AP Multiple Choice Romeo and Juliet

The Nurse's tone in line 1-14 could best be described as

• chiding

• imperious

• obsequious

• wheedling

• peremptory

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

The simile in lines 40-41 could best be characterized as

• maudlin

• banal

• poignant

• saccharine

• inappropriate

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

The elaborate depiction of Death as Capulet's son is an example of a(n)

• simile

• allusion

• conceit

• allegory

• symbol

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

In the responses of the Nurse, Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris to Juliet's death, all of the following devices are especially striking EXCEPT

• repetition

• litotes

• hyperbole

• apostrophe

• exclamation

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Friar Lawrence admonishes the mourners because they

• did not show such affection for Juliet before her death

• could have prevented Juliet's death

• are making an unseemly display of emotion

• should be happy that Juliet is in heaven

• had insisted that Juliet marry against her will

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Friar Lawrence draws a distinction between

• true and false emotion

• intelligence and logic

• love for a child and love for a spouse

• joy and sorrow

• emotion and reason

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Capulet's words in lines 107-113 are primarily characterized by

• internal rhyme

• anaphora

• assonance

• end rhyme

• allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Line 113 is

• declarative

• interrogative

• exclamatory

• imperative

• subjunctive

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3