Act ii: Rising action

Scenes I & II

• Romeo sneaks around
• Juliet has second thoughts
• Juliet confuses herself and the audience; doubts
• They agree on 9 o'clock

Scenes III & IV

• Romeo tells Friar Laurence of his "undying love"
• Nurse interrogates Romeo
• Mercutio and Benvolio mock Romeo's joy
• Nurse determines purity of Romeo's motives
• Romeo gives wedding plans to Nurse

Scenes V & vi

• Nurse frustrates Juliet
• Friar Lawrence gives Romeo advice
• Romeo doesn't heed the advice
• Romeo and Juliet get married

Types of Conflict

• person vs. person
• person vs. society
• person vs. self

Iambic Pentameter

• Five iambs
• Unstressed and stressed syllables
• Used throughout Shakespeare's plays
• Act II Scene V lines 1-18

Blank verse

• Poetry
• Unrhymed
• Iambic pentameter
• Dramatic poetry
• Act II Scene IV, lines 3-10

couplet

• Two lines that rhyme; same length
• Grammatical pause
• Common in music and poetry
• Lines 136-137 and Lines 159-160 Act II, Scene 2

"I hear some noise within; dear love, adieu!
Anon, good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true."
-Juliet
"Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward
school with heavy looks."
-Romeo

Bibliography

• Elements of Literature. 3rd ed. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2003.
• Wikimedia Commons. Web. 3 Mar. 2015. .
• "Act II Scene 2." Shakespeare Online. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.