| Does Act II start with a prologue? why? | A prologue helps the audience to know what is going on. There was a ball and people falling in love! The prologue reminds us of the danger that the young couple is in and brings us up to speed if we are confused |
| Do Romeo’s friends know about Juliet? | No |
| What is a soliloquy, a monologue, an aside? | Soliloquy: an act of speaking one’s thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play.Monologue: a long speech by one actor in a play or movie, or as part of a theatrical or broadcast program.Aside: a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience but unheard by the other characters in the play |
| If the Capulet party is on Sunday night, what day is it when Romeo and Juliet get married? | Romeo and Juliet get married on Monday |
| What are the two words Romeo calls Juliet that helps her to recognize him in the garden? | Two Words: “Dear Saint” |
| What does Romeo tell the nurse he will send with her that will be his “convoy in the secret night”? | Romeo tells the nurse he will send a rope ladder so Juliet could climb down |
| What is blank verse? | Verse without rhyme, especially that which uses iambic pentameter |
| I will ask you to mark one line of blank verse with unstressed (U) and stressed (/) marks to show iambic pentameter. We practiced this in class. There is information on our class Edline page if you can’t recall what to do. | … |
| A dramatic foil | a minor or less important character who is similar in some way to a major or more important character, and who appears (often alone) in a scene with a major character in order to help the audience notice some characteristics of the major character |
| So smile the heavens upon this holy act/ That after hours with sorrow chide us not. | Friar Laurence to Romeo and Juliet (blessing marriage) |
| But come, young waverer, come go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households rancor to pure love | Friar Laurence to Romeo |
| O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? (what does it mean?) | Juliet to herself |
| What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet | Juliet to Romeo |
| Lord, how my head aches! What a head have I! It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces. My back a t’other side – – ah, my back, my back | Nurse to Juliet |
| I have no joy in this contract tonight it is too rash, to unadvised, too sudden | Juliet to Romeo |
| Why, is this not better now than groaning for love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo | Mercutio to Benvoilio |
| I anger her sometimes and tell her that Paris is the properer man; but I’ll warrant you, when I say so she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world | Nurse to Romeo |
| Is Rosaline that thou did’st love so dear so soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies no truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. | Friar to Romeo |
| O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable. | Juliet to Romeo |
| O blessed, blessed night! I am afeard being in night, all this is but a dream, too flattering-sweet to be substantial. | Romeo to Romeo |
| If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. | Juliet to Nurse |
| How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou art out of breath? | Juliet to Nurse |
Romeo and Juliet Retake 2
September 6, 2019