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Answers to all study
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O’Brien’s website
Antithesis: opposite or contrasting ideas (this term will be on
your test tomorrow!)
Make a list of all the antithetical ideas that we have
witnessed in the play thus far.
How are these
two connected?
Light/Dark
Day/Night
Capulet/Montague
Peace/Violence
Good/Evil
Life/Death
Reminders
Romeo and Juliet Test tomorrow
 Review sheet due tomorrow
 Come to tutoring to check your answers
on the review
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ROMEO AND JULIET
ACT III SCENE IV
Summary
Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris walk together.
Capulet says that because of the terrible recent
events, he has had no time to ask his daughter
about her feelings for Paris. Lady Capulet states that
she will know her daughter’s thoughts by the
morning. Paris is about to leave when Capulet calls
him back and makes what he calls “a desperate
tender of my child’s love” (3.4.12–13). Capulet says
he thinks his daughter will listen to him, then
corrects himself and states that he is sure Juliet will
abide by his decision. He promises Paris that the
wedding will be held on Wednesday, then stops
suddenly and asks what day it is. Paris responds
that it is Monday; Capulet decides that Wednesday
is too soon, and that the wedding should instead be
held on Thursday.
ROMEO AND JULIET
ACT III SCENE V
Summary
Just before dawn, Romeo prepares to lower himself
from Juliet’s window to begin his exile. The Nurse
enters to warn Juliet that Lady Capulet is
approaching. Romeo and Juliet tearfully part.
Romeo climbs out the window. Romeo hurries away
as Juliet pulls in the ladder and begs fate to bring
him back to her quickly. Lady Capulet tells Juliet
about Capulet’s plan for her to marry Paris on
Thursday, explaining that he wishes to make her
happy. Juliet is appalled. She rejects the match,
saying “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear /
It shall be Romeo—whom you know I hate— / Rather
than Paris” (3.5.121–123). Capulet enters the
chamber. When he learns of Juliet’s determination
to defy him he becomes enraged and threatens to
disown Juliet if she refuses to obey him. Juliet turns
to Friar Laurence for help.
Romeo and Juliet Act iv Summary
Juliet goes to Friar Laurence and finds Paris is there making plans for their
wedding. (Remember the wedding got moved to Thursday)
Paris leaves, and Juliet insists that Friar Laurence help her find a
way out of this wedding. She threatens, “If in thy wisdom though
canst give no help/Do though but call my resolution wise/And with
this knife I’ll help it presently” (IV.i.50-53)
Friar Laurence gives Juliet a potion (Remember . . .
“Virtue turns to vice when being misapplied “). The
potion will make Juliet appear dead – slow her heart
rate, blanche the color of her face – and will keep her
asleep for 42 hours. He will send word to Romeo to meet
Juliet once she wakes up from the potion.
”Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death.
And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.
Then, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncovered on the bier
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
And hither shall he come, and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.”
Romeo and Juliet Act iv Summary
Juliet returns home and apologizes to Capulet, stating that she will go
through with the wedding to Paris. Capulet is so ecstatic that he moves the
wedding to the next day, Wednesday.
Juliet prepares for bed that night and sends her Nurse and
Lady Capulet away. She gives a soliloquy where she reveals
how frightened she truly is. However, she finally drinks the
potion and falls to her bed.
The next morning, the day of the wedding, the Nurse discovers
the body of, a seemingly dead, Juliet. The family calls Friar
Laurence who tries to comfort them with the thought that “now
heaven hath all, / And all the better is it for the maid” (IV.v.63-64).
He instructs the family to bring Juliet’s body to the family tomb.
Act v scene i
Speaking Parts:
Romeo
Balthasar
Apothecary
Act v scene ii
Speaking Parts:
Friar Laurence
Friar John
Act v scene iii
Speaking Parts
Paris
Page
Romeo
Balthasar
Friar Laurence
Juliet
Chief Watchman
Second Watchman
Third Watchman
Prince
Capulet
Lady Capulet
Montague
The inevitability of fate
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How has fate guided the entire play?
Grammar Unit: Appositive Phrases
Beginning, Middle, End
An appositive phrase can occur at the beginning, middle, or end of a
sentence.
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When the appositive begins the sentence, it looks like this:
A hot-tempered tennis player, Robbie charged the umpire and
tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
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When the appositive interrupts the sentence, it looks like this:
Robbie, a hot-tempered tennis player, charged the umpire and
tried to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
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And when the appositive ends the sentence, it looks like this:
Upset by the bad call, the crowd cheered Robbie, a hottempered tennis player who charged the umpire and tried
to crack the poor man's skull with a racket.
Identify the appositive phrase in the sentences
below by underlining them.
Remember to first identify the noun that the
appositive renames.
Alan, the chief executive of the project, has
just called for a meeting.
 Denver, the capital of Colorado, is very
beautiful.
 Mark was talking to Sheila, Bob’s little sister.
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Answers
Alan, the chief executive of the project,
has just called for a meeting.
 Denver, the capital of Colorado, is very
beautiful.
 Mark was talking to Sheila, Bob’s little
sister.
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Grammar Unit:
Restrictive vs. Nonrestrictive Appositives
Add this information to your notes from Monday and Tuesday.
Despite what we have witnessed in all of our previous examples, not all
appositive phrases are set off by commas!
Restrictive Appositives: In a restrictive appositive, the second element
limits or clarifies a word in some crucial way. Appositives that are
necessary in order to comprehend the full meaning of a
sentence should NOT be set off with commas.
Example:
Police officer Smith told my brother to file a report
about his stolen bike.
My brother David likes spaghetti.
Remember: R&J Test and
Grammar HW due Friday!
Masterpiece due Monday!
Nonrestrictive Appositives
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Nonrestrictive Appositives: Nonrestrictive
appositives are not necessary to understanding
the sentence. It rather provides additional
information about the noun being renamed. Nonrestrictive appositives are set off by comma(s).
Example:
Mexico City, the biggest city in the world, has
many interesting archaeological sites.
My brother's bike, a dark green BMX, was stolen
yesterday.
Identify the appositive phrases below by
underlining them. If they are nonrestrictive
appositives, add the necessary comma(s).
An innovative writer Leonard Cohen grew
up in Montreal, Canada.
 My aunt Sandra always puts an exorbitant
number of lights on her house at Christmas.
 I always enjoy spending time with my cousin
Mallory
 Toby Diane's eleven-year-old beagle chews
holes in the living room carpeting as if he
were still a puppy.
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Answers
An innovative writer, Leonard Cohen
grew up in Montreal, Canada.
 My aunt Sandra always puts an exorbitant
number of lights on her house at Christmas.
 I always enjoy spending time with my cousin
Mallory.
 Toby, Diane's eleven-year-old beagle,
chews holes in the living room carpeting as
if he were still a puppy.
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