6 Week test.2 Flashcards
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non-fiction deals with real people, real experiences, and real ideas
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true
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Fiction deals with imaginary characters and events
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true
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some purposes of non-fiction are: to entertain, to inform, to explain, or to persuade
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true
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non- fiction writers often use description to paint a mental picture for the reader
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true
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non-fiction writers often use narration to tell about a series of events
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true
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non-fiction writers often use exposition to change people’s ideas or actions
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false
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an essay is a piece of poetic writing that gives a lengthy explanation of a topic
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false
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an essay is usually written from a very formal point of view
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false
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the word essay came from a french expression meaning I try
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true
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essays are usually about a dozen topics which are called standardized topics
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false
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a writer’s style deals with the way he or she uses language and arranges their ideas
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true
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one should ask how elements of style work together to convey the author’s meaning
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true
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it is often a good habit to read an essay more than once
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true
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in some essays, the author will use evidence to support his or her ideas
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true
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an essay about a difficult time as a girl adapting to a new culture
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santha rau
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compared a warm Christmas to a cold Christmas
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Jeanne Houston
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describes the development of her career as a writer
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Sandra Cisneros
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her mother’s death and how the family reacted to it
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dorothy west
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described its writer’s experience with foods and showed how her attitude became more mature
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Brenda Peterson
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praised Rachel Carson for her book on improving the environment
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Geoffrey Norman
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describes the beauties and the dangers of the Mississippi River
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Mark Twain
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described the gradual death of a tree and what resulted later
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Edward Teale
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his terrible work situation as a boy
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Charles Dickens
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compared an ignorant boy with an informed adult who now loved his culture
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Harry Petrakis
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uses chronological order and spatial progress, and then describes emptiness and usefulness
the Death of a Tree
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uses an anecdote, an allusion to a fairy tale, personal experiences, and allusion again
straw into gold
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uses a problem, one who helped address the issue, a solution, a quotation from a book
The flight of rachel carson
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uses a gift to introduce the topic, gives many personal experiences, and repeats its theme
growing up game
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uses a family situation, realizations, and something still mysterious
my mother, rachel west
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uses an analogy comparing reading a river to reading a book
Life on the mississippi
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uses a powerful personal experience and then compares it to past personal experiences
a taste of snow
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uses description of a workplace, description of strong feelings, and description of various food shops
dickens' autobiography
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uses a name change, an explanation, some cultural differences, and recalls the name again
by any other name
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uses an incident of a boy with an adult and later tells how the adult had influenced him
a whole nation and a people
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Peterson grew up eating
wild game
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when peterson ate a hamburger she felt
disappointed
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when one really thinks about the eating of game and the sacrifice involved, they also think about their own
mortality
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Peterson's father once refused to eat
a pet lamb
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Rachel West was a mother who was
domineering
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Rachel West was a person who
laughed much
loved children
never gave up without trying
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Rachel West died with
her secrets
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the child confronted snow with
twirling and dancing
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In California, people on Christmas Day
showed off their gifts
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Rau and her sister went to a school run by
the British
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The only new thing that Santha learned was about
an apple
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Premila was offended because her teacher said that
Indians cheated
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With what was Barba Nikos hit on the cheek?
a plum
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To pay for his crime, the boy had to work
for 5 hours
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the grocer linked various foods to people such as
Alexander the Great
Achilles
Zeus
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What food did the author remember 30 years later that the grocer had given to him as a gift?
