Act 2 Flashcards
speaks; communicates
discourses
entrust; deliver
commend
family members; relatives
kinsmen
goodbye; farewell
adieu
summoning; calling forth
invocation
attribute; relate
impute
hostility; hatred
enmity
broken vows or oaths
perjuries
a soft, heated substance applied to a sore part of the body
poultice
one who changes or fluctuates
waverer
indecent; naught
bawdy
ruins; confuses
confounds
persuade or cause to do something
procure
rambling; babbling
drivelling
sickly; pale
sallow
“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.”*
Friar Lawrence’s surprise
“With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls,
- For stormy limits cannot hold love out …*
- Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.”*
Romeo’s passion and boldness
a direct, implicit comparison between two unlike things (does not use like, as, or than)
metaphor
“Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man. Romeo! no, not he …”
a comment by the Nurse
the repetition of vowel sounds in successive words
assonance
“O, be some other name!”
Juliet’s lament
- “Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,*
- Having some business, do entreat her eyes*
- To twinkle in their spheres till they return.”*
an example of personification
“humors! madmen! passion! lover!”
Mercutio describing Romeo
happily; willingly
fain
- “These violent delights have violent ends,*
- And in their triumph die; like fire and powder,*
- Which, as thy 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”*
would make a good Central One Idea
