R & J - Act 3, Scene 4 and 5

​R & J - Act 3, Scene 4 and 5

​Key Quotation:

Beginning of Act 3, Scene 5

Juliet: Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

Romeo: It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Multiple Choice

Make an inference: What is the significance of the nightingale and the lark?

Juliet: Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; nightly she sings on yon pomegranate-tree. Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

• Juliet and Romeo want to use birds to send messages.

• The nightingale sings at night; the lark sings during the day.

• The birds represent their families.

Multiple Choice

Make an inference: What is the deeper meaning of Romeo and Juliet's discussion about larks and nightingales?

Romeo: It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

• The birds symbolize love.

• Juliet does not want Romeo to leave.

• The birds represent their families.

Multiple Choice

Besides the use of birds to symbolize night and day, what other figurative language is used below:

Romeo: It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

• personification, imagery

• simile

• onomatopoeia

Multiple Choice

In scene 5, Juliet's mother tells her "Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death as that the villain lives which slaughtered him" because . . .

• Juliet's mother believes Juliet is not upset about Tybalt's death.

• Juliet's mother believes Juliet is upset that Romeo has not been punished for killing Tybalt.

• Juliet's mother knows that Juliet loves Romeo.

• Juliet told her mother that she is married.

Multiple Choice

When Juliet's mother tells her "Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death as that the villain lives which slaughtered him," Juliet says in an ASIDE, "Villain and Romeo may be many miles asunder" (3.4.78).

What does this mean?

• Juliet's mother likes Romeo.

• Juliet's mother believes Romeo is a villain, and Juliet agrees with her.

• Juliet's mother believes Romeo is a villain, but Juliet does not.

• Juliet's mother hated Tybalt.

Multiple Choice

When Juliet's mother tells her "Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death as that the villain lives which slaughtered him," Juliet says in an ASIDE, "Villain and Romeo may be many miles asunder" (3.4.78).

What is the purpose for using an aside here?

• To inform Romeo of Juliet's true feelings.

• To inform Juliet's mother of Juliet's true feelings.

• To inform the audience of Juliet's true feelings.

• To inform Tybalt of Juliet's true feelings.

What is an aside?

•   A short comment made by a character that is heard only by the audience or another character, but is not heard by the other characters on stage. 

Multiple Choice

Juliet's conversation with her mother is an example of ___.

• allusion

• verbal irony

• dramatic irony

• situational irony

Multiple Choice

Dramatic irony is . . .

• when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected. 

• when a person says one thing and means another. 

•  when the reader knows something that a character does not know. 

Multiple Choice

Situational irony is . . .

• when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected. 

• when a person says one thing and means another. 

•  when the reader knows something that a character does not know. 

Multiple Choice

Verbal irony is . . .

• when the actual outcome of a situation is the opposite of what is expected. 

• when a person says one thing and means another. 

•  when the reader knows something that a character does not know. 

Multiple Choice

Juliet's father reprimands her for not obeying him and marrying Paris. The quotation below characterizes him as ____.

"If you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, for by my soul, I'll never acknowledge thee" (3.5.177).

• wise and understanding

• forgiving

• kind and friendly

• controlling and harsh

Multiple Choice

When Lord Capulet reprimands Juliet, the friend he is talking about is ____.

"If you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, for by my soul, I'll never acknowledge thee" (3.5.177).

• Lord Montague

• Romeo

• Paris

• the Friar

Multiple Choice

Juliet's father says, "If you be mine, I'll give you to my friend. And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, for by my soul, I'll never acknowledge thee" (3.5.177).

Why does he yell at Juliet?

• He knows that Romeo and Juliet are married.

• He thinks she is too old for marriage.

• His wife does not agree with him.

• He feels Juliet is ungrateful.

Multiple Choice

After her father yells at Juliet, the Nurse tells her, "I think it best you married with the count. I think you are very happy in this second match, for it excels your first" (3.5.232-235).

Choose the quotation below that shows Juliet's sarcastic reply:

• "Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much."

• "Go in, and tell my lady I am gone, having displeased my father, to Laurence's cell to make confession and be absolved."

• She is not sarcastic.

Multiple Choice

In the following quotation, INFER why Juliet tells the Nurse that her advice about marrying Paris has comforted her:

"Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much. Go in, and tell my lady I am gone, having displeased my father, to Laurence's cell to make confession and be absolved" (3.5.232-235).

• She is angry at the Nurse because she wants to marry Paris.

• She is being sarcastic because she does not want to marry Paris.

• She is thankful because she does not want to marry Paris.

• She is apathetic.

Multiple Choice

Just before Romeo leaves, Juliet has a premonition: "I'll to the friar to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die" (3.5.240).

Which type of figurative language is this?

• metaphor

• allusion

• foreshadowing

• simile

Open Ended

Do you think the Capulets are good parents? Why?

Poll

POLL: The violence between the Capulets and the Montagues pushes Romeo and Juliet to get married in secret. Do you think they will regret it?

• Yes, they will learn their lesson.

• No, they will not change.

Poll

POLL: The violence between the Capulets and the Montagues pushes Romeo and Juliet to confide in the Friar and the Nurse instead of their parents. Do you think the Friar and the Nurse were wrong to help them get married in secret?

• Yes.

• No.