Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!Lady Capulet: A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?Capulet: My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,And flourishes his blade in spite of me.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.If ever you disturb our streets againYour lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
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;
Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Paris: Have I thought long to see this morning’s face,And doth it give me such a sight as this?
How do Juliet’s parents contribute to the catastrophe in Act IV, scenes iii-v of Romeo and Juliet?
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 honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite:Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire:The day is hot, the Capulets abroad,And, if we meet, we shall not ’scape a brawl;For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
In Act V, scene i of Romeo and Juliet, what role does the Apothecary play in the catastrophe?
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is an antagonist because he is a
Read this excerpt from Act III, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet. Paris: These times of woe afford no time to woo.10Madam, good-night: commend me to your daughter. Lady Capulet: I will, and know her mind early to-morrow; To-night she’s mew’d up to her heaviness. Therefore farewell; I see thou know’st me not. Capulet: Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child’s love: I think she will be rul’d15In all respects by me; nay, more, I doubt it not.
Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: O brother Montague! give me thy hand:This is my daughter’s jointure, for no moreCan I demand.Montague: But I can give thee more; For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
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 honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite: 15Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
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 honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite:Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo: We met we woo'd and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us to-day. Friar Laurence: Holy Saint Francis! what a change is here; Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,70So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesu Maria! what a deal of brine Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline; How much salt water thrown away in waste,75To season love, that of it doth not taste!
Romeo and Juliet’s final fate in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet represents which element of Shakespearean tragedy?
Read the excerpt from Act V, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!Thou know’st my lodging: get me ink and paper,And hire post-horses; I will hence to-night.Balthasar: I do beseech you, sir, have patience:Your looks are pale and wild, and do importSome misadventure.
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet: Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn120The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride. Juliet: Now, by Saint Peter’s church, and Peter too, He shall not make me there a joyful bride.125I wonder at this haste; that I must wed Ere he that should be husband comes to woo. I pray you, tell my lord and father, madam, I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear, It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,130Rather than Paris.
Read Friar Laurence’s dialogue from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.But he which bore my letter, Friar John,Was stay’d by accident, and yesternightReturn’d my letter back.
Which is an example of dramatic irony in Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet?
Which phrases from the passage are oxymorons? Select 2 options.
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