of my own breathAnd what I assume you shall assumeI never saw a moorYet certain am I of the spotAnd summer's lease hath all too short a dateNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
Which element of a Shakespearean tragedy does the character of Paris represent in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet?
Read these lines from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
Contrast the characters in this excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Lady Capulet: This is the matter. Nurse, give leave awhile.We must talk in secret: nurse, come back again;I have remember’d me, thou’s hear our counsel.Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age.Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.Lady Capulet: She’s not fourteen.Nurse: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth—And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four—She is not fourteen.
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How many iambs per line does a Shakespearean sonnet contain?
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet. Tybalt: Romeo: One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun8Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun. Benvolio: Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd Your lady's love against some other maid85That I will show you shining at this feast, And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Capulet loves his daughter? Select 2 options.
Read the paragraph.As the names for the honor roll were announced, Omar heard his name. His posture straightened. He nodded and stifled a smile as his legs bounced a subtle beat beneath his desk. He closed his eyes briefly, silently willing himself to save his reaction for later.
Read the dialogue between the two main characters in Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: [To JULIET.] If I profane with my unworthiest handThis holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,Which mannerly devotion shows in this;For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
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