Final Exam ~ Act 5

Question 1

to examine with care; to study

Answer 1

peruse

Question 2

illness, infection

Answer 2

contagion

Question 3

scatter, spread

Answer 3

strew

Question 4

inevitably; forced by circumstances

Answer 4

perforce

Question 5

frighten; terrify

Answer 5

affright

Question 6

a tomb; a mausoleum

Answer 6

sepulchre

Question 7

curse; plague

Answer 7

scourge

Question 8

placed in a tomb

Answer 8

interred

Question 9

arrogant; conceited

Answer 9

haughty

Question 10

unfavorable; unlucky

Answer 10

inauspicious

Question 11

extreme poverty

Answer 11

penury

Question 12

unstoppable; unavoidable

Answer 12

inexorable

Question 13

a pharmacist

Answer 13

apothecary

Question 14

a breakout of a fatal endemic disease; bubonic plague

Answer 14

pestilence

Question 15

bad luck; misfortune

Answer 15

mischance

Question 16

sadness; sorrow

Answer 16

woe

Question 17

quarantined in a house because of contact with the plague

Answer 17

Friar John

Question 18

• “… That murd’red my love’s cousin - with which grief*
• It is supposed the fair creature died -*
• And here is come to do some villainous shame*
• To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him.”*

Answer 18

Paris’s declaration

Question 19

a word or phrase that signifies an object or event which in turn signifies something, or has a range of reference, beyond itself

Answer 19

symbol/ symbolism

Question 20

• “I am the greatest, able to do least,*
• Yet most suspected, as the time and place*
• Doth make against me, of this direful murder;*
• And herre I stand, both to impeach and purge*
• Myself condemned and myself escus’d.”*

Answer 20

Friar Lawarence’s apt use of antitheses in his account

Question 21

• “Meagre were his looks;*
• sharp misery had worn him to the bones;*
• And in his needy shop a tortoise hung”*

Answer 21

the apothecary

Question 22

• “But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger*
• A precious ring - a ring that I must use*
• In dear employment”*

Answer 22

an excuse given to Balthasar

Question 23

a figure of speech in which someone (usually absent), an abstract quality, or a non-existent personage is addressed as though present

Answer 23

apostrophe

Question 24

• “I do beseech you, sir, have patience;*
• Your looks are pale and wild, and do import*
• Some misadventure.”*

Answer 24

placed in a tomb

Question 25

death is a kind of retorative medicine for intense emotional suffering

Answer 25

poison as a cordial

Question 26

a poisonous evergreen tree with red berries

Answer 26

unfavorable; unlucky

Question 27

“But I can give thee more;

• For I will raise her statue in pure gold.*
• That whiles Verona by that name is known,*
• There shall no figure at such rate be set*
• As that of true and faithful Juliet.”*

Answer 27

a symbol of restoration and unity for the people

Question 28

“the untying of the knot”; the conclusion or resolution that follows the climax.

Answer 28

dénouement

Question 29

• “See what a sourge is laid upon your hate,*
• That heaven finds means to kill your joys*
• with love!”*

Answer 29

the Prince’s sober words

Question 30

• “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead -*
• Strange dream, that gives dead man leave*
• to think! -*
• And breath’d such life with kisses in my lips*
• that I reviv’d, and was an emperor.”*

Answer 30

Romeo on a street in Mantua

Question 31

• “Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death*
• Gorg’d with the dearest morsel of the earth”*

Answer 31

refers to the Capulet tomb

Question 32

• “Death, that hat suck’d the honey of thy breath,*
• Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.*
• Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet*
• Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,*
• And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”*

Answer 32

example of dramatic theory

Question 33

a small vial

Answer 33

dram

Question 34

the setting of scene 3

Answer 34

the Capulet tomb in a churchyard in Verona

Question 35

a figure in which, in repeating a word, shifts from one of its meanings to another

Answer 35

antanaclasis

Question 36

• “And that the trunk may be discharg’d of breath*
• As violently as hasty powder fir’d*
• Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.”*

Answer 36

the effect of poison amplified by simile