| Romeo thinks that Juliet is dead because… | Balthasar tells him that Juliet is dead |
| Why does friar Laurence hurry to the Capulet’s tomb? | Reach Juliet before she wakes up; he know Juliet is about to wake up and Romeo won’t be there |
| Why is Paris at the cemetery? | He is bringing perfume and flowers to lay on Juliet’s tomb |
| When Paris sees Romeo, he says, “This is that banish’d haughty Montague / That murdered my love’s cousin—with which grief / It is supposed the fair creature died” (Scene 3, lines 49-51). This is an example of dramatic irony because | This is an example of dramatic irony because Paris does not know that the reason why Juliet died was because of Romeo not Tybalt’s death |
| What does Romeo beg Paris to do? | Leave him alone |
| When Romeo enters the tomb, he notices that Juliet | is still beautiful |
| Why does Friar Laurence leave Juliet alone in the tomb? | he is afraid of the guard |
| Juliet kisses Romeo in the tomb because she | She hopes that he has poison on his lips so that their kiss will kill her; she hopes there is still poison on his lips so that she can die |
| Why do Capulet and Montague stop their feud at the end of the play? | After lord Capulet his daughter and lord Montague his son, they realized that no more lives should be taking from this aging feud |
| The play ends with the following lines: “For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Shakespeare probably ends the play with a rhyme because he wants to | … |
| Describing the apothecary in Mantua, Romeo says, “Meager were his looks, / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones; / And in his needy shop a tortoise hung.” Why does Romeo choose such a poor apothecary? | The penalty for selling poison is death. Romeo chooses a poor apothecary who would be willing to risk the death penalty for money |
| In the final scene, Friar Laurence explains to everyone at the tomb what has happened. What evidence confirms his tale about Romeo and Juliet? | The letter Romeo wrote to his father and the Nurse can verify the story |
Romeo and Juliet Act 5
November 17, 2019