Question

Read the lines from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet

And the continuance of their parents' rage, which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

What is the best paraphrasing of these lines?

A. Even their children's deaths could not end the parents' rage

B. Nothing but their children's deaths could stop the parents' anger

C. The parents continued their fued even after their children died

D. The parents tried to make peace before their children died ​

Answer 1

Nothing but their children's deaths could stop the parents' anger

For "And the continuance of their parents' rage" we would say the 'parent's were in a continuous anger', and for "which, but their children's end, nought could remove," we would read this as 'the children's end removed" which if we put togther, it would say something like "The parents rage did not end until the children's death occured " which matches most with the option I chose.