2024 RJ UNIT

What purpose does the prologue serve in the text?

• It updates the audience on the current state of the feud.

• It informs the audience of past and future events in the play.

• It discusses the reasons behind why the two families hate each other.

• It outlines the themes of the play by describing them.

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PART2 A: Which statement best describesthe theme when Romeo is willing to get caught by juliet's family on the balcony?

• Love makes people more willing to change and face obstacles.

• Children should be obedient and not go against their parents' wishes.

• Grudges are easy to overcome, to forgive, and to forget.

• People's fates are set in stone and cannot be changed.

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PART 2B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?

• From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life (Lines 5-6)

• 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 (Lines 9-11)

• What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, / Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part / Belonging to a man. (Lines 22-24)

• Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd; / Henceforth I never will be Romeo. (Lines 33-34)

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How does Juliet's monologue in the lines above affect Romeo?

• He is shocked by her insistence that he give up his name.

• He regrets being a Montague but resigns himself to being apart from Juliet.

• He is willing to give up his family name in order to be with her.

• He falls more in love with her and convinces her to marry him.

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"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be

Ere one can say it lightens"

How do Juliet's words connect to the Prologue?

• The Prologue tells the audience that two households are involved in the story. Here, Juliet questions whether a contract between the two households is possible.

• The Prologue tells the audience that the couple is doomed. Here, Juliet predicts that the romance is not truly joyful because it is dangerous and cannot last.

• The Prologue says that a couple will end the bitterness between two sets of parents. Here, Juliet expresses her joyful feelings for Romeo, which will end the feud.

• The Prologue tells the audience about an ancient grudge. Here, Juliet worries her romance with Romeo is moving too quickly and that the families will need more time to heal.

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"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; (lines 10–12)"

Which of the following is a paraphrase of the excerpt using modern-day speech SELECT TWO (2)?

• The fighting between the parents continues, which nothing but their children’s death can stop, is the action of the next two hours on our stage.

• The subject of our two-hour play is the continuing rageful feud between these two sets of parents, which only their children’s death ends.

• Only the end of the fighting parents' children’s lives ends the parents fighting, we will show you in two hours.

• In the next two hours, our play shall show how the parents would continue to rage at each other if their children had not killed each other.

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Part 7A: What is revealed about Romeo's character and his choice to attend the Capulet party?

• Romeo is ignorant and wants to lift his sad spirits.

• Romeo is brave and faces his fate without hesitation.

• Romeo is desperate and wants to get over his feelings for Rosaline.

• Romeo is rash and sneaks into a party at the home of his family's rival.

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Part 7B: Which two lines from the excerpt support the answer to Part A?

• bitterly begin his fearful date this night's revels

• I talk of dreams which are the children of an idle brain

• expire the term of a despisèd life

• but he that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail

• I fear too early for my mind misgives some consequence

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Which of the following quotes from Act I, Scene iv foreshadows future action in the play?

• Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down, Give me a case to put my visage in: A visor for a visor!..."

• Romeo: "A torch for me! let wantons light of heart Tickle the senseless rushes with their heels, For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase: I'll be a candleholder and look on. The game we ne'er so fair, and I am dun."

• Mercutio: "I mean, sir, in delay We waste our lights in vain, like lights by day. Take our good meaning, for our judgment sits Five times in that, ere once in our fine wits."

• Romeo: "For my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars. Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this night's revels, and expire the term Of a despised life closed in my breast. By some vile forfeit of untimely death."

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“She hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in

an Ethiop’s ear”

• Simile

• pun

• personification

• metaphor

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