Romeo and Juliet, Act IV

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In Act IV of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, what is the true reason Friar Lawrence does not encourage Paris in his plan to marry Juliet?

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Juliet is already married to Romeo.

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What important detail about the Friar from earlier in the play is more meaningful in Act IV?

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He is an expert in medicinal uses of plants

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lamentable

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regrettable

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Which situation describes someone acting extremely distressed?

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She paced up and down the room, wringing her hands and crying softly to herself.

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melancholy

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sad

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What is the true cause of Juliet's sadness in Act IV, Scene i, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet?

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Juliet loves Romeo and does not want to marry Paris.

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Which line from Act IV best supports the idea that Juliet acts apologetically (sorry) when she comes home from seeing the Friar?

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Juliet. Where I have learnt me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your behests, and am enjoined / By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here / To beg your pardon….

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Which of these quotations from Juliet’s speeches in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IV, is an example of dramatic irony? Nurse, will you go with me into my closet / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?, How if, when I am laid into the tomb, / I wake before the time that Romeo / Come to redeem me?, O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, / Environèd with all these hideous fears, / And madly play with my forefathers’ joints?, God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands ….

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Nurse, will you go with me into my closet / To help me sort such needful ornaments / As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?

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Why is Friar Lawrence's line "Come, is the bride ready to go to church?" in Act IV, Scene v, of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet an example of dramatic irony?

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The other characters think Friar Lawrence means what he says, but the audience knows he does not.

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Latin root -stress-

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to draw tight