Prologue - Romeo and Juliet

Prologue - Romeo and Juliet

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Multiple Choice

What does this mean? Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

• Two houses were in Verona and they made a scene.

• Two families with the same social status both lived in Verona.

• There were two guys singing "No Diggity" in Verona.

• I have no idea.

Multiple Choice

What does this mean? From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

• An old fight started up again and regular people started killing each other.

• An old guy was holding a grudge and a nice person got dirty.

• There was a curse on the town and people were bleeding from their hands.

• I have no idea

Multiple Choice

What does this mean? From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;

• Spoiler alert! There's a sex scene under the stars!

• Spoiler alert! Kids from both families fall in love and then die by suicide!

• Spoiler alert! People started dressing in loin cloths and chasing each other at night

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Multiple Choice

What does this mean? Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

• The sad adventures of the kids kill the parents.

• The sad adventures of the kids end the parents' argument.

• The sad adventures of the kids aren't as important as the strife.

• I didn't pay attention to the lesson, okay?!

Multiple Choice

What does this mean? The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,And the continuance of their parents' rage,Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

• This play is about two hours long and it's about how nothing would make the parents stop fighting except the death of their kids.

• Spoiler alert! This turns into a Fast and Furious type story where there is rage and traffic and it is going to last about two hours.

• This play is going to be two hours long and is about people fighting even after the children are dead.

• I can't even.

Multiple Choice

What does this mean? The which if you with patient ears attend,What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

• If you have ears, you can come to the play.

• We are going to sew things up that are broken.

• If you listen patiently, we're going to explain whatever didn't make sense in this poem.

• If you listen to this play, your problems will be mended.

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Multiple Choice

Based on the Prologue, I can tell this play is going to mostly be

• About how to have a good romantic love

• About a tragic ending to a love story

• About fighting

• About putting on a play