INTERPRET: Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story. Explain the foreshadowing in these two parts from Act 1:

A. Scene 4, lines 106-111
Romeo: “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term of a despised life, closed in my breast,/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”

B. Scene 5, line 133
Juliet: “My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

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INTERPRET: Foreshadowing is the use of hints or clues to suggest events that will happen later in the story. Explain the foreshadowing in these two parts from Act 1:

A. Scene 4, lines 106-111
Romeo: “I fear, too early; for my mind misgives/ Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,/ Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/ With this night’s revels and expire the term of a despised life, closed in my breast,/ By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”

B. Scene 5, line 133 
Juliet: “My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

Vocaloid · Answer

Remember that the prologue told us that both Romeo and Juliet will die.

Now, notice how both characters are thinking/talking about potentially dying. This is an example of foreshadowing, since it’s hinting at the fact that they both actually do die later in the story.