figs
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What was done in the name of public health to rid places of insects
airplanes sprayed deadly chemicals to kill them
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the name of Rachel Carson's book was
Silent Spring
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it took carson _____ to write the book and it had _______ pages of sources
4 years
| 50
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What birds began to flourish again after Carson's book
the pelicans
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the death of a tree
starts at the top from the outside
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the person who actually cut the tree down was
the writer's grandfather
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for a great tree death comes as a gradual transformation is
the thesis
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cisneros was challenged by her french friends to make
tortillas
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what did cisneros inherit from her father
a love of wandering and a sappy heart
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an important event in cisneros' family was
moving into a permanent home
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with a little ______, the straw of one's experiences can be spun into gold
imagination
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the place where Dickens worked
blacking warehouse
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2 boys who worked with Dickens
Bob and Paul
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Dickens said that he spent most of his income on
food
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Who did Dickens resent for wanting him to continue his job rather than go to school?
his mother
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when twain learned the language of the river
he lost the ability to see the river's beauty
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what group of people did Twain pity
doctors
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a brief story about an interesting or humorous incident
anecdote
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talking about an object as if it were a living person
personification
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an extended point-by-point comparison between two things
analogy
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the attitude a writer takes toward his subject and how is it revealed
tone
| by diction or choice of words
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the title of a page or section is always centered
true
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a period comes before the parenthesis that indicates the source
f
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when one cites a book, the page number should also be put in the parenthesis
t
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the entries on the works cited page should be numbered
f
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the second and third lines of entries on the work cited page should be indented
t
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putting the url to a website is sufficient as an entry on the works cited page
f
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3 facts from Homer
Homer may have been a group of people, not one man
Blind
from the island of Chios
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3 characteristics of ancient Grecian religion
12 god
each city had its own god
sacrifices and rituals performed
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2 similarities between grecian and christian
both wanted truth
| both served at least one god
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2 differences between grecian and christian
monotheistic vs. polytheistic
| variance among diff cities
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which country was not listed as having a rich dramatic tradition
denmark
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who was not an ancient playwright
Aeschylus
Euripides
Socrates
Sophocles
Socrates
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the type of drama that comes from a greek word meaning goat song
tragedy
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what subtype of tragedy was given in the textbook
domestic
heroic
Shakespearean
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a type of comedy which depends on an improbably situation and exaggerated characters is called a
farce
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stage directions, sound effects, soliloquies, and asides are called
the conventions of drama
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the dramatist's most important device for presenting character and progression is
dialogue
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when one is reading a play, he or she should note
the actor's actions
setting
situation
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which was not given as a practice when one is reading a play
anticipate action
try to determine theme
be alert to tone shifts
determine the character with most action
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determine the character with most action
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mozart and the gray steward was written by
wilder
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who was the enemy of mozart
Salieri
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the visitor who enters into mozart's home is dressed in
gray silk
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the prince would pay Mozart how much for his piece
400 crowns
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the one condition was that Mozart
must take no credit
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mozart tells the steward to return in
august
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Mozart describes the prince's wife as having
black teeth
red cheeks
60 years
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For whom did MOzart say he would write the Requiem
himself
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Mozart says that death carries no perfumed
handkerchief
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what does mozart say after the steward says he is to write his requiem
forgive me
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what was mozart's final request
to live longer
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who wrote the marriage proposal
anton chekhov
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who wrote visit to a small planet
gore vidal
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who wrote thunder on sycamore street
reginald rose
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what is satire
a literary work that points up or attacks follies or vices in human nature
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exposition
the part of the play that provides the audience with important information
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foil
a character who serves as a contrast for another character
107
blank verse
unrhymed iambic pentameter
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heroic couplet
a pair of rhymed lines of iambic pentameter
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soliloquy
spoken aloud by a person alone on a stage
110
monologue
virtually uninterrupted speech with others on the stage
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aside
short remark usually directed to the audience and not to be heard by others on stage
112
what did shakespeare write
38 plays
154 sonnets
+
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life span
1564-1616
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what was Shakespeare's nickname
bard
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were plays considered art
no
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what kind of staging was used
no scenery or lighting
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why did people go hear a play
not much to look at
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actresses?
women played by boys
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what kind of english did shakespeare use - oddities
Elizabethan English
pirate english
spelling and punctuation not standardized
2 for S, J and I, U and V
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What makes Shakespeare's language different?
