UnB 2016 · Questão 46/179

Questão 46

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The following text is a fragment of an adaptation of Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet, first published in 1597. In the play, Romeo and Juliet are members of two enemy families, the Montague and the Capulet. The scene reproduced below is called “the balcony scene”.

[1] Juliet: Oh, Romeo, Romeo, why must you be Romeo? Deny

your father and give up your name. Or, if you won’t change

your name, just swear your love to me and I’ll give up being a

[4] Capulet.

Romeo: (to himself) Should I listen longer, or respond now to

these words?

[7] Juliet: Only your name is my enemy. You’d be yourself even

if you ceased to be a Montague. What’s a Montague, after all?

It’s not a hand, foot, arm, face, or any other body part. Oh,

[10] change your name! What’s the significance of a name? The

thing we call a rose would smell as sweet even if we called it

by some other name. So even if Romeo had some other name,

[13] he would still be perfect. Romeo, take off your name — which

really has no connection to who you are — and take all of me

instead.

Internet: www.themodernshakespeare.com (adapted).

Based on the text, judge the following item.

The passage “even if we called it by some other name” (l. 11 and 12) can be correctly replaced by even if it was given another name without this changing the meaning of the text.

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