| Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: Good faith! ’tis day:The county will be here with music straight,For so he said he would. [Music within.] I hear him near.Nurse! Wife! what, ho! What, nurse, I say!30Re-enter Nurse.Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up;I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already:Make haste, I say. [Exeunt.]35This scene is an example of dramatic irony used to create suspense since the audience knows that | the nurse will be unable to rouse Juliet. |
| Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar, All our whole city is much bound to him. Juliet: Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, To help me sort such needful ornaments 35As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? Lady Capulet: No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. Capulet: Go, nurse, go with her. We’ll to church to-morrow. [Exeunt JULIET and Nurse] This is an example of dramatic irony because the audience knows that | Juliet does not intend to follow through with the wedding. |
| Read the excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.Mercutio: A challenge, on my life.10Benvolio: Romeo will answer it.Mercutio: Any man that can write may answer a letter.Benvolio: Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared.Mercutio: Alas! poor Romeo, he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench’s black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?Why does Shakespeare include Mercutio’s teasing words? | to contrast the seriousness of Tybalt’s challenge |
| 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! How does Friar Laurence support the archetype of mentor in the excerpt? | by discouraging a hasty course of action |
| Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: A fair assembly: whither should they come?Servant: Up.Romeo: Whither?Servant: To supper; to our house.65Romeo: Whose house?Servant: My master’s.Romeo: Indeed, I should have asked you that before.Servant: Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry! [Exit.]In this excerpt, the servant is a comic figure because | he unknowingly invites his master’s enemies to join the feast. |
| Read the excerpt from Act III, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Tybalt: Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries 40That thou hast done me; therefore turn and draw Romeo: I do protest I never injur’d thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise, Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: And so, good Capulet, which name I tender 45As dearly as my own, be satisfied. Why is this an example of dramatic irony? | because Tybalt is unaware that Romeo has married a Capulet |
| 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 |
| 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 disapproves of their love. |
| Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.First Musician: Faith, we may put up our pipes, and be gone.105Nurse: Honest good fellows, ah! put up, put up, for, well you know, this is a pitiful case. [Exit.]First Musician: Ay, by my troth, the case may be amended.[Enter PETER.]Peter: Musicians! O! musicians, ‘Heart’s ease, Heart’s ease:’ O! an ye will have me live, play ‘Heart’s ease.’First Musician: Why ‘Heart’s ease?’Peter: O! musicians, because my heart itself plays ‘My heart is full of woe;’ O! play me some merry dump, to comfort me.110Second Musician: Not a dump we; ’tis no time to play now.Peter: You will not then?Musicians: No.Peter: I will then give it you soundly.First Musician: What will you give us?115Peter: No money, on my faith! but the gleek: I will give you the minstrel.How does this excerpt offer comic relief? | NOT by mocking the popular music of Shakespeare’s day |
| Which best describes dramatic irony? | An audience knows more about a situation than the characters involved. |
Suspense in Romeo and Juliet, Part 7
July 16, 2019