Word Choice in Act II of Romeo & Juliet

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  1. 1. Juliet describes leaving Romeo for the evening in this way, which is an oxymoron.
  2. 4. This is another mythological character alluded to in Scene 2.
  3. 7. Romeo says that "the brightness of Juliet's ____ would shame the stars."
  4. 9. Friar Lawrence discusses these opposing qualities in his soliloquy.
  5. 11. Juliet wishes that Romeo would "deny [his] father and refuse [his] name;" this is another word for it.
  6. 12. The friar uses both personification and metaphor when he says Romeo's "love did ___ that could not spell." (Ouch. The truth hurts.)
  7. 13. Juliet uses this rhetorical devices when she asks whether they are being "too rash, too unadvised, too sudden."
  8. 15. Friar Lawrence warns the lovebirds that such haste and intensity is like a stomachache after eating too much ___.
  9. 17. the rhetorical device used when Jove is referenced in Scene 2 as "laugh[ing] at lovers' perjuries." (So...is he laughing, or no?)
  10. 18. Romeo compares Juliet to this in the beginning of Scene 2.
  11. 19. The prologue includes this metaphor to emphasize Romeo and Juliet's forbidden, dangerous love.
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  1. 2. The friar uses this phrase to describe the idea that both poison and medicine can be found in plants.
  2. 3. In the wedding scene, the friar shares a very important (and foreboding) truth: "These violent delights have ____," which means they would be wise to "love moderately."
  3. 5. Friar Lawrence chides Romeo about the seemingly insincere (and still wet!) tears for Rosaline on his cheeks.
  4. 6. If Romeo's intention is indeed marriage, she swears that she will "____ [him] throughout the world."
  5. 8. This "lent [Romeo] counsel," which lands him right in Juliet's backyard!
  6. 10. Romeo exaggerates when he says that his life would be better ended by her kinsmen's "hate" than "death ___, wanting of [her] love."
  7. 12. Juliet emphasizes the identity of a person by comparing this to one's name.
  8. 14. Romeo says that this "cannot hold love out, and what love can do, that dares love attempt."
  9. 16. For Romeo, this interaction with Juliet is "too sweet to be ___."