How to identify when Nurse is speaking? | her use of language |
“If ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say” | Nurse |
“Then love-devouring Death do what he dare,It is enough I may but call her mine” | Romeo |
“I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give:Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.” | Lady Capulet |
“Mercy but murderers, pardoning those that kill.” | Prince |
“A plague a’both your houses!” | Mercutio |
“And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl,For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.” | Benvolio |
“I’ll give thee armour to keep off that word:Adversity’s sweet milk, philosophy.” | Friar Lawrence |
“Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art;Thy tears are womanish” | Friar Lawrence |
“I would the fool were married to her grave” | Lady Capulet |
“Methinks I see thee now thou art so as one dead at the bottom of the tomb” | Juliet |
“Out you green sickness carrion, out you baggage” | Lord Capulet |
“I’ll to the Friar to know his remedy,if all else fail, myself have power to die” | Juliet |
“I think it best you married with the County,Oh, he is a lovely gentleman.” | Nurse |
“These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die like fire and powder.” | Friar Lawrence |
“Oh I am Fortune’s fool!” | Romeo |
“Wisely and slow they stumble that do run fast” | Friar Lawrence |
“Two such opposed kings encamp them still,and man as well as herbs grace and rude will | Friar Lawrence |
“o calm dishonorable vile submission” | Mercutio |
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea,my love is deep the more I give to thee the more I have for both are infinite.” | Juliet |
“It is my soul that calls my name” | Romeo |
(Described) “I pray you sir, what saucy merchant was that was so full of his ropery?” | Mercutio |
(Described) “O he is the courageous captain of compliments.” | Tybalt |
(Described) “Thou hast quarreled with a man for coughing in the street because he hath waken thy dog that hath lain asleep in the sun” | Benvolio |
(Described) “He is a kinsmen to the Montague, affection makes him false, he speaks not true” | Benvolio |
(Described) “Ancient damnation, oh most wicked fiend” | Nurse |
Prince of Cats | Tybalt because of fencing style |
What does Mercutio declare he intends to take from Prince of Cats? | one of the nine lives |
How is the street brawl in Act III similar to the street brawl in Act I? | both start by teasing, airy word, Benvolio tries to keep the peace, both street brawls |
What is ironic about Lady Capulet’s plans for Romeo after he is banished? | Lady Capulet wants to use a hit man to poison Romeo and Romeo kills himself using poison |
Friar Lawrence’s plan for Romeo after banishment. | 1. spend the night with Juliet2. leave town early in the morning3. I will send messages about Juliet4. Let things die down5. Then I will announce the marriage and ask for pardon |
Type of figurative language Mercutio likes to use. | puns usually with sexual nature |
What does Lord Capulet threaten to do to Juliet if she does not marry Paris? | disown, disinherit, leave her out on the streets |
After hearing of Romeo’s banishment and Tybalt’s death, Juliet says she is now wedded to… | Death |
What is the day of the week that Romeo spends the night with Juliet? | Monday |
Monday | early-balcony9-nurse meets with Romeothen marriageRomeo kills TybaltRomeo gets planRomeo spends the night with Juliet |
The relevance of the nightingale and the lark in Romeo’s and Juliet’s convo before parting? | night and day birdJuliet says that it was the nightingale that they heard so Romeo does not have to leave |
(literary device) parting is such sweet sorrow | oxymoron/alliteration |
(literary device) O Fortune, Fortune all men call the fickle | alliteration/personification |
(literary device) Sir Paris I will make a desperate tender of my child’s love, I think she will be ruled in all respect by me. | dramatic irony |
(literary device) O, serpent heart hid with a flowering face, did ever dragon keep so fair a cave | antithesis |
(meaning) fond | foolish |
(meaning)dishclout | dishcloth |
(meaning) ere | ever/before |
(meaning) unruly spleen | temper |
(meaning)saucy | sassy |
(meaning)gadding | chatting |
(meaning)green sickness carrion | moldy meat |
(meaning)cords | ladder |
(meaning) chop logic | riddles |
Romeo and Juliet Act II-III
September 7, 2019