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Dramatic Irony and the Language of Love — Homework
Read the balcony scene (Act 2) closely, watching for verse and prose shifts.
- 1.What does "wherefore" actually mean in "wherefore art thou Romeo"?
- 2.Identify one line in the balcony scene that means one thing to the characters and something more ominous to an audience who has heard the Prologue.
- 3.What does it usually signal in this play when a character speaks in prose rather than verse?
- 4.In four or more sentences, explain why Shakespeare might want the audience to feel the gap between the characters' hope and the audience's foreknowledge, rather than saving a surprise for the end.
- 5.Define dramatic irony in one sentence.
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