Answer: A) Mercutio believes Romeo is too preoccupied with girls and romance to fight Tybalt.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from Act II, scene IV of "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, we can see a conversation between Benvolio and Mercutio about Romeo and his chances if he decides to fight Tybalt. Benvolio thinks Romeo will answer Tybalt's challenge but Mercutio thinks Romeo is in love and too preoccupied with girls and romance to fight Tybalt, he says that in the lines "Alas poor Romeo! he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft: and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?"
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He uses concrete images like "black gates and barbed wire that create strong emotion.