Act 3

Question 1

hypocrites; deceivers

Answer 1

dissemblers

Question 2

separate; apart

Answer 2

asunder

Question 3

meeting place; hangout area

Answer 3

haunt

Question 4

dead and rotting animal flesh

Answer 4

carrion

Question 5

departing from; deviating from

Answer 5

digressing

Question 6

a loose cloak or shawl, worn esp. by women

Answer 6

mantle

Question 7

out and about; away from home

Answer 7

abroad

Question 8

courage; bravery

Answer 8

valour

Question 9

overly bright; gaudy

Answer 9

garish

Question 10

fluent, articulate, and persuasive speech

Answer 10

eloquence

Question 11

displaying romantic love or desire

Answer 11

amorous

Question 12

to find fault with

Answer 12

chide

Question 13

detests; hates

Answer 13

abhors

Question 14

mirthful; cheerful; delightful

Answer 14

jocund

Question 15

refrain from; avoid

Answer 15

forbear

Question 16

exiled; deported

Answer 16

banished

Question 17

expression of sorrow; grief

Answer 17

lamentation

Question 18

unmanly; womanly

Answer 18

effeminate

Question 19

conflict; bitter disagreement

Answer 19

strife

Question 20

ordered; commanded

Answer 20

decreed

Question 21

“Go, counsellor; ; Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain.”

Answer 21

Juliet’s conclusion following the Nurse’s advice

Question 22

a long, usually serious speech made by a character in a play (or other composition) while the speaker is alone - delivered to the audience in order to reveal the character’s thoughts or give information that is essential for the audience to know

Answer 22

soliloquy

Question 23

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.”

Answer 23

an example of simile

Question 24

when the audience or reader understands the implication and meaning of a situation onstage (or in the work( and forsees the oncoming disaster or triumph, but the character(s) does not

Answer 24

dramatic irony

Question 25

light mockery or teasing banter

Answer 25

persiflage

Question 26

“Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of the tomb.”

Answer 26

Juliet’s foreboding imagery

Question 27

“He was born to shame: / Upon his brow shame is asham’d to sit; / For ‘tis a throne where honour may be crown’d / sole monarch of the universal earth.”

Answer 27

Juliet’s conclusion about her fears

Question 28

deliberate understatement for effect

Answer 28

litotes

Question 29

“I do protest I never injur’d thee, / But love thee better than though canst devise / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love; / And so, good Capulet - which name I tender / As dearly as mine own - be satisfied.”

Answer 29

Romeo’s unexpected declaration

Question 30

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined - as in the name of the term itself, which literally means “sharp dullness”

Answer 30

oxymoron

Question 31

“There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, / In that word’s death; no words can that woe sound.”

Answer 31

“Romeo is banished”

Question 32

“Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, ‘tis enough.”

Answer 32

Mercutio’s grave words

Question 33

“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling.”

Answer 33

an example of simili

Question 34

Juliet and Paris will be married on Thursday.

Answer 34

Capulet’s decision in scene 4

Question 35

• “Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!*
• Dove-feather’d raven! wolfish-ravening lamb!*
• Despised substance of divinest show!”*

Answer 35

Juliet voicing her fears at hearing the shocking news of Tybalt’s death