| Read Romeo’s comment after killing Tybalt in Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: O! I am Fortune’s fool.Romeo’s statement foreshadows the fact that | the lovers have no control over their destinies. |
| Read the nurse’s words to Juliet from Act II, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Nurse: Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a virtuous,—Where is your mother?Juliet: Where is my mother! why, she is within;Where should she be? How oddly thou repliest:’Your love says, like an honest gentleman,Where is your mother?’Based on your knowledge of the characters, what does the nurse’s question most likely foreshadow? | that what the nurse is about to share may have very serious consequences |
| In Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt returns to the scene after he has killed Mercutio and fled. What motivates his return? | his hatred for the entire Montague family |
| 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.What motivates Benvolio to utter this warning? | his desire to avoid a fight |
| Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Mercutio: No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o’ both your houses! ‘Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death! a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.What is foreshadowed by Mercutio’s statement that tomorrow “you shall find me a grave man”? | Mercutio’s death |
| In Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet,________ motivates Mercutio to draw his sword on Tybalt when Romeo will not. | anger |
| Read the excerpt from Act II, scene v 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.Friar Laurence is motivated to offer this warning because he | wants to caution Romeo about the consequences of his actions. |
| Read the excerpt from Act II, scene v 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.The purpose of the oxymoron and paradox used in this excerpt is to | emphasize a point about love. |
| Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Mercutio: Help me into some house, Benvolio,Or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses!They have made worms’ meat of me: I have it,And soundly too:—your houses! [Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIO.]Which emotion most motivates Mercutio to speak these words? | his desire for revenge on both families |
| Read the excerpt from Act II, scene v 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.What do the oxymoron and paradox in this excerpt illustrate about love? | True love causes one to lose the ability to reason. |
Literary Devices in Romeo and Juliet, Part 5 Eng 2 answer keys
July 8, 2019