Themes and Resolution in Romeo and Juliet, Part 8 — Unit test
Question 15 • GA-Literature and Composition I
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!O any thing! of nothing first create.O heavy lightness! serious vanity!Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!This love feel I, that feel no love in this.Dost thou not laugh?
Answer
A
the anger he feels toward a certain woman.
B
his certainty about his romantic fate.
C
the extreme emotions that he is feeling.
D
his confusion about Benvolio’s advice.
Explanation
Romeo strings together contradictory phrases such as “brawling love,” “loving hate,” and “cold fire.” These oxymorons show that he is experiencing intense, conflicting emotions about love. They do not show certainty about his romantic future; instead, Romeo says he feels love while feeling no love in return.
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