Romeo and Juliet
Honors Packet 2, Act II
Scenes 1-6
Keep:
Vocabulary
Skills
Figurative Language Review
Worksheets
Scene 1 (with additional writing prompt) Due:_______
Scene 2 Due: _______
Scene 3 Due:________
Scene 4 Due:________
Scene 5 Due:________
Scene 6 (with additional writing prompt) Due:________
Figurative Language Due:______
Name: _______________________
Period: 1 2 4 5 6 7
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Vocabulary
WORD
Adjacent
DEFINITION
(adj) next to
(n) union
An alliance quickly formed
while they were on the game
show.
(v) to summon
Sometimes the teacher
thinks her students conjure
up plans to make her life
miserable.
He likes to engage in lively
discourse with his vistors.
Alliance
Conjure
Discourse
Doff
Peril
(v) to talk or communicate
(v) to remove
Retain
You will be in great peril if
you do not step back from
that ledge.
(v) to obtain
She managed to procure a
ticket to the concert.
(n) hatred
She answered her accusers
calmly and without rancor.
(v) to keep
It is my hope that you retain
an understanding of these
words for your test!
Woe
(n) sadness; grief
IMAGE
He doffed his cap as he
introduced himself.
(n) danger; risk
Procure
Rancor
SENTENCE
My neighbor’s house is
adjacent to ours.
The city’s traffic woes are
well-known.
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Skills: Monologue, Soliloquy,
Aside
A monologue is a _________________ by a character. Other characters appear on
stage while the person delivering the monologue is on stage.
A soliloquy is a special type of monologue where the character
______________________________.
An aside is a comment made by a character that is heard by the
_____________________________ or another character but is not heard by
_____________________________________________________.
Page 724 (2.2.1-25)
Who is speaking?
Is this a monologue or a soliloquy? Explain.
From page 725, write the Act number, scene number, and line number
(correctly formatted) where an aside is made. Write out the line spoken as an aside.
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Figurative Language
Simile
Definition
Comparing two unlike things using the words
like or as
Example
Tim’s voice booms like the loud
speaker.
Making a direct comparison of two unlike things
The boy is a speeding bullet racing
toward the finish line
Giving human qualities to nonhuman things.
I woke up to the sun smiling down at
me.
The repetition of constant sounds or letters.
The sea shells sang sweet songs.
Obvious and intentional exaggeration
To wait an eternity
A word that imitates the sound it is associated
with
Buzz, Pow, Zip
The continuation of a sentence or phrase from
one line of a poem to the next, without a pause
between lines. (notice how you read without a pause)
Ex: The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee
A rhyme created by two or more words in the
same line of verse
Dr. Seus wrote in iambic tetrameter. If
he had split his lines differently, he
would have used enjambment:
I do not eat green eggs
And ham, I will not eat them, Sam I am
It cracked and growled, and roared and
howled.
A comparison that shows similarities between
two things that are otherwise dissimilar. A writer
may use an analogy to explain something
unfamiliar by comparing it to something familiar
The repetition of consonant sounds, typically
within or at the end of words, that do not rhyme
and preceded by different vowel sounds
We hold the silence / tight between us /
like a live wire, / like a strip of gold /
torn from a wedding brocade
The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds
within nonrhyming words.
Ex: I’ve been trying / to remember the taste, /
but it doesn’t exist
About the town the owl could not be
found.
Metaphor
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onamonapia
Enjambment*
Internal
Rhyme*
Analogy*
Consonance*
Assonance*
Brick-clock
Cannot-recollect
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Cacophony*
Euphony*
Allusion*
Epithet*
Metonymy*
Archaism*
A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
“Everywhere was tumult exultation,
deafening and maniacal bewilderment,
astounding noise, yet furious dumb-show.
“The Prisoners!” “The Records!” “The
secret cells!” “The instruments of torture!”
“The Prisoners!” Of all these cries, and ten
thousand incoherencies, “The Prisoners!”
was the cry most taken up…”
Pleasing or sweet sound; pleasing effect to the
ear, especially a pleasant sounding or
harmonious combination or succession of words
Nature’s first green is gold, / Her
hardest hue to hold. / Her early leafs a
flower;
A reference to a well-known character, place, or
situation from history, music, art, or another
work of literature. Discovering meaning of an
allusion can often be essential to undersanding a
work.
Ex: Edna St Vincent Millay alludes to
Penelope, Odysseus’s wife in the
Odyssey, in her poem “An Ancient
Gesture”: I thought, as I wiped my eyes
on the corner of my apron: / Penelope
did this too.
“the grey-eyed goddess” is Athena
A brief pause used to characterize a person,
place, or thing.
Rhetoric device or figure of speech in which a
thing or concept is not called its own name, but
by the name of something closely associated with
the concept (can be real or fictional)
The use of a form of speech or writing that is no
longer current
Uncle Sam is a name with which the
United States Government is associated
and is often used in place of it.
Hollywood is a metonym for the US
media industry.
