In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is an antagonist because he is a | contrary character who creates conflict. |
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.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. How long is it now 20To Lammas-tide? Lady Capulet: A fortnight and odd days. Nurse: Even or odd, of all days in the year,Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.The nurse can be viewed as a comic figure in the excerpt because of her | roundabout answer. |
Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: We met we woo’d and mad eexchange 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! How does Friar Laurence support the archetype of mentor in the excerpt? | by discouraging a hasty course of action |
Which best describes dramatic irony? | An audience knows more about a situation than the characters involved. |
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Lady Capulet: But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Juliet: Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss. 80Lady Capulet: So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: Which you weep for. Juliet: Feeling so the loss, I cannot choose but ever weep the friend. Lady Capulet: Well, girl, thou weep’st not so much for his death, 85As that the villain lives which slaugher’d him. Juliet: What villain, madam? Lady Capulet: That same villain, Romeo. Juliet: [Aside.] Villain and he be many miles asunder. God pardon him! I do, with all my heart; 90This an example of dramatic irony because | Lady Capulet does not understand that Juliet is crying for Romeo. |
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s, 70Sups the fair Rosaline, whom thou so lov’st,With all the admired beauties of Verona:Go thither; and, with unattainted eyeCompare her face with some that I shall show,And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.Benvolio is a comic figure in this excerpt because he | Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.makes light of Romeo’s heartache. |
Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Prince: Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio;Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe?Montague: Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio’s friend,155His fault concludes but what the law should end,The life of Tybalt.Prince: And for that offenceImmediately we do exile him hence:I have an interest in your hate’s proceeding,160My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding;But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fineThat you shall all repent the loss of mine.In this excerpt, the prince is an antagonist because he | banishes Romeo |
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, how do Romeo and Juliet fit the literary archetype of star-crossed lovers? Check all that apply. | They are in love.Their relationship is doomed.Their families disapprove of their love. |
Read the excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v.Romeo: O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.105Romeo: Then move not, while my prayers’ effect I take.Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg’d. [Kissing her.]Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d!Give me my sin again.This is an example of dramatic irony because | Romeo and Juliet have yet to discover that they are from feuding families. |
Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.20Mercutio: Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior Romeo, bon jour! there’s a French salutation to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.Romeo: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?Mercutio: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?How does Mercutio offer comic relief in this excerpt? | by refusing to treat Romeo’s romance seriously |
Suspense in Romeo and Juliet, Part 7
July 16, 2019