A poem with fourteen lines and a mixed rhyme scheme is a
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sonnet
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Which of Juliet's lines best shows that she understands Romeo's identity?
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My only love sprung from my only hate!
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Read these lines spoken by Nurse and Lady Capulet in Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.
Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour.
Lady Capulet: She's not fourteen.
Nurse: I'll lay fourteen of my teeth—
And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four—
She is not fourteen.
These lines allow the reader to see Nurse's
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sense of humor
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Read the dialogue from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.
Capulet: Why, how now, kinsman! wherefore storm you so?
Tybalt: Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe;
A villain that is hither come in spite,
To scorn at our solemnity this night.
Capulet: Young Romeo, is it?
Tybalt: 'Tis he, that villain Romeo.
Capulet: Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone:
He bears him like a portly gentleman
Which best describes the relationship between Tybalt and Capulet?
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Tybalt is Capulet's nephew. His short-tempered personality provides a foil to the calmer Lord Capulet.
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Impulsive, emotional Romeo acts as a character foil for
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Paris, who is stable yet dull.
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Read the lines from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo: O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Shakespeare uses the structure of these lines to develop
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Romeo's character as he persuades Juliet to kiss him.
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Which pair of characters have a relationship based on caregiving?
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Nurse and Juliet
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Read the lines from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo: [To JULIET.] If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this;
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.
Which statement about the structure of these lines is true?
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Romeo's lines make up one quatrain, which uses an abab rhyme scheme.
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Read the lines from Act I, scene v of Romeo and Juliet.
Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.
Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg'd!
Give me my sin again.
Juliet: You kiss by the book.
Shakespeare uses the structure of these lines to
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demonstrate the playful affection of a new relationship.
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When Romeo and Juliet first meet in Act I, scene v, a sonnet structure is used because
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the sonnet shows their romantic connection.
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