English 9
Name: ___________________________________
Romeo and Juliet: Group Classwork #4
Act 1, Scenes 4-5
Notes on Scene 4
1. In this scene, Romeo and friends are preparing to go to a party. Where? _______________________
2. Have they been invited to this “old accustomed feast”? ___________________________________________
3. We meet a new character, a friend of Romeo’s (but not a Montague): ____________________________
4. At the end of the scene, what is Romeo’s feeling (his “premonition”) about going to the party?
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Group Tasks
1. Read and make sense of lines 25-28. How are Romeo’s and Mercutio’s attitudes about love
different?
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2. Read lines 14-24 and find at least two puns in this joking dialogue between Romeo and
Mercutio. Write the line numbers and the words being punned on in the example box below.
3. Memorize lines ____________________________ in Mercutio’s Queen Mab speech, a monologue in
which Mercutio makes fun of the idea that dreams can be used to predict the future. Be
prepared to recite the lines out loud to the class.
Literary Terms
PUN
Definition:
A play on words that sound the same but have different meanings
Examples:
MONOLOGUE
Definition:
A long speech in a play or story presented by one character
Examples: Write the act, scene, and line numbers for the Queen Mab speech below AND find another
example of a monologue in Act 1, scenes 1 or 3.
Notes Scene 5: At the Capulet Party
1. Romeo has promised not to look at any other girls except the one he loves. Does he keep this
promise? Explain.
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2. Juliet’s cousin, ______________________, tells Juliet’s father to throw Romeo out of the party. Why?
_______________________________________________________. What is Capulet’s response? ___________________
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3. What important action between Juliet and Romeo occurs in this scene? _________________________
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Quotations
Romeo
If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
Juliet
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands the pilgrims hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
Romeo
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
Juliet
Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
Romeo
O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do!
They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
Juliet
Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
Romeo
Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take.
(They kiss.)
Metaphor -- Poem -- Love!
In his “pick-up” line, Romeo uses a complicate
metaphor, identifying Juliet as a shrine or
statue of a saint and himself as a religious
traveler, or pilgrim, to that saint’s shrine.
In these lines, does Juliet reject or accept
Romeo’s bold advances? ____________________
Romeo moves forward, from talking of hands
to talking of ____________________.
Juliet (as “saint”) says that lips should be used
for ________________________
What is Romeo suggesting here?
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Is this a “yes” or a “no” from Juliet? __________
What kind of complex poem have R&J made
in their first conversation? ___________________
Literary Terms
SIMILE
Definition:
A figure of speech that uses “like,” “as,” or “so” to compare two different things
Examples:
What two things does Romeo compare Juliet to in his speech in lines 45-49?