Act 2

Question 1

speaks; communicates

Answer 1

discourses

Question 2

entrust; deliver

Answer 2

commend

Question 3

family members; relatives

Answer 3

kinsmen

Question 4

goodbye; farewell

Answer 4

adieu

Question 5

summoning; calling forth

Answer 5

invocation

Question 6

attribute; relate

Answer 6

impute

Question 7

hostility; hatred

Answer 7

enmity

Question 8

broken vows or oaths

Answer 8

perjuries

Question 9

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

Answer 9

poultice

Question 10

one who changes or fluctuates

Answer 10

waverer

Question 11

indecent; naught

Answer 11

bawdy

Question 12

ruins; confuses

Answer 12

confounds

Question 13

persuade or cause to do something

Answer 13

procure

Question 14

rambling; babbling

Answer 14

drivelling

Question 15

sickly; pale

Answer 15

sallow

Question 16

“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.”*

Answer 16

Friar Lawrence’s surprise

Question 17

“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.”*

Answer 17

Romeo’s passion and boldness

Question 18

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

Answer 18

metaphor

Question 19

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

Answer 19

a comment by the Nurse

Question 20

the repetition of vowel sounds in successive words

Answer 20

assonance

Question 21

“O, be some other name!”

Answer 21

Juliet’s lament

Question 22

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

Answer 22

an example of personification

Question 23

“humors! madmen! passion! lover!”

Answer 23

Mercutio describing Romeo

Question 24

happily; willingly

Answer 24

fain

Question 25

* "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"*

Answer 25

would make a good Central One Idea