In act 4 Friar gives Juliet the poison that would make her look dead.  She leaves a knife by her bed just in case the poison didn't work.  This foreshadows what tragedy is in store for Romeo and Juliet.  When Juliet's parents find her they order the music to change to funeral music.
The main characters of this act are Friar Lawrence, Juliet, Lady and Mr. Capulet, and the nurse.
When Juliet says "That may be, sir, when I may be a wife." she is hinting that she is already a wife.  This is foreshadowing.  There are also similes like "And shrieks like mandrakes' torn out of the earth," and "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field."




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