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Romeo and Juliet
Act 1 Scenes 4 + 5
Directions:
A. Answer the question on the line provided
B. Write a quote from the play that proves your answer, person who said it, the
quote and page number.
1. Romeo thinks his soul is made of this heavy metal? What kind of figurative
language is this?
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Quote:_________________________________________________________________________________
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Meaning: _____________________________________________________________________________
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2. What does Mercutio think Romeo should borrow to make him feel better? What
kind of figurative language is this?
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3. What does Romeo say that leads us to believe this night will go badly?
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Act 1 Scene 6
4. According to Lord Capulet, what foot ailment does any lady who won’t dance
at his party have?
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5. Who first discovers that Romeo and his friends are at the masquerade ball?
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Quote:__________________________________________________________________________________
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6. How does Lord Capulet respond to this person’s complaints about Romeo?
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7. According to Romeo, how is Juliet a teacher?
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Meaning: _____________________________________________________________________________
8. According to Romeo, what has he experienced for the first time this night?
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How is this ironic? What is the meaning? ___________________________________________
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9. What do both Romeo and Juliet find out too late about each other?
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Romeo and Juliet
Act 1 Scenes 4 + 5
Directions:
A. Answer the question on the line provided
B. Write a quote from the play that proves your answer, person who said it,
the quote and page number.
Scene 4
1. Romeo thinks his soul is made of this heavy metal. What kind of figurative
language is this?
Answer:_
Lead (Metaphor and Hyperbole). It can also be considered a pun. Romeo
says his friends have dancing shows with nimble soles. And he (Romeo) has a soul of
lead.
Quote:
Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes, With nimble soles:
I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.
Meaning: Romeo has a soul of lead which is a metaphor and means that he is sad
because of his unrequited love for Rosaline. Of course his friends have dancing
shoes with nimble soles which is personification and means that they are happy
and in a partying mood.
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2.
What does Mercutio think Romeo should borrow to make him feel better?
What kind of figurative language is this?
Answer: Cupid’s Wings. This is an allusion to Roman mythology. Cupid (Eros in
Greek Mythology)
Quote:
You are a lover; borrow Cupid's wings,
And soar with them above a common bound
Meaning: Mercutio is advising Romeo to borrow Cupid’s wings and
metaphorically soar above his depression for the unrequited love of Rosaline. He
should use these wings to search for other beautiful girls.
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3. What does Romeo say that leads us to believe this night will go badly?
I fear, too early: 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.
Meaning: Romeo has dad a dream that someone is going to die before the night
has finished. No one actually dies that night, but the next day several people
will, namely Mercutio and Tybalt.
Page Number: ______
Scene 5
4.
According to Lord Capulet, what foot ailment does any lady who won’t dance
at his party have?
Answer: Corns
Quote: Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all
Will now deny to dance? she that makes dainty,
She, I'll swear, hath corns; am I come near ye now?
Page Number: _____
5. Who first discovers Romeo and his friends at the masquerade ball?
Answer: Tybalt, Capulet’s nephew.
Quote: This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
It fits, when such a villain is a guest:
I'll not endure him.
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6. How does Lord Capulet respond to this person’s complaints about Romeo?
Answer:_________________________________________________________________________________
Quote: 1) Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone;
He bears him like a portly gentleman;
And, to say truth, Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-govern'd youth:
2) He shall be endured:
What, goodman boy! I say, he shall: go to;
Am I the master here, or you? go to.
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7. According to Romeo, how is Juliet a teacher?
Quote: “She doth teach the torches to burn”
Meaning: She is hot (very beautiful). She is so hot that she is hotter than the
torches. (Implied Hyperbole) In fact she teaches them to burn. This personifies
the torches. They can be taught. This the first time that Romeo metaphorically
compares Juliet to the light.
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8. According to Romeo, what has he experienced for the first time this night?
Quote: Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
" I never saw true beauty until tonight.”
How is this ironic? What is the meaning? How is this ironic?
He is supposed to be madly in love with Rosaline. However, he realizes that this
has only been puppy love and not the real thing.
9. What do both Romeo and Juliet find out too late about each other?
Answer: That they are both children of their family’s enemy.
Quote from Romeo: Is she a Capulet?
O dear account! my life is my foe's debt.
Quote from Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth of love it is to me,
That I must love a loathed enemy.
Analysis: This is indeed a paradox. The only man she has ever loved is from the
family that she was born to hate. His family is the enemy of her family. Another
paradox is that even though she knows that she is supposed to hate Romeo, it is
too late because she is already deeply in love with him.