Mercutio: Where the devil should this Romeo be?
Came he not home to-night?
Benvolio: Not to his father's; I spoke with his man.
Mercutio: Why that same pale hard-hearted wench, that
Rosaline,
Torments him so, that he will sure run mad.
Benvolio: Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,
Hath sent a letter to his father's house.
Mercutio: A challenge, on my life.
Benvolio: Romeo will answer it.
Mercutio: Any man that can write may answer a letter.
Benvolio: Nay, he will answer the letter's master, how he
dares, being dared.
-- Romeo and Juliet,
William Shakespeare
What plot details help create the tense mood? Check
all that apply.
Romeo is missing.
Benvolio is speaking to Romeo's father.
Rosaline has refused Romeo again.
Tybalt has sent a challenge to fight.
Mercutio wants to respond to Tybalt.