Romeo says about Mercurio making fun of him: (quote) | “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” |
what does “He jests at scars that never felt a wound.” mean? | Is it easier for Mercutio to make fun of Romeo’s emotional pain because he has never been hurt from love |
Romeo says this when Juliet comes out onto her balcony | “But soft! What light yonder window breaks. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” |
“But soft! What light yonder window breaks. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”: Type of imagery, figure of speech | light, metaphor |
Romeo compres Juliet walking through the balcony window onto the balcony to | a bright sun that has risen in the East and taken the beauty away from the moon |
entreat | beg |
Summary of Romeo’s monologue | If stars and eyes switched placed, Juliet’s cheek will be bright, eyes bring daylight to the sky |
Romeo’s monologue type of imagery | extended light |
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” means… | Why does Romeo have to be her enemy? Why does Romeo have to be Romeo? |
What does Juliet say about Romeo’s name? | “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet.” |
flower symbolism | light to survive |
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other word would smell as sweet.” type of imagery, meaning | flower, there is not real importance in a name to a person, for it does not change his personality or physical features. |
Juliet’s questions are _____, while Romeo’s are _____ | literal, poetic |
Example of the Juliet’s literal questions and Romeo’s poetic ones | juliet: Thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? Romeo: light wings and did I o’er perch these walls |
Romeo says, “For stony limits….” | cannot hold love out. And what of can do that dares love attempt |
When Juliet is worried that Romeo will be caught, what does he say? | “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes.” |
Romeo and Juliet can only see each other ____ | at night |
Of the two lovers, Juliet is _____ and ______ | practical, cautious |
Of the two lovers, Romeo is ____ and _____ | romantic, reckless |
Juliet says to Romeo, “I have no joy of this contract tonight….” | It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden. Too like the lightning which doth cease to be/Ere one can say it lightens” |
What does Juliet mean by comparing their contract to lightning? | Their love is developing quickly. Lightning strikes quickly and goes away, so it foreshadows what will happen to their quick relationship |
How does Juliet use a metaphor to compare their love to a bud? | This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” |
Who proposes marriage? | Juliet- to be courteous and generous so that it wold be suggested before they part |
“Parting is such sweet sorrow” is an ________ | oxymoron |
How can parting be both sweet and sorrowful? | Sweet: they will look forward to seeing each other again, sorrowful: they have to leave each other |
Act 2, Scene 2 Romeo and Juliet
July 2, 2019