The word thee is an archaism because
it’s old and no longer used
*= Pre-AP term
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Name:
Scene I
Period:
Reading Guide
1.How does Mercutio poke fun of Romeo in lines 6-21 on pages 724-725?
2. How is Benvolio once again playing the role of a foil character in this scene?
3. What are some of the problems Romeo faces?
4. How would you feel if you were one of Romeo’s friends right now (Benvolio or
Mercutio)? Explain
Writing Prompt: Think about the warning in the prologue before Act 1. Compare the
message of the first prologue to the Prologue in Act 2. What is different between the
two? Think of the following: “But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, /
Temp’ring extremities with extreme sweet” (2.Prologue.13–14).
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Vocabulary Practice
_____1. The family’s ______ over the loss of their dog was obvious; no one could stop
crying.
A. peril
B. conjure
C. woe
D. alliance
_____2. After being threatened with a detention, he _____ enough energy to finish his
homework.
A. conjured B. periled
C. doffed
D. discoursed
_____3. The old man got frostbite when he ______ his coat during the blizzard to give
to his wife.
A. retained B. doffed
C. adjacented
D. woed
_____4. The child was in great _____ as she walked across the street to her friend;
there was a car
speeding towards her.
A. peril
B. procure
C. rancor
D. alliance
_____5. The science room is ____ to the English room.
A. retain
B. alliance
C. adjacent
D. woe
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Name:
Scene II
Period:
Reading Guide
1. What is Romeo’s tone in his first soliloquy in scene 2 lines 1-25?
A. adoring
B. hateful
C. vengeful
D. uncaring
2. Throughout the scene, Juliet is most concerned with which of the following?
A. Romeo’s safety B. her parents finding them
C. Romeo declaring
his love
3.In a sentence or two, explain what Juliet says about names. Then, do you agree or
disagree with her point? Why?
4. What type of speech is 2.2.85-106?
5. Which of the following is the main idea of the speech at 2.2.85-106?
A. Romeo says he loves Juliet and will risk death for her.
B. Romeo compares Juliet to the stars and states his love for her; he tries to swear
by or on different objects, but Juliet objects to all of them.
C. Juliet is describing a potential plan so they can get married.
D. Juliet says she loves Romeo but worries because they are not following the
traditional order of things regarding marriage.
6. Juliet tells Romeo to NOT swear by the moon. Is there a better thing that Romeo can
swear by? Come up with something better for Romeo to swear by and explain your
reasoning.
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act II Scene II
Romeo speaking on page 725. Lines 1-10
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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.
Her vestal livery is but sick and green,
And none but fools do wear it. Cast if off.
It is my lady! O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
Vocabulary Practice
_____6. It is illegal for you to ______ stolen goods even if you did not steal them yourself.
A. retain
B. peril
C. rancor
D. adjacent
_____7. The _____ created when the two companies merged made their business more
powerful.
A. woe
B. peril
C. doff
D. alliance
_____8. Each week, the teachers get together to ______ about various students.
A. rancor
B. discourse C. conjure
D. doff
_____9. My parents say I must _____ all As and Bs on my report card before I can have a car.
A. procure
B. adjacent
C. doff
D. discourse
_____10. The _____ between the two teams was evident when a fight broke out in the middle
of the
game.
A. procure
B. woe
C. rancor
D. alliance
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Name:
Period:
Scene III
Reading Guide
1. What type of speech is 2.3.1-22?
A. monologue
B. soliloquy
C. aside
2. At the beginning of scene 3, what is Friar Lawrence talking about and working with?
A. holy writings
B. plants
C. love
D. marriage
3. What is Friar Lawrence’s tone in lines 65-80?
A. calm and accepting
B. shocked and amazed
afraid
C. angry and
4. Why does Friar Lawrence initially doubt Romeo’s love for Juliet?
5.. Why does Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act II Scene 3
Romeo speaking to the Friar on page 733 lines 56-64
Then plainly know my heart’s dear love is set
On the fair daughter of rich Capulet;
As mine on her, so hers is set on mine,
And all combin’d, save what thou must
combine
By holy marriage. When and where and how
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We met, we wooed, and made exchange of
vow,
I’ll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray,
That thou consent to marry us today.
Vocabulary Practice
Matching: Match the word to the correct definition. Words are pulled from both Act I and Act
II, so be prepared!
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
_____ Rancor
_____ Posterity
_____ Pernicious
_____ Perverse
_____ Profane
_____ Adjacent
_____ Anguish
_____ Retain
A. future generations
B. next to, neighboring
C. extreme suffering, agony
D. bitter resentment against someone
E. deliberately unreasonable, stubborn
F. to keep possession of
G. destructive, deadly
H. to degrade or disrespect something holy
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Name:
Period:
Scene IV
Reading Guide
1. What has Tybalt sent to Romeo? Explain the significance of this.
2. What were some of Tyblat’s motives?
3. What does the nurse warn Romeo of in 2.4.150-155? What does this show us about
the nurse?
