Study Guide Answers

1. ROMEO & JULIET
ACT 4, SCENE 5
STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS

2. 1. JULIET’S PARENTS
REACT WITH SHOCK TO
THE NEWS OF JULIET’S
“DEATH.” HER MOTHER
SAYS SHE’LL DIE TOO.
REVIVE, LOOK UP, OR I WILL DIE
WITH THEE – LINE 22
HER FATHER SAYS
DEATH IS NOW HIS
SON-IN-LAW.
DEATH IS MY HEIR. – LINE 41

3. 2. LORD CAPULET USES A SIMILE WHEN
HE COMPARES JULIET TO A FLOWER
KILLED BY FROST.
Death lies upon her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field
Lines 30-31

4. 3. YES, ACCORDING TO FRIAR LAWRENCE.
• The most you sought was her promotion,
• For ‘twas your heaven she should be advanced,
• And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
• Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
• O, in this love, you love your child so ill (lines 74-78)

5. 4. THE FRIAR COMFORTS THE CAPULETS BY SAYING
THEY HAD NO POWER TO STOP HER DEATH, SO THEY
SHOULD DRY THEIR TEARS AS JULIET IS NOW IN
HEAVEN.

6. “OUR INSTRUMENTS TO MELANCHOLY BELLS,
OUR WEDDING CHEER TO A SAD BURIAL FEAST,
OUR SOLEMN HYMNS TO SULLEN DIRGES CHANGE;
OUR BRIDAL FLOWERS SERVE FOR A BURIED CORSE;” LINES 89 - 92
5. ANAPHORA – the repetition of a word or phrase “our” and “to”
JUXTAPOSITION – contrasting 2 things example: wedding/burial
ALLITERATION – a repeated sound example: “s” solemn, sad, sullen, serve

7. 6. AFTER THE SADNESS OF JULIET’S DEATH, PETER AND
THE MUSICIANS PROVIDE A LIGHTER NOTE OR A BREAK
IN THE SOMBER ACTION.

8. CREATED BY M. RIDDELL – APRIL 2017