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WorksheetsAct IV & V Quiz (Romeo and Juliet)
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 24mins
How do Juliet's parents react to her "death" the morning of her wedding to Paris?
distant and don't seem to care one way or the other
happy that they got their wish that she would die
upset and sad that their only daughter is dead
mad and annoyed that their daughter drank poison
What news does Balthasar bring to Romeo?
Juliet is on her way to Mantua
Friar Lawrence's plan
Juliet is marrying Paris today
Juliet is dead
Who is near the Capulet tomb and tries to arrest Romeo in the final scene of the play?
Paris
Friar
Prince
Lord Capulet
The following lines are spoken by Juliet to the Friar when she goes to him for help after her parents tell her she has to marry Paris. What literary device do you see?
"O, shut the door! And when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help" (IV.i.45-46).
Modern Day Version: "Oh, shut the door, and after you shut it, come over here and weep with me. This mess is beyond hope, beyond cure, beyond help!" (IV.i45-46).
Simile
Hyperbole
Imagery
Oxymoron
The following lines are spoken by Capulet when he sees Juliet "dead." What literary devices do you see?
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field" (IV.v.29-30).
imagery
simile
alliteration
personification
The following lines are spoken by Romeo when he asks to buy poison from the pharmacist. What literary device do you see?
"Let me have a dram of poison...
That the life-weary taker may fall dead...
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb" (V.i.61-67).
Modern Day version: "Let me have a shot of poison, something that works so fast that the person who takes it will die as fast as gunpowder exploding in a canon" (V.i.61-67).
imagery
oxymoron
personification
simile
The following lines are spoken by Juliet when she's about to take her own life. What literary device do you see?
"O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die" (V.iii.82-83). (See the picture above to know what a sheath is.)
Modern Day version: "Oh, good, a knife! My body will be your sheath. Rust inside my body and let me die" (V.iii.82-83).
imagery
simile
metaphor
personification