poetry messed it up, in addition to old referencees
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Romeo and Juliet origin
french story from Italian story from folklore
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ways Shakespeare improved plots
dramatized and added character depth
| poetic language
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how are shakespeare's plays classified
histories, comedies, tragedies
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how many lines in a sonnet
14
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When Arthur gets home, Phyllis immediately tells him to replace a blown fuse on the oven
false
126
Mr. Harkness is Phyllis's father
t
127
Arthur is a bank clerk
f
128
Arthur rebels against Phyllis by turning off the phonography which is playing dance music
t
129
mr. harkness is 62
t
130
Phyllis says that Joseph Blake went to prison for 4 years
t
131
Arthur tells Phyllis the plan is ugly
t
132
Mr. Carson fusses at arthur for being out
f
133
phyllis tells arthur the neighbors will turn on them for not standing with them
t
134
arthur decides to stay home
f
135
Who tries to conjure up Romeo
Mercutio
136
Who is compared to the sun, stars, and daylight
Juliet
137
Who says that Romeo should change his name
Juliet
138
WHo keeps interrupting Juliet's speeches
nurse
139
what time does romeo want juliet to sent for him
9 am
140
who understands herbs, plants, and flowers with their possibilities as drugs
Friar Lawrence
141
Who thinks Romeo spent the night with Rosaline
Friar Lawrence
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what does romeo want friar lawrence to do
marry he and juliet
143
tybalt is called the prince of cats
t
144
tybalt is going to challenge romeo to a duel
t
145
when the nurse enters she says that she is seeking mercutio
f
146
romeo tells the nurse to tell juliet to meet him that afternoon at the bell tower
f
147
juliet says the nurse has been gone 1 hr
f
148
nurse tells juliet romeo is not a perfect gentleman
t
149
nurse rarely complains about aches and pains
f
150
nurse forgets to deliver romeo's message to juliet
f
151
friar lawrence is concerned the marriage won't last
t
152
friar lawrence said the wedding ceremony won't take long
t
153
what 2 ppl begin act 3?
benvolio and mercutio
154
what does tybalt call romeo
a villain
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what does mercutio call tybalt
ratcatcher
156
what did tybalt remind mercutio and tybalt about
the prince forbid feuding on pain of death
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what happens to mercutio
tybalt killed him
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what happened to tybalt
romeo killed him
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what does the prince ask benvolio
who started it
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what will happen to romeo if he is in verona
he will be killed
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who tells juliet the news of the day
nurse
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what literary device is fiend angelic
oxymoron
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who could juliet not speak ill of
romeo
164
what is juliet going to cry for
romeo's banishment
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what does the nurse tell juliet she will do at end of scene 2
find romeo and give him j's ring
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who told romeo of his punishment
friar lawrence
167
who doesn't have ears - friar lawrence
madmen
168
what does the nurse say j is doing
weeping for r
169
where is romeo going to flee
mantua
170
what revives romeo
juliet's ring
171
when was the marriage originally planned
thurs
172
juliet said the light in the sky was
a meteor
173
Lady C calls r
a villain
174
who explodes when he learns J doesn't want to marry P
C
175
J asks for advice, and nurse says
marry P
176
potion that J drinks makes her appear dead for how long
42 hrs
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FL plans that J will do what when R returns
escape to Mantua
178
When J says she'll marry P, C says
the couple will marry wed
179
how does j feel about potion
does it, but hesitant
180
who finds j
nurse
181
act 4 ends
Peter talking to musicians
182
three civil brawls of an airy word
prince
183
let 2 more summers wither in their pride
C
184
who is already sick and pale with grief
R
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What's in a name? that which we call a rose
J
186
in one respect I'll thy assistant be
fL
187
stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops
R
188
is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed
J
189
hold, daughter, I do spy a kind of hope
FL
190
death lies on her like an untimely frost
C
