Romeo and Juliet
Act Two (study guide)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Choices and Consequences
Character
Page #
Choice-Sum up the choice the character
made.
Consequence- What happens as a
result of this choice?
ACT TWO - SCENE ONE:
1. What do Benvolio and Mercutio think about Romeo disappearing after the Capulet ball?
2. What literary element is related to question and answer 1?
ACT TWO - SCENE TWO:
(This is the most famous scene in the entire play.)
1. Romeo's soliloquy is in (lines 2-35). Paraphrase what he is saying and what Romeo is struggling with?
2. Juliet speaks to herself (lines 35-50). Paraphrase what she is saying and what she is struggling with?
3. How is Juliet’s speech (#2 above) an example of dramatic irony?
4. After Romeo and Juliet vow their love for one another, what do they decide to do and when?
5. Talk to the text:
Scene 2: pg 71 (Juliet)
‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
belonging to a man, O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
So, Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff they name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself
6. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
ACT TWO - SCENE THREE
1. Friar Laurence has a long soliloquy in the beginning of this scene. He is comparing the good and evil in
nauture/plants as well as men. Give an example of each he talks about:
Nature/plants:
Men:
1. Explain why Friar Laurence thinks Romeo has been up all night and why he has come to talk to Friar Laurence?
2. What does Romeo tell Friar Laurence?
3. Why does Friar Laurence agree to Romeo's request?
4. Talk to the text:
Scene 3: pg 87
Holy Saint Francis! What a change is here!
Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,
So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
Jesu Maria! What a deal of brine
Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!
How much salt water thrown away in waste,
To season love, that of it doth not taste!
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears,
They old groans ring yet in mine ancient ears.
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit
Of an old tear that is not washed off yet.
If e’er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine,
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.
And art thou changed? Pronounce this sentence then:
Women may fall when there’s no strength in men
6. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
ACT TWO - SCENE FOUR
1. What does Mercutio call the nurse?
2. What is the plan that Romeo and the nurse come up with?
3. Talk to the text:
Scene 4: pg 95-96 (Mercutio)
Why, is not this better now than groaning
for love? Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo;
now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by
nature. For this driveling love is like a great natural
that runs lolling up and down to hide bauble in a hole.
4. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
ACT TWO - SCENE FIVE
1. When the nurse finally returns to tell Juliet how her meeting went with Romeo, Juliet becomes irritated, why?
ACT TWO - SCENE SIX
Romeo and Juliet are married in Friar Laurence's cell. This scene foreshadows events to occur. This is stated in
the talking to the text.
1. Talk to the text:
Scene 6: pg 111 (Friar Laurence)
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder;
Which, as they kiss, consume, The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.
2. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
Act Two Figurative Language/Lit Devices
Find one example of each of the following literary terms used anywhere in Act Two (pay attention in class for
hints). First define the term then give the example citing the line numbers/scene numbers.
Term
Personification
Hyperbole
Allusion
Metaphor
Pun
Simile
Dramatic
Irony
Oxymoron
Definition of term
Example of term
Act 2 location(scene/lines)