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Memoria Press Romeo and Juliet > Act 2 > Flashcards

Act 2 Flashcards

1
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speaks; communicates

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discourses

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2
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entrust; deliver

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commend

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3
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family members; relatives

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kinsmen

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goodbye; farewell

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adieu

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summoning; calling forth

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invocation

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6
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attribute; relate

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impute

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7
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hostility; hatred

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enmity

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8
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broken vows or oaths

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perjuries

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a soft, heated substance applied to a sore part of the body

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poultice

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10
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one who changes or fluctuates

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waverer

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11
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indecent; naught

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bawdy

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12
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ruins; confuses

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confounds

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13
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persuade or cause to do something

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procure

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14
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rambling; babbling

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drivelling

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15
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sickly; pale

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sallow

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16
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“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.”*
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Friar Lawrence’s surprise

17
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“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.”*
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Romeo’s passion and boldness

18
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a direct, implicit comparison between two unlike things (does not use like, as, or than)

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metaphor

19
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“Well, you have made a simple choice; you know not how to choose a man. Romeo! no, not he …”

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a comment by the Nurse

20
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the repetition of vowel sounds in successive words

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assonance

21
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“O, be some other name!”

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Juliet’s lament

22
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  • “Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,*
  • Having some business, do entreat her eyes*
  • To twinkle in their spheres till they return.”*
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an example of personification

23
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“humors! madmen! passion! lover!”

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Mercutio describing Romeo

24
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happily; willingly

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fain

25
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  • “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”*
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would make a good Central One Idea

Memoria Press Romeo and Juliet (5 decks)

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