Romeo And Juliet Act 2

Front 1

conjure

Back 1

make a spell to make someone appear

Front 2

consorted

Back 2

associate with

Front 3

perury

Back 3

to lie under oath

Front 4

variable

Back 4

something that changes

Front 5

idolatry

Back 5

worshipping a false God

Front 6

invocation

Back 6

prayer asking for help

Front 7

procure

Back 7

obtain/go out and buy something

Front 8

confound

Back 8

confuse

Front 9

kinsmen

Back 9

relatives

Front 10

vile

Back 10

evil

Front 11

what is personified in the opening lines of the prologue

Back 11

old love and young hate

Front 12

in the prologue what problems does the chorus foresee for Romeo and Juliet

Back 12

they're going to have to sneak around

Front 13

who do benvolio and mercutio think romeo is in love with? this is an example of what type of irony

Back 13

rosaline and dramatic irony

Front 14

both benvolio and mercutio make comments about what kind of love

Back 14

blind love

Front 15

romeo repeats the light and dark images he introduce when he saw Juliet for the first time. Why does romeo compare juliet to the sun

Back 15

she's bright/ warm; brings him life like the sun

Front 16

why does he want the sun to kill the envious moon

Back 16

he doesn't want her to be a virgin/nun

Front 17

why is the moon envious

Back 17

her beauty/ sun gives off more love

Front 18

why does he compare Juliet's eyes to the stars

Back 18

they sparkle like them

Front 19

why is this comparison to stars another example of foreshadowing

Back 19

because they're star crossed lovers

Front 20

juliet is still unaware that romeo is nearby. paraphrase these lines

Back 20

why do you have to be a montague - names aren't important it's what's inside

Front 21

what is juliet's attitude toward the feud that has separated the 2 families

Back 21

she wants it to end

Front 22

juliet asks how romeo got into her place. the orchard walls are high, and romeo's life would be in danger if her relatives were to find him there. what is romeo's response to these questions?

Back 22

he climbed the wall and his response to everything is love

Front 23

why is juliet embarrassed? how does her attitude change? what is she worried about?

Back 23

romeo overheard her talking about her love for him - she decides to slow things down and is worried he'll think she is easy

Front 24

why does juliet object to romeo's swearing on the moon

Back 24

the moon is always changing and doesn't want his love for her to change

Front 25

juliet speaks of her fears. explain.

Back 25

their love won't last moving to o fast and they must slow down

Front 26

paraphrase lines 139 - 141

Back 26

too good to be true - must be a dream

Front 27

juliet is going to send someone to romeo on the following day for what purpose

Back 27

to discuss their marriage

Front 28

describe juliet's personality

Back 28

she appears to have a brain and knowledge but she is not patient and is constantly changing her mind

Front 29

death imagery

Back 29

when you paint pictures of death in your mind - anything that makes you think of death

Front 30

mallaprop

Back 30

a word that is used in the wrong way

Front 31

chide

Back 31

to scold

Front 32

friar laurence is introduced in a lengthy soliloquy in which he philosophies about nature and about mankind. paraphrase his speech

Back 32

plants and humans are similiar because we have good and bad

Front 33

when friar sees romeo, what comment does he make about seeing romeo so early in the morning

Back 33

something's bothering him or he hasn't slept all night/ not been in bed

Front 34

from line 44, what can we infer about friar and romeo's relationsihp

Back 34

they're extremely close - shares secrets

Front 35

what does romeo tell friar and what does he want form the friar

Back 35

he says he found someone who love shim back and wants him to marry them

Front 36

what does friar mean when he says to romeo, "young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes"

Back 36

he's in lust not love

Front 37

what reason does friar give fro agreeing to marry romeo and juliet

Back 37

he wants to end the feud and make romeo happy

Front 38

what advice does friar give to romeo

Back 38

take it lsow

Front 39

list words from the friar's words to romeo that suggest death. what literary device might this be an example of

Back 39

death imagery and he uses the words bury and grave

Front 40

shrift and shrive

Back 40

confession

Front 41

what has tybalt sent romeo? who do romeo's friends believe romeo is in love with

Back 41

a challenge for a duel and rosaline - dramatic irony

Front 42

according to mercutio what kind of man is tybalt

Back 42

extremely good fighter - catlike; 9 lives

Front 43

explain the pun lines 41 - 47

Back 43

you gave us the counterfeit slip

Front 44

how doe smercutio feel about romeo's mood

Back 44

im glad the old romeo is back

Front 45

describe the personality of mercutio

Back 45

he loves to hear himself talk, nasty, and loves to give hard times to people especially the nurse

Front 46

what malapropisms, an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it, does the nurse use in fighting with mercutio? benvolio's malaprops reply?

