Name: ______Date: ______Period: ___
Romeo and Juliet Act Two Grammar Exercises
PARTS OF SPEECH
Identify the parts of speech in the following sentences. Label the underlined words:
v = verb n = noun adj = adjective adv = adverb
prep = prepositionpron = pronounint = interjection conj = conjunction
____1. She speaks, yet she says nothing.
____2. But trust me, gentleman, I’ll prove more true than those that have more
cunning to be strange.
____3.Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
____4. Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy
as too slow.
SIMPLE, COMPOUND, AND COMPLEX SENTENCES
Label each of the following sentences:
S for simple, C for compound, CX for complex, CCfor compound complex.
____5. If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
____6. This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous
flow’r when next we meet.
____7. Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, and where care lodges,
sleep will never lie.
____8. How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath to say to me that thou
are out of breath?
VERBALS: GERUNDS, INFINITIVES, AND PARTICIPLES
Identify the underlined verbals and verbal phrases in the sentences below as being either
Ger=gerund inf=infinitive par= participle
Also indicate the usage by labeling each: subj = subject d.o. = direct object p. n. = predicate nominative adj = adjective adv = adverb o.p. = object of preposition
______9. Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing.
______10. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say
good night till it be morrow.
______11.Thou chid’st me oft for loving Rosaline.
______12.Hie you to church; I must another way, to fetch a ladder, by the which
your love must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Identify the figurative language in the following sentences. Label underlined words:
p = personification s = simile m = metaphor o = onomatopoeia h = hyperbole
____13. It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
____14. My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to
thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.
____15.A thousand times good night!
____16. How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, like softest music to
attending ears!
____17.The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, check’ring the Eastern
clouds with streaks of light . . .
____18.Care keeps his watch in every old man’s eye, and where care lodges, sleep
will never lie . . .
____19. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love,
toward school with heavy looks.
____20. I warrant thee my man’s as true as steel.
POETIC DEVICES
Identify the poetic devices in the following sentences by labeling the underlined words:
a. assonance b. consonance c. alliteration d. repetition e. rhyme
____21. He hearethnot, he stirrethnot, he movethnot; the ape is dead, and I must
conjure him.
____22. But trust me gentlemen, I’ll prove more true than those that have more
cunning to be strange.
____23. These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like
fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.
____24. . . . and let rich music’s tongue unfold the imagined happiness that both
receive in either by this dearencounter.
SENSORY IMAGERY
Identify the sensory imagery in the following sentences. Label the underlined words:
a. sightb. soundc. touch d. taste e. smell
____25. See how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
____26. O that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!
____27. That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
____28. Within the infant rind of this weak flower poison hath residence, and
medicine power; for this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
ALLUSIONS AND SYMBOLS
Identify the allusions and symbols in the following sentences. Label the underlined words:
a. historical b. mythological c. religious d. folklore and superstition
____29. Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, one nickname for her purblind
son and heir young Abraham Cupid, he that shot so true when Kin Cophetua
loved the beggar main!
____30. O, speak again bright angel! for thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er
my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven . . .
____31. Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized; henceforth I never will be Romeo.
____32. At lovers’ perjuries, they say Jove laughs.
____33. Do not swear at all; or if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, which is the
god of my idolatry, and I’ll believe thee.
____34. Bondage is hoarse and my not speak aloud, else would I tear the cave where
Echo lies and make her airy tongue more hoarse than min with repetition
of ‘Romeo’!