| A poem with fourteen lines and a mixed rhyme scheme is a | sonnet |
| Which of Juliet’s lines best shows that she understands Romeo’s identity? | My only love sprung from my only hate! |
| Read these lines spoken by Nurse and Lady Capulet in 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.These lines allow the reader to see Nurse’s | sense of humor |
| Read the dialogue from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?Tybalt: Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;A villain that is hither come in spite,To scorn at our solemnity this night.Capulet: Young Romeo, is it?Tybalt: ‘Tis he, that villain Romeo.Capulet: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone:He bears him like a portly gentlemanWhich best describes the relationship between Tybalt and Capulet? | Tybalt is Capulet’s nephew. His short-tempered personality provides a foil to the calmer Lord Capulet. |
| Impulsive, emotional Romeo acts as a character foil for | Paris, who is stable yet dull. |
| Read the lines from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.Romeo: O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.Shakespeare uses the structure of these lines to develop | Romeo’s character as he persuades Juliet to kiss him. |
| Which pair of characters have a relationship based on caregiving? | Nurse and Juliet |
| Read the lines from 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 standTo 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.Which statement about the structure of these lines is true? | Romeo’s lines make up one quatrain, which uses an abab rhyme scheme. |
| Read the lines from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.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.Juliet: You kiss by the book.Shakespeare uses the structure of these lines to | demonstrate the playful affection of a new relationship. |
| When Romeo and Juliet first meet in Act I, scene v, a sonnet structure is used because | the sonnet shows their romantic connection. |
Characters and Conflict in Romeo and Juliet, Part 3
July 26, 2019