Back 46

confidence - conference
endite - invite
ropery - robery

Front 47

how is what romeo says a good description of mercutio

Back 47

mercutio lvoes to hear himself talk

Front 48

what message does romeo urge the nurse to give to juleit? what favor does he ask to the nurse

Back 48

meet at the friar's cell - confession then be married; get a rope so he can get up to juliet's balcony

Front 49

juliet is very impatient to hear the news from romeo. what images does she use in her soliloquy to express this

Back 49

wishes the nurse was like a ball rolling - everything needs to move faster

Front 50

the nurse is supposed to be gone only a half hour, but she is actually gone for how long

Back 50

over 3 hours

Front 51

the nurse knows juliet is impatient, but she keeps putting her off. why does the nurse do this

Back 51

just to mess with her - possibly mad at juliet; has the upper hand - wants to aggravate her

Front 52

whydoes the nurse agree to help juliet marry romeo

Back 52

she wants to see her marry - make her happy

Front 53

"critics say that juliet is more mature than romeo and teaches him the meaning of true love." do you agree or disagree with this statement? support your opinion with examples

Back 53

both are immature - they rush too much - barely know each other

Front 54

what literary device are the friar's words in lines 9-11

Back 54

foreshadowing

Front 55

what does friar mean when he says, "therefore, love moderately: long love doth so"

Back 55

take your time - love lasts when you take your time

Front 56

how does act 2 end

Back 56

about to get married

Front 57

how soon after they meet do romeo and juliet marry

Back 57

less than 24 hours

Front 58

now old desire doth in his death bed lie, and young affection gapes to be his heir
WT

Back 58

personification

Front 59

i conjure thee by rosaline's bright eyes by her high forehead and her scarlet lip, b her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh, and the demesnes that there adjacent lie, that in thy likeness thou appear to us!
WT/WS

Back 59

mercutio and dramatic irony

Front 60

it is the east and juliet is the sun
WT WS

Back 60

romeo and metaphor

Front 61

go then for tis in vain to seek him there that mean snot to be found he jests at scars that never felt a wound
WT WS

Back 61

near rhyme and romeo

Front 62

but soft! what light through yonder window breaks? it is the east, and juliet is the sun arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou her maid art far more fair than she. be not her maid, since she is envious
WT WS

Back 62

personification and romeo

Front 63

at lovers perjuries, they say jove laughs. o gentle romeo, if thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully
WT WS

Back 63

mythical allusion and friar

Front 64

i'll frown and v perverse and say thee nay, so thou wilt woo; but else, not for the world. in truth fair montauge, i am too fond, and therefore thou mayst think my havior light
WS

Back 64

friar

Front 65

o swear not by the moon th'inconstant moon, that monthly change sin her circle orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable
WS

Back 65

juliet

Front 66

swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my idolatry
WS

Back 66

juliet

Front 67

although i joy in thee i have no joy of this contract tonight. it is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; too like the lightening, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens. sweet, good night!
WS

Back 67

juliet

Front 68

this bud of love, by summer's ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower when we next meet
WS WT

Back 68

metaphor and juliet

Front 69

o wilt, thou leave me so unsatisfied
WS

Back 69

romeo

Front 70

my bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more i give to thee, the more i have, for both are infinite
WT WS

Back 70

hyperbole and juliet

Front 71

o blessed, blessed night! i am afeard being in night, all this is but a dream, too flattering sweet to be substantial
WS

Back 71

dream and romeo

Front 72

if that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, y one that i'll procure to come to thee, where and what time thou wilt perform the rite
WS

Back 72

juliet

Front 73

love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love, toward school with heavy looks
WS WT

Back 73

love personified and romeo

Front 74

good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow
WS WT

Back 74

juliet and most famous oxymoron

Front 75

good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow that i shall say good night till it be morrow
WS WT

Back 75

rhyming couplet and juliet

Front 76

the gray eyed morn smiles on the frowning night
WS WT

Back 76

friar and personification

Front 77

two such opposed kings encamp them still in man as wella s herbs grace and rude will; and where the worser is predominant, full soon the canker death eats up that plant
WS WT

Back 77

personification and friar

Front 78

not in a grave to lay one in, another out to have
WT WS

Back 78

friar and death imagery

Front 79

for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love
WT WS

Back 79

friar and near rhyming

Front 80

why that same pale hardhearted wench, that rosaline torments him so that he will sure run mad
WT WS

Back 80

mercutio and dramatic irony

Front 81

a sail! a sail!
WT WS

Back 81

romeo and nautical imagery

Front 82

scurvy, knave!
WT WS

Back 82

nurse and epithet

Front 83

she would be as swift in motion as a ball
WT WS

Back 83

juliet and simile

Front 84

the reasons the nurse gives for not giving juliet the news

Back 84

1. tired
2. out of breath
3. have you eaten
4. headache and backache
5. Where is your mother?

Front 85

then hie you hence to friar lawrence's cell; there stays a husband to make you a wife
WS

Back 85

nurse and juliet will be married to romeo after confession by friar lawrence

Front 86

do thou but close our hands with holy words then love devouring death do what he dare it is enough i may but call her mine
WT WS

Back 86

romeo and death imagery

Front 87

these violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which ass they kiss consume.
WT WS

Back 87

friar and foreshadowing

Front 88

therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow
WS what does it mean?

Back 88

friar and his advice to them to take it slow/ take your time