Romeo and Juliet Act 2, Romeo & Juliet

He lept over the Capulet's wall to the garden and he still pines for Rosaline.

Why do Mercutio and Benvolio laugh at Romeo at the beginning of Act 2?

Death

What might happen to Romeo if he is found in the Capulet's garden?

Sun

Juliet is Romeo's?

The moon is fickle and changes often.

Why doesn't Juliet want Romeo to swear by the Moon?

He hopes it will end the Feud between the Capulet and the Montague family.

Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because..?

Romeo is so indecisive when it comes to love.

Friar Laurence is surprised by the reason for Romeo's visit.. why?

Romeo's name is an accident of birth. It is not an essential part of who he really is.

"What is a Montaque?, It neither hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor a face... I wish you had some other name. What is a name..?" (Translate)

Romeo and Juliet at the end of Act 2.

Friar Laurence marry...

Nurse

Mercutio is unkind and ridicules the..?

She is testing Juliet's patience. She wants to see Juliet squirm and worry.

The nurse arrives late to see Juliet with news about the wedding.. because...?

To challenge Romeo for "crashing the Capulet party."

Why does Tybalt send a letter to Lord Montague?

Juliet

She is called a bright angel.

Friar Laurence

He agrees to perform the wedding ceremony.

Tybalt

Challenges Romeo to a duel.

By pretending to go to confession.

How will Juliet sneak away to Friar Lawrence's cell?

Do not love too intensely .

What advice does Friar Lawrence give Romeo before the wedding?

"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3).

metaphor - it compares Juliet to the sun

"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" (2.2.4).

personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is envious (jealous).

"Who is already sick and pale with grief

that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she" (2.2.5-6).

personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is sick and pale with grief.

"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,

as daylight doth a lamp..." (2.2.19-20).

hyperbole - exaggeration. Juliet's cheek is so bright it puts the brightness of stars to shame.

"...her eyes in heaven

Would through the airy region stream so bright

That birds would sing and think it were not night" (2.2.20-22).

hyperbole - exaggeration. If Juliet's eyes were like stars in heaven looking down on us, it would be so bright that birds would be singing because they thought it was daytime.

"O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as a winged messenger of heaven..." (2.2.28-30).

metaphor - Romeo compares Juliet to a "bright angel"

simile - she is AS glorious to the night AS a "winged messenger of heaven"

"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out" (2.2.70-71).

hyperbole - love gave him wings to climb over the walls and reach Juliet.

"...there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!" (2.2.75-76).

hyperbole - Romeo claims there is more danger in Juliet's eyes than in twenty of her relatives coming at him with their swords.

"I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes" (2.2.79).

personification - night does not have a cloak.

"Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face..." (2.2.89).

metaphor - compares the darkness of night to a mask.

"Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-nite; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens" (2.2.122-126).

simile - Juliet compares their "contract", or promises of love, to lightning. It is sudden and quick - lightning disappears from the sky before you can say there was lightning.

"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet..." (2.2.127-128).

personification - summer does not have "ripening breath"

metaphor - compares their love to a flower bud

"Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books..." (2.2.165).

simile - compares how lovers go to lovers with the same joy as schoolboys leave their schoolwork behind.

"... But love from love, toward school with heavy looks" (2.2.166).

metaphor - compares how lovers leave one another with the same unhappiness schoolboys experience when going to school.

"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears" (2.2.175-176).

simile - compares the sound of lovers talking at night to soft music.

"...'tis twenty years til then" (2.2.182).

hyperbole - exaggeration. The short time they are apart will feel like 20 years.

"...I would have thee gone; -- and yet no farther than a wanton's bird, that lets it hop a little from her hand..." (2.2.189-191).

metaphor - Juliet expresses how closely she wishes Romeo could stay to her by comparing him to a bird kept on a chain that can only "hop a little from her hand"

hyperbole - exaggeration of just how close she wants to keep Romeo

"...like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves (chains), and with a silk thread plucks it back again, so loving-jealous of his liberty" (2.2.192-194).

simile - compares the bird (Romeo) to a "poor prisoner"

Shakespeare includes a soliloquy at the beginning of Scene 3 to reveal Friar Laurence's belief in:

nature's balance explaining that people are both good and evil

"She speaks, yet she says nothing. Her eye discourses" means:

Juliet is voiceless, yet her thoughts and feelings can be read in her face

What does Juliet mean when she says, "What's in a name? that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"?

You can call Romeo a rose, and he would still be Romeo

Why does Juliet bid Romeo to "swear not by the moon"?

The moon changes often, and she fears that swearing by it might make his love just as variable

What does the following mean: "therefore, love moderately; long love doth so."?

If you love too much or too little, it will not last

Friar Laurence agrees to perform the marriage ceremony for Romeo and Juliet for what reason?

He thinks it might put an end to the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues

Friar Laurence is hesitant to marry Romeo and Juliet because

Romeo falls in love way too quickly

Which literary element is the following line: "Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say goodnight til it be morrow."?

oxymoron

Which literary element is: "How silver sweet sound lovers' tongues by night"?

alliteration

Which literary element is: "No hare, sir; unless a hare, sir, in a lenten pie, that is something stale and hoar ere it be spent"?

pun

Which literary element is: "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume"?

Foreshadowing

Where do Romeo and Juliet first declare their love for each other?

On the balcony

What does Friar Laurence mean when he says "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts but in their eyes"?

Romeo is not in love but in lust

In Act 2, Scene 2, Juliet is going to send someone to Romeo on the following day for what purpose?

To get information about where and when they will be married

Who accompanied the nurse to seek Romeo?

Peter, a servant of the Capulets

What does Romeo mean in the following line: " He jests at scars that never felt a wound"?

Only those who have never been in love joke about love