Act 4

Question 1

cloth used to wrap a body for burial

Answer 1

shroud

Question 2

cheated; deceived; tricked

Answer 2

beguiled

Question 3

comfort; remedy

Answer 3

redress

Question 4

weaken; diminish

Answer 4

abate

Question 5

disobedient; willful

Answer 5

wayward

Question 6

reflective; introspective

Answer 6

pensive

Question 7

funeral humns or laments

Answer 7

dirges

Question 8

comfort or consolation in time of sadness

Answer 8

solace

Question 9

waken; bring out of sleep

Answer 9

rouse

Question 10

sad; melancholy

Answer 10

doleful

Question 11

revised; improved

Answer 11

amended

Question 12

lying flat with head down and arms outstretched as a sign of respect or worship

Answer 12

prostrate

Question 13

sorrowful; bleak

Answer 13

dismal

Question 14

formal, dignified ceremony

Answer 14

solemnity

Question 15

annoying; troublesome

Answer 15

pestilent

Question 16

necessary food and supplies

Answer 16

provision

Question 17

rapid pace; urgency of movement

Answer 17

haste

Question 18

attest; guarantee

Answer 18

warrant

Question 19

“That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.”

Answer 19

Paris’s confidence

Question 20

The arrangement of of events and details in a way that later events are anticipated beforehand.

Answer 20

foreshadowing

Question 21

• “So many guests invite as here are writ.*
• Sirrah, go hire me twenty cunning cooks.”*

Answer 21

Capulet’s concerns

Question 22

before

Answer 22

ere

Question 23

• “If, rather than to marry County Paris,*
• Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,*
• Then it is likely thou wilt undertake*
• A think like death to chide away this shame”*

Answer 23

Friar Lawrence’s plan

Question 24

• “I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night,*
• For I have need of many orisons*
• To move the heavens to smile upon my state,*
• Which well though knowest is cross and full of sin.”*

Answer 24

Juliet’s excuse to the Nurse

Question 25

demands; requests

Answer 25

behests

Question 26

• “Where I have learnt me to repent the sin*
• Of disobedient opposition*
• To you and your behests; and am enjoin’d*
• By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here,*
• To be your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.*
• Henceforth I am ever rul’d by you.”*

Answer 26

Juliet’s declaration

Question 27

a pledge; by my word

Answer 27

troth

Question 28

the repetition of words with no others in between - used for vehemence or emphasis

Answer 28

epizeuxis