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.
Read this line from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet.Is now the two hours’ traffick of our stage;
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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Read the sentence.Digestion is divided into four parts, ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet: Madam, I am not well. Lady Capulet: Evermore weeping for your cousin’s death?75What! wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears? And if thou couldst, thou couldst not make him live; Therefore, have done: some grief shows much of love; But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
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.
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.
Which are purposes of comic relief? Select 3 options.easing the tension an audience may be feelingproviding background information about charactersemphasizing the seriousness of the previous momentbalancing the mood of a serious drama through contrastoffering a complication to the rising action of a plot
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.
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Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Tut! man, one fire burns out another’s burning,One pain is lessen’d by another’s anguish;Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning;One desperate grief cures with another’s languish: 45Take thou some new infection to thy eye,And the rank poison of the old will die.
Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Friar Laurence: On Thursday, sir? the time is very short.Paris: My father Capulet will have it so;And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.5Friar Laurence: You say you do not know the lady’s mind:Uneven is the course, I like it not.Paris: Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,And therefore have I little talk’d of love;For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.10
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