Act 4 Test Prep Flashcards
A fault state
Slander
Not moderate; not a good amount; not extreme or excessive
Immoderate
Prolong postpone
Prorogue
A burial vault
Charnel house
A garment wrapped around a dead body
Shroud
To discontinue or end
Surcease
Family
Kindred
To lessen
Abate
To order to command
Behest
To face down
Prostrate
A prayer
Orisons
To receive, get, or pick out
Cull
An herb whose narcotic and its roots resemble a human
Mandrake
Comfort during distress
Solace
Someone who is killed for their beliefs or sacrificed to inflict pain on
Martyr
An herb which was used to mask the scent of death.
Rosemary
To order someone
Ordain
Sad, gloomy, or mournful
Sullen
A mournful funeral song
Dirge
Sullen, upset, a sad time
Lour
If Friar cannot help Juliet, what will she do?
She will kill herself
To show that she is desperate and fearless, what things does Juliet claim she will endure to remain Romeo’s pure wife?
Jump off of the battlements of the tower, walk in thievish ways, live where the serpents are, chained with roaring bears, be shut in a nightly charnel house, covered in a dead mans bones with yellow chapless skulls, go in a new made grave or hide with a dead man in his shroud.
Briefly describe Friar’s plan.
He tells Juliet to drink the vial and to tell her nurse that she will sleep by herself so when she drinks the vial she will appear dead.
Why do you think that Friar is willing to help Juliet?
He knows that she truly loves Romeo and that she is already married. He also feels a sense of guilt
What causes Capulet to say “My heart is wondrous light”?
When Juliet agrees to marry Paris.
Quote a line from Juliet’s soliloquy that foreshadows her death.
“Faint cold fear thrills through my veins that freezes the heat of life”
List some of Juliet’s fears as she considers taking the potion.
She may suffocate in the tomb, Friar could of poisoned her, she might wake up too early, she won’t be awake when Romeo comes to rescue her.
How do her fears contrast with her previous attitude?
Before she was fearless and now she is nervous.
Describe the mood in the Capulet house.
The mood is happy at first because of the marriage and now everyone is sad and depressed because of Juliet’s death.
List a quote that tells that Friar’s plan is working.
“Ready to go but not to return”
