Final Exam

Question 1

Oxymoron

Answer 1

a figure of speech were two opposite words are used together

Question 2

star-crossed

Answer 2

ill-fated

Question 3

dignity

Answer 3

social rank

Question 4

mutiny

Answer 4

quarrel

Question 5

civil

Answer 5

community/civilzed

Question 6

classic allusion

Answer 6

an inderect lesson to greek/roman mythology

Question 7

sonnet

Answer 7

14 line complex rhyming poem written in iambic pentameter

Question 8

paradox

Answer 8

a self-contradictory statement that is actually true

Question 9

Why does the prince refer to the Capulets and Montagues as having “purple blood”?

Answer 9

They have so much power that they are practically royalty

Question 10

“if ever your disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace”

Answer 10

the prince says this in act one after the fight between the capulets and the montagues

Question 11

archaic language

Answer 11

words that look familiar, but have very different meanings

Question 12

omission

Answer 12

something that is cut out

Question 13

Petrarchan love

Answer 13

anti-sexual, lover is melancholy, love is not returned (Romeo and Rosaline’s love)

Question 14

inversion

Answer 14

when something is reversed or moved around

Question 15

pun

Answer 15

a play on words

Question 16

What does Romeo use when he talks about Juliet to himself?

Answer 16

Light analogies

Question 17

“O, that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek”

Answer 17

Romeo is wishing he was the glove on the hand Juliet is resting head on

Question 18

What does “wherefore” mean when Juliet says it?

Answer 18

why

Question 19

“what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.”

Answer 19

Juliet is questioning why names determine what something is

Question 20

“my years have not yet dunk a hundred of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound”

Answer 20

Juliet is in love with Romeo despite the fact that they just met

Question 21

“my life were better ended by their hate then death prorogued, wanting of they love”

Answer 21

Juliet would rathe die with Romeo than go her life without him.

Question 22

“I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden , too like the lightning. which doth cease to be ere one can say ‘it lightens.’ Sweet, good night”

Answer 22

Juliet is unsure about their relationship and how they are moving too fast.

Question 23

“O blessed, blessed night! I am afeared, being in night, all this is but a dream”

Answer 23

Everything is going so well for Romeo that he is afraid it’s a dream.

Question 24

“if that thy is bent of love honorable, thy propose marriage, send me word tomorrow. by one that I’ll procure to come to thee”

Answer 24

Juliet says that if Romeo really wants to get married, she can do it tomorrow

Question 25

in the balcony scene, when did Romeo and Juliet agree to get married?

Answer 25

9:00 the next morning

Question 26

“within rind of this weak poison hath residence and medicine power. For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.”

Answer 26

an examples of a paradox, saying that the flower can emotionally heal someone if they smell it, or medically poison them if they eat it.

Question 27

“holy saint Francis, what a change is here! Is rosaline that thou didst love so dear? so soon forsaken young men’s love lies not truly in their heart but in their eyes.”

Answer 27

Friar Lawrence is accusing Romeo of abandoning

Question 28

“for doting, not for loving, pupil mine”

Answer 28

Friar Lawrence is telling Romeo that he never really loved her.

Question 29

“In one respect I’ll thy assistance be, fir this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love”

Answer 29

Friar Lawrence thinks that Romeo and Juliet’s wedding may resolve the conflict between the Capulets and Montagues.

Question 30

“wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.”

Answer 30

Friar Lawrence says that Romeo should take his time with Juliet, Contradicting his choice to marry them right after they met.

Question 31

“these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume. the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in taste confound the appetite.”

Answer 31

Friar Lawrence says that Romeo and Juliet’s relationship will end in disaster if they move through it too fast

Question 32

“Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain I am none”

Answer 32

Tybalt doesn’t know that Romeo and Juliet are married, but Romeo thinks he does

Question 33

“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission”

Answer 33

Mercutio is upset that Romeo won’t fight

Question 34

“Why the devil came you between us?”

Answer 34

Mercutio is asking Romeo why he stepped into the fight

Question 35

“A plague ‘o both your houses”

Answer 35

Mercutio claims the feud and curses both families

Question 36

“Sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate and in my temper softened “

Answer 36

Romeo believes that his love for Juliet has made him weak

Question 37

“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower, or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk where serpents are”

Answer 37

Juliet says that there are horrific things she would rather do than marry Paris

Question 38

“Here’s to my love. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die”

Answer 38

Romeo spends his final moment acknowledging his love for Juliet

Question 39

“Come, I’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of holy nuns. Stay not to question, for the watch is coming. Come, go, good Juliet, I dare no longer stay.”

Answer 39

Friar Lawrence plans to hide Juliet as a nun, but then abandons her when the watch comes.

Question 40

“O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughters jointure, for no more can I demand.”
“But I give thee more, for I will ray her statue in pure gold, that whiles Verona by that name is known, there shall by no figure at such rate be set as that of true and faithful Juliet.”

Answer 40

the Montagues and Capulets are grieving for each other and lord Montague agrees to but up a gold statue of Juliet.