1. Act IV Assessment
Romeo and Juliet

2. Directions
Write the name of the character that spoke the selected lines. Once you have indicated who said it, write a brief explanation of what the character is talking about, including the situation surrounding the quote and/or why it is important.

3. Example “ My heart is wondrous light.
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
Speaker: Capulet
Situation: Capulet feels better that Juliet will now be married to Paris and will be happy again.

4. 1.
“ O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful day!”
Speaker-
Situation-

5. 2.
“ Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
Speaker-
Situation-

6. 3.
“ Where I have learnt me to repent the sin
Of disobedient opposition
To you and your behests, and am enjoined
By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here
To beg your pardon. Pardon. I beseech you!”
Speaker-
Situation-

7. 4. “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I’ll call them back again to comfort me…
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial.”
Speaker-
Situation-

8. 5.
“Why, love, I say! Madam! Sweetheart! Why,Bride!
Marry and amen, how sound is she asleep!
I needs must wake her. Madam, madam, madam!”
Speaker-
Situation-

9. 6.
“Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,
Unless though tell me how I may prevent it.
If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do though but call my resolution wise
And with this knife I’ll help it presently.”
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Situation-

10. 7.
“And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.”
Speaker:
Situation:

11. 8.
“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all-life, living, and is Death’s
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Situation-