Act 4-5 test

English test

O mischief, thou art swift

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.

Speaker:Romeo

Context: Romeo learns of Juliet’s supposed death from his man, Balthasar and Romeo is quickly overcome with grief and he tells himself to turn to destructive mischief .

Meaning: Romeo is depressed and is just trying to get by. He wants to kill himself. His desperate state makes him turn to do something tragic.

Devices- apostrophe

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,

Doing more in murder in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

| sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.

Speaker: Romeo

Context:Romeo just bought poison because he heard of Juliet’s death and can’t live with out her.

Meaning:While exchanging, he explains to the apothecary that the real killer is the money and not the lethal poison he just purchased. 

Devices: metaphor, hyperbole

Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!

Speaker:Friar Lawrence

Context:The Friar says this after he finds out that the letter about the plan with Juliet never got to Romeo.

Meaning: No one was sent to be there when Juliet woke up so she was alive in a tomb. The Friar felt bad for her.

Devices: oxymoron

Corse: corpse

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,

Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus | enforce these rotten jaws to open,

And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.

Speaker:Romeo

Context:Romeo is starting to open Juliet’s tomb where he thinks she lays dead.

Meaning: Juliet is everything to Romeo and Romeo is characterizing the tomb and is feeding it with more food. The food is Romeo he plans to put himself in the tomb with Juliet.

Devices: Personification is used, death doesn’t have a womb.

Gorged: to be full of

Sweet flower, with sweet flowers thy bridal bed I strew

Which with sweet water nightly | will dew. (4.5)

Speaker:Paris

Context: Paris is morning Juliet after her “death” in her tomb. He was putting flowers on Juliet’s body.

Meaning:This shows that Paris still sees Juliet as his wife even if they never got married. He honors her.

devices: metaphor

Capulet, Montague,

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

Speaker: Prince

Context: The Friar just told everyone his plan to help Juliet

Meaning: The Prince is telling them that the Capulet’s and Montague’s hate lead this to happen. Both their loves (their kids) are now dead because they’re family’s hated each other so they couldn’t be together.

Devices: Personification and Metaphor

Scourge:whip/ punishment that causes great pain

Tempt not a desperate man.

Speaker: Romeo

Context:Romeo is about to open Juliet’s tomb and Paris shows up. He is just antagonizing Romeo and trying to get him to fight him.

Meaning: Romeo is desperate and hopeless. Romeo is warning Paris not to provoke him any more.

Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;

My Daughter he hath wedded.

I will die

And leave him all.

Life, living all is Death's. (4.5)

Speaker:Capulet

Context: The Nurse just found Juliet “dead” and called in her loved ones(Lady Capulet, Capulet, and the Friar). Everyone started to mourn her.

Meaning: Juliet is Capulet’s last child. After he dies then no one else would carry on the Capulet name. Also, the person he loved the most has died. Instead of Paris marrying her, death did.

Devices: Personification

How if, when | am laid inside the tomb,

| wake before the time that Romeo

Come to redeem me?...

Shall | not then be stifled in the vault¢...

And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? (4.3)

Speaker:Juliet

Context:Juliet is talking in a soliloquy. Juliet is about to take the Friar’s sleep potion. She is scared of all the possibilities that could happen to her.

Meaning:Juliet is saying how shes scared that shes going to die in the tomb before Romeo gets to her or before he gets there.

redeem:to regain possession

Eyes look your last

Arms, take your last embrace.

And lips, O, you

The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain with engrossing death.

Speaker:Romeo

Context Romeo is talking in a soliloquy and he is about to take the poison. He is saying goodbye to the land of the living.

Meaning: Romeo is going to hug then kiss Juliet then take the poison. He is ready to die.

Devices: Apostrophe

I defy you stars

Speaker:Romeo

Context:Romeo is expressing his grief towards Juliet’s death, but Juliet isn’t actually dead.

Meaning: Romeo is rejecting his fate and is basically saying that he will take his fate into his own hands.

Devices:Apostrophe

By Holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here

To beg your pardon. Pardon, | beseech you.

Henceforward | am ever ruled by you.

Speaker: Juliet

Context: Juliet is talking to her father and doing what the Friar said of being obedient.

Meaning:Juliet is apologizing for her past disobedience and begging on her knees for forgiveness.

prostrate:to fall forward, in repentance

beseech: to beg, request earnestly

If thy wisdom thou canst give no help,

Do thou but call my resolution wise,

and with this knife I'll help it presently.

Speaker: Juliet

Context:Juliet is talking to Friar Lawrence and she is begging for him to help her get out of marrying Paris.

Meaning: She is saying that if the Friar can’t help her get out of this marriage, she will kill herself.

Devices:hyperbole and metaphor

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Speaker:Capulet

Context:Capulet has just discovered Juliet’s dead body on her wedding day.

Meaning: He is saying how Juliet’s young death happened so quick and unexpected that it resembled frost.

Devices: simile

My heart is wondrous light

Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.

Speaker:Capulet

Context:Capulet says this after learning that Juliet has supposedly come to her senses and chosen to marry Paris.

Meaning:Capulet is so overjoyed, that he compares his heart to something light and unburdened (metaphor), now that he is satisfied.

The heavens do lour upon you for some ill

Move them no more by crossing their high will.

Speaker:Capulet

Context: Capulet says this after discovering her lifeless body the day of her wedding. Capulet believes that Juliet’s death is a punishment from heaven, possible because of a sin or wrongdoing.

Meaning:Shakespeare personifies the heavens of being capable of being angry or upset which forces guilty Capulet to vow to not be in control.

Devices: Rhyming Couplet

All things we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral

Speaker:Capulet

Context: Capulet says this moments after finding Juliet dead on her wedding day celebration.

Meaning: The passage shows the painful turn of events as the family meant for a day of celebration, but instead received a day of mourning and sadness.

Devices:antithesis

office: purpose/ duty

Tragedy

Definition: a genre of a play dealing with tragic downfalls.

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tragic hero

Definition:the noble character of a play that experiences a downfall.

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tragic flaw

Definition: Hamrtia, the error that reverts a protagonists fortune from good to bad.

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catharsis

Definition:A cleansing or purification brought about by great sadness, fear, or pity.

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oxymoron

Definition:A contradiction that's nevertheless true.

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apostrophe

Definition:inatiamite.

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antithesis

Definition: a direct oppostie

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rhyming couplet

Definition:2 constitutive lines of end rhyme.

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monologue

Definition: a characters long speech but other people can hear it.

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soliloquy

Definition: A long speech that helps audience know the characters inner thoughts.

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characterization

Definition: how the character is developed.

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dramatic irony

Definition: the reader/ audience knows more then the characters.

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foreshadowing

Definition: a warning or hinting that something is going to happen, it helps prepare us for the ending.

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motif

Definition:A repeated image in a story that helps develop a theme.

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