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English "Romeo and Juliet Acts IV & V" Flashcards

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To dress or decorate
Adorn
v.

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Array

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To reduce in degree or intensity
To put an end to
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Abate

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To lead by deception; hoodwink; to trick

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Beguile

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A stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed

n.

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Bier

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A slow, solemn and mournful piece of music

n.

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Dirge

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Agitated with doubt or mental conflict

adj.

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Distraught

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To generate pus; to rot; to putrefy

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Fester

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Stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
Lying flat
adj.

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Prostrate

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One that receives or contains something; a container

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Receptacle

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A burial garment
To cover for protection; to conceal
n. or v.

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Shroud

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To loathe; regard with extreme repugnance; hate

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Abhor

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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
n.

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Apothecary

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Strongly moved by love; enamored

adj.

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Amorous

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To join on a secret agreement to do an unlawful act
Scheme
v.

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Conspire

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To form in the mind
To invent
Conceive
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Devise

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To arrange
To set readiness
To put into place
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Dispose

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Villain
One who has committed a felony (serious crime)
n.

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Felon

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To deposit a corpse in the earth or in a tomb

v.

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Inter

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An illicit lover

n.

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Paramour

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A place of burial; a tomb

n.

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Sepulcher

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Tiresome because of length or dullness; boring; our English class :)
adj.

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Tedious

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Unpleasant to taste or smell; disagreeable

adj.

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Unsavory

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“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower…”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Juliet
Friar Laurence
She will do anything to not marry Paris

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“Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take this vial…Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes to rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Friar Laurence
Juliet
The potion he gives her will make her look dead but she must drink it when she is alone at night

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“Pardon, I beseech you! Henceforth I am ever ruled by you.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Juliet
Lord Capulet
She wants his forgiveness and she will be obedient to him

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“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; my daughter he hath wedded.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Lord Capulet
Juliet
Death has taken over his life and married his daughter

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“Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? How doth my lady?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Romeo
Balthasar
He wants to know what information he has on Juliet and if he has a letter from Friar Laurence

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“My poverty but not my will consents.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Apothecary
Romeo
He doesn’t want to give the poison but he knows he needs the money so he will

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“Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice, but full of charge, of dear import; and the neglecting it may so much danger.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Friar Laurence
Friar John
He is upset that Friar John didn’t get the letter to romeo because it contained valuable information

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“The boy gives warning something doth approach.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Paris
Himself
He must hide because his watchmen whistled to signal someone is coming

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“Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred minster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Romeo
Juliet
Death is keeping her beautiful because he loves her

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“This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Juliet
Herself/ her dagger
She is the sheath to the dagger she will kill herself with

32
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“Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Lord Montague
Prince Escalus
His wife died of a broken heart over Romeo’s banishment

33
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“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?

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Prince Escalus
Himself
No story is sadder than the story than the one of Romeo and Juliet

34
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What accident or chance meeting occurs in Act IV

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Paris and Juliet at Friar Laurence’s cell

35
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Why does Paris visit friar Laurence

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So he can plan the wedding

36
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What is Juliet’s reason for visiting the friar

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To find a solution so she can not marry Paris

37
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What does Juliet threaten to do if the friar cannot help her

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Kill herself

38
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Describe the Friar’s plan, step-by-step

Juliet must:

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a. Give consent to marry Paris
b. Don’t let anyone stay in her room
c. Drink the vial in bed
d. Awake from a pleasant inside the tomb

39
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Why is Juliet so willing to trust the Friar’s plan

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Romeo has always trusted him

She is desperate and knows he’s can help

40
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What questions and doubts come to Juliet’s mind durning the famous “potion scene”

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a. Will the potion work
b. Will the potion kill her
c. Will she wake before Romeo finds her

41
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Why had Juliet not taken the nurse into her confidence concerning the friar’s plan

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She swore to never tell the nurse anything she felt in her heart after she told her to marry Paris

42
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Where did dramatic irony occur in Act IV

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Juliet’s family thinks she is dead but we know she isn’t

43
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Why do you think the friar comes up with a plan instead of telling the Capulet’s of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage

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He knows they will not accept Romeo

They aren’t supposed to be married

44
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What change does Capulet make regarding Juliet’s wedding to Paris

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He moves it to Wednesday

45
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What terrible trials does Juliet face in this act

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Drink something she doesn’t know a lot about
Lie to her parents
Wake up in a tomb

46
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How does Juliet respond to her challenges

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She is tough and executes all of them

She has doubts but ignores them mostly

47
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What do Juliet’s responses tell you about her character

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She is headstrong and knows what she wants in life

She will do anything for someone she cares about

48
Q

Describe the characters of Lord and Lady Capulet

Support your answer with details from the play

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Lord Capulet is worried about his reputation more than his daughter. He threatens to kick her out unless she marries Paris. He is more rid about the wedding preparations (he doesn’t sleep) than the fact that his daughter doesn’t even want to be married
Lady Capulet is not very opinionated. She doesn’t really say anything when Juliet is being yelled at and she mostly does what Lord Capulet wants her to do

49
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What is the situation in the Capulet house at the end of Act IV

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everyone thinks Juliet is dead except from Friar Laurence who knows she isn’t

50
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Which of Romeo’s servants brings him news from Verona, and what is new

A

Balthasar

Juliet is dead and lying in the Capulet tomb

51
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What letter is Romeo waiting for

A

The letter from the friar with the plan about Juliet

52
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What does Romeo immediately decide to do upon hearing the news

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He will write a letter to his father and ride to Verona where he will kill himself next to Juliet in the tomb

53
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What is an apothecary

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One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purpose

54
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Why is the apothecary willing to sell illegal poison to Romeo

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He is poor and hungry (a beggar) and he ends money

55
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What argument does Romeo use to persuade the apothecary to break the law

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He points out that the apothecary needs money to survive

56
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Why does friar john not deliver friar Laurence’s letter to Romeo

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He was thought to have the plague so he was quarantined inside the house

57
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Why must friar Laurence get to Juliet’s tomb before Romeo

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Someone needs to be there when she wakes up because that was the plan

58
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Why does Paris go to the tomb

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To lay flowers at Juliet’s grave

59
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Why doesn’t Paris’s servant go to the tomb with him

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He will whistle if someone is coming

60
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Why does Romeo tell Balthasar is going to enter the tomb
Why does he tell him this
What is his true plan

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That he is going to get her ring
He doesn’t want him to know of his plan
He is going to drink the poison to kill himself

61
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Why doesn’t Balthasar go into the tomb with him

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Romeo threatens to kill him

62
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What does Paris think Romeo is doing in the tomb

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Grave robbing; taking all to the valuable things

63
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Why does Romeo kill Paris

A

He is desperate and Paris provokes him

64
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How is Death personified

A

As loving Juliet and keeping her beautiful

65
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Whose blood stains does Friar Laurence see in the tomb

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Paris

66
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What does the friar tell Juliet when she wakes

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Go with him and he’ll hide her in a nunnery

A greater power than they can fight has ruined their plan

67
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How does Juliet try to get some poison into her body

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She kisses Romeo’s lips

68
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What does she do when the kissing of the lips of Romeo doesn’t kill her

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Stabs herself

69
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Who finds Juliet dead

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Chief watchman

70
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Whom does prince Escalus believe are the suspects

A

Balthasar and friar Laurence

71
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Who tells everyone the whole story

A

Friar Laurence

72
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How is friar Laurence’s story confirmed

A

The letter Romeo wrote to his father

73
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What do each of the fathers do for each others’ child

A

Build a pure gold statue of them

74
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In the end, what happens to the Capulets and montages

A

They became united through their sorrow

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