In the prologue to Romeo and Juliet, the Chorus reveals that the play is going to be a tragedy. The audience learns that Romeo and Juliet are ”star-cross’d lovers” destinated to dir, which brings out the themes of love and fate.
In the prologue, Shakespeare uses phrases such as ”death-marked love” and ”star-cross’d lovers” to show that fortune and fate are responsible for the tragedy. Shakespeare also described Romeo and Juliet’s defiance of their parents as ”misadventured piteous overthrows.” This description suggests that the lovers’ efforts to be together will be hopeless against what fate has in store for them.
Shakespeare also suggests that the death of the lovers will reconcile the two families and bring peace:
The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
b. omnipotent
c. overt
d. vaunted
Answer: vaunted
Explanation:
b. Soldiers passed by the crowds in full armor.
c. Archers passed arrows among themselves.
d. News of the victory passed quickly among the troops.
Answer:
The sentence that contains a transitive verb is sentence C.
Explanation:
Transitive verbs have two characteristics: They are action verbs and they select arguments. That is, they express a doable activity and they take direct or indirect objects to complete their meaning. In the sentence above, the NP "archers", subject of the sentence, denotes the people carrying out the action denoted by the verb (passed) and the NP "arrows" functions as the direct object, the object receiving the action.
B. Trey didn't hear his phone ringing.
C. Driving down the street, Bree saw a deer.
D. Mike dropped his watch walking to school.
b. symbolism
c. allusion
d. alliteration
The poetic device that Poe uses here is Alliteration.
Alliteration is the repetition of the same letter in consecutive words, it is commonly used by poets, and it helps to transmit a lot of emotions to the readers.
The other options represent devices that are not used in these lines, repetition is the use of the same word at the beginning of phrases,symbolism is to talk about something to represent something else, and allusion makes reference to something that is well-known by others.