Paraphrasing Practice: Paraphrase the lines below from Act II Scene 4
Nurse speaking to Romeo lines 183-190
Well, sir, miss is the sweetest lady. Lord,
Lord!
When ‘twas a little prating thing – O, there
is a nobleman
In town, one Paris, that would fain lay knife
aboard; but
She, good soul, had as lieve see a toad, a
very toad, as see
Him. 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 many clout in the versal world.
Doth not rosemary
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And Romeo begin both with a letter?
Vocabulary Practice
Fill-in-the-Blank: Choose a word from the list above to fit into each sentence.
1. His _______________________ rage was so terrifying that small children often ran
away from him.
2. When her house burned down, the only item she ______________________ was a
photo album from her grandmother.
3. The soldier suffered extreme _______________________ when he found out that
his comrade had been killed in battle.
4. The two girls shared such _________________________ for each other that they
simply could not even be in the same room together.
For the __________________________ of our society, we need to make sure that we keep
a
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Name:
Period:
Scene V
Reading Guide
1. What type of speech is 2.5.1-17?
2. What is Juliet’s tone in 2.5.1-17?
A. impatient
B. sad
C. joyful
D. apathetic
3. Why does Juliet get so agitated with the Nurse?
4. How does the Nurse describe Romeo?
5. Compare and contrast the Friar and the Nurse.
Summary: In the lines below, summarize Act II Scene 5
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____________________________________________________________
Vocabulary Practice
Fill-in-the-Blank: Choose a word from the list above to fit into each sentence.
1. One of the ponies was extremely agreeable, but the other was so
______________________ that he refused to let even the tiniest child ride him.
2. The football field is ______________________ to the school building.
3. Without meaning to, the young child _____________________ the cemetery with
garbage from the fruit snacks she was eating.
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Name:
Period:
Scene VI
Reading Guide
1. What does Friar Lawrence warn in this scene?
2. What is the overall mood of Act 2 scene 6?
3. How does this scene foreshadow future events? Give specific examples.
Act II- Sequencing
Directions: Put the following elements of Act II in the correct order. Number them 1-11. 1 will be the
first event, and 11 will be the last event.
_____ Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet, but cautions them about violent delights
leading to violent ends.
_____ Friar Lawrence decides that Romeo’s love for Juliet may end the feud between the
Capulet’s and the Montague’s, even though he still feels they are moving too quickly.
_____ Romeo leaps over the Capulet’s orchard wall.
_____ Romeo claims that “love’s light wings” carried him over the Capulet wall.
_____ Romeo tells Juliet to send a messenger to see him at 9:00 to find out the plan for
marriage.
_____ Mercutio makes fun of the nurse, calling her old and ugly.
_____ Juliet swears that she will forsake her Capulet name if it means that Romeo will be with
her.
_____ The nurse becomes extremely overdramatic and refuses to tell Juliet the important
details of the plan. How annoying!
_____ Romeo is upset with Mercutio because he is making fun of love, an emotion he himself
has never experienced.
_____ Romeo tells the nurse to have Juliet pretend to go to confession, but really to meet him
at Friar Lawrence’s cell.
_____ Friar Lawrence is shocked that Romeo has fallen in love with someone new!
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Essay Prompt
Read carefully the two soliloquies found below, both spoken in ActII of Romeo and Juliet. Then
compose a well-organized essay in which you compare and contrast the two speaker’s apparent
points of view regarding the relationship between human and inhuman nature. Consider such
elements as diction, imagery, tone, and figurative language (3-5 paragraphs).
ROMEO
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,
5 That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid, since she is envious;
Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
10 O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing; what of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
15 Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
20 Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I might touch that cheek!
25 She speaks!
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
30 Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air
Name:
Friar
The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels
From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels.
5 Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
What is her burying grave that is her womb,
And from her womb children of divers kind
We sucking on her natural bosom find:
Many for many virtues excellent,
None but for some and yet all different.
15 O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
But to the earth some special good doth give,
Nor aught so good but, strain'd from that fair use,
20 Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse.
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
And vice sometimes by action dignified.
Within the infant rind of this weak flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
25 For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each
part;
Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
30 Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
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Period:
Figurative Language Practice
Quote
Figurative Language Used
(There may be multiple
devices being used: ex:
alliteration and simile, etc)
________ is being
compared to _________.
(explain the figurative
language used/ the
comparison made)
But soft! What light
through yonder window
breaks?
Arise, fair sun, and kill the
envious moon
With love's light wings did I
o'erperch these walls
I have night's cloak to hide
me from their eyes
This bud of love, by summer’s
ripening breath, may prove a
beauteous flower
My bounty is as boundless
as the sea, my love as deep
Love goes toward love as
schoolboys from their
books, but love from love
toward school with
heavy looks
The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars as
sunlight shames a lamp.
The bud of our love will bloom
when we next meet.
Her eyes speak, but not me.
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enjambment
enjambment
analogy
consonance
assonance
archaism
allusion
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