Test Act 2-3

• Vocabulary

• Quotes

• Literary terms in packet (3.2)– Oxymoron, allusion, metaphor, simile,

puns, personification

• Soliloquy: definition and example

• 3 blessings

• Subtext: what is it? Identify it.

• Irony: dramatic and situational

“A Plague on both your houses” Mercutio

“Oh, I am fortune’s fool.”-Romeo

“Immediately we do exile him hence”- Prince

exposition

• Commentary; the act of describing;opening moments of music or narrative

conjure

• To call upon a supernatural force or being

perverse

• Stubborn or contrary

chide

• To scold

intercession

• To settle a dispute

procure

• To obtain or get; to provide

physi

• natural

envious

• jealous

vestal

• Chaste, virginal

perjury

• To lie

herald

• Announce or deliver

invocation

• prayer

idolatry

• Admiration and devotion for another

Adversity’s sweet milk is…

• philosophy

Art thou a man?

• Take it like a man: standing up.- Friar about Romeo

A pack of blessings lie upon thy back

• 1.Juliet is alive

• 2. Tyblat is dead who would have killed you

• 3. You are banished not killed.

Examples of haste is act 3?

1. Romeo and Juliet’s decision to marry2.Romeo’s decision to kill Tybalt

-code of honor/revenge3. Capulet’s decision to marry Juliet to Paris4. The haste with which Romeo and Juliet

decide to kill themselves after Romeo’s banishment

Subtext: the meaning beneath the line

I pray you tell my lord and father, madam, / I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear/It shall be Romeo whom you know I hate, / Rather than Paris.

Mom Hears: I will not marry. And when I do I would rather marry Romeo, my enemy, than Paris.

Juliet Means:

• I can’t marry Paris because I am already married to Romeo, whom you think I hate.

Juliet: Indeed, I never shall be satisfiedWith Romeo till I behold him-dead-Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed.

Subtext: She won’t be happy until she can hold Romeo in her arms again.

Mom: She thinks Juliet wants to see Romeo dead.

Juliet: I will not marry yet, and when I do I swear

It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate,

Juliet Means: I will not marry Paris, because I am already married to Romeo whom you think I hate

Mom Hears: She would rather marry an enemy like Romeo than marry Paris or any other man.

Dad’s Reaction?

• P.169-171

“An you be not (married) hang,beg,starve, die in the streets,

For, by my soul, I’ll ne’er acknowledge thee,”

Parent/Child

• How has Juliet changed in this scene?

• Is she powerless?

• Is she acting childish? Or is she acting independently?

Who has betrayed her?

Nurse: I think it best you married with the county.

O, he’s a lovely gentelman!

Romeo’s a dishclout to him.