Thursday, February 19, 2015

Comp Question for quiz

Why does Capulet decide to marry Juliet to Paris?

He believes that it will help Juliet get over Tybalt's death

What is the symbolism between the Lark and the Nightingale?

The lark means day and the nightingale means night. Romeo and Juliet can only be together at night, so the nightingale begins to represent a freedom to be together, and the lark means they have to be apart

List and explain one allusion.

there are a bunch to greek gods and whatfore, like the Cupid one when Romeo is sad because Rosaline will not go with him.

What does Romeo mean when he says, after killing Tybalt, "I am fortune's fool!"

He is saying that it was fated to happen, a way of showing the downfall being brought on by fate

List two foreshadows from Act III.

Juliet sees Romeo "As one dead at the bottom of a tomb"
Lady capulet wishes that "the fool be married to her grave" regarding romeo and  Paris

Why does Juliet use a bunch of oxymorons to talk about Rome in Act III scene ii lines 73-85?

To show his two-sidedness

How does Romeo betray Juliet in Act III.

By killing Tybalt and getting banished

Why didn't the Prince sentence Romeo to death?

Because he killed the man that killed his relative

Why is their no world without Verona's walls?
What is worse than Tybalt's death?  What does Juliet mean when she says "Romeo is banished - to speak that word is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet all slain all dead. Romeo is banished - there is no end, no limit, measure bound, in that word's death."

To say that Romeo is banished to her is like saying everyone is dead. It fills her with endless mourning and sadness

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