Romeo and Juliet questions and answer for class 12. Notes of the lesson Romeo and Juliet is explained for second PUC exam preparation.
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Question and answer form Romeo and Juliet for 2nd PUC students
Romeo and Juliet lesson one marks questions and answers
1 Mark Questions
1. What according to Romeo does Juliet teach to burn bright?
Answer: Juliet teaches the torches to burn bright. Romeo is saying that Juliet is so beautiful that her beauty is brighter than a torch.
2. Who according to Romeo teaches the torches to burn bright?
Answer: According to Romeo Juliet teach to burn bright.
3. Who is compared to a ‘rich jewel in an Ethiopia’s ear’ by Romeo?
Answer: Juliet is compared to ‘rich jewel’ in an ‘Ethiope’s ear ‘ by Romeo.
4. Who is compared to a ‘snowy dove’ by Romeo?
Answer: Juliet, the gorgeous girl, is compared to a ‘snowy dove’ by Romeo.
5. Whom does Romeo address as ‘yonder lady’?
Answer: Juliet is addressed as ‘yonder lady’
6. Whose beauty according to Romeo is too rich for use?
Answer: According to Romeo, Juliet’s beauty is too rich for use.
7. When according to Juliet would all the world be in love with night?
Answer: According to Juliet, when Romeo is set up as a star in the sky, he will make the face of heaven so fine that the world would be in love with night.
8. Who are compared to crows by Romeo?
Answer: Romeo compares other ladies in the hall to a flock of crows.
Question and answer form Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet lesson 4 marks questions and answers
1. How does Romeo glorify Juliet’s flawless beauty?
Answer: Romeo glorifies Juliet’s beauty by comparing her to fire, claiming that her beauty has a power which has the capability of giving warmth to lives as well as taking away lives. He then compares her to planets and stars claiming that her beauty is that of other world and is exotic.
2. How does Romeo describe Juliet?
Answer: Romeo is overwhelmed by the beauty of Juliet and so he exclaims and says that Juliet is brighter than the blaze of the torches. Next, he compares Juliet to a jewelled earring hanging against the cheek of an African. He then praises her beauty likening Juliet to a white dove in the midst of a flock of crows.
3. Juliet’s beauty was too rich for use. How does Romeo describe it?
Answer: He says her “beauty too rich for use, for earth to dear.” Compared to the other women at the party, Juliet is like a white dove among crows. He famously says he “ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” In Act II, during the famous balcony scene, Romeo glorifies Juliet’s beauty by saying Juliet is the sun.
4. Romeo’s appreciation of Juliet’s beauty is expressed through images. Explain.
Answer: Romeo uses two similes to describe Juliet’s extraordinary beauty. The first simile is deployed in the lines “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” The second simile is deployed in the lines: “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o’er her fellow’s shows.”
Notes of the lesson Romeo and Juliet for second PUC
5. How does Juliet express her love for Romeo?
Answer: The intensity of love between Romeo and Juliet is brought out in Juliet’s soliloquy in which she addresses Romeo as ‘day in the night’. She imagines night like a bird and believes that Romeo will come gliding on the wings of a night like ‘new snow’ on a raven’s back.
6. How does Juliet intend to make Romeo immortal?
Answer: Juliet wishes to make her Romeo an immortal being by requesting the night to take him and cut him out in little stars in the sky after her death, so that he will make the face of heaven so fine. She convinces the night that Romeo replaces the garish sun by glowing in the night, then people stop to fear for night.
7. Why does Juliet want Romeo to be cut out in little stars?
Answer: In Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet,” Juliet expresses her desire for Romeo to be cut out in little stars in order to immortalize him and preserve his memory. She feels that Romeo’s love and passion are too great to be contained by his mortal body and that his essence should be spread throughout the universe. By transforming Romeo into stars, Juliet suggests that his love will shine eternally, even after his death.
Romeo and Juliet notes for class 12
Romeo and Juliet lesson 6 marks questions and answers (Romeo and Juliet questions and answer for class 12)
1. Both Romeo and Juliet employ contrasting images in their expression of appreciation and admiration for each other. Elaborate.
Answer: Romeo draws upon light imagery to describe Juliet. When he likens Juliet to the sun rising in the East. He then goes on to describe the light that seems to emanate from Juliet’s extraordinary beauty: “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars As daylight doth a lamp.” Just as daylight is brighter than any lamp, so too does Juliet’s beauty shine more brightly than the stars in the heavens.
In contrast, Juliet uses imagery associated with darkness to describe Romeo. In her soliloquy at the beginning of act III, scene ii, she draws upon Greek mythology to express her impatient longing for the night when Romeo will be at her side during their honeymoon:
Later on, Juliet uses the imagery of the nightingale, a bird associated with night, to express her wish that the night will go on just that little bit longer before the dawn breaks which will usher in the day when Romeo will be forced to leave Verona for exile in Mantua:
2nd puc english romeo and juliet notes
2. Feelings of Romeo and Juliet for each other are expressed with intensity. Discuss.
Answer: The intensity of love between Romeo and Juliet is brought out in Juliet’s soliloquy in which she addresses Romeo as ‘day in the night’. She imagines night like a bird and believes that Romeo will come gliding on the wings of a night like ‘new snow’ on a raven’s back. Then, addressing the ‘night’ as ‘gentle night’ and ‘blackbrowed night, she implores it to bring her Romeo to her.
Next, she asks the night to set Romeo up in heaven as a star so that he will make the face of heaven beautiful and charming. She hopes that when that happens, ‘all the world will be in love with night and will not pay attention to the overbright or lurid sun’. In short, love belongs to Juliet now that she is married, but she does not own it, and she can’t own love until Romeo possesses her. That is why there are so much longing and impatience in her request tonight.
2nd puc english romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet questions and answer for class 12)
3. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ provides an insight into the use of poetic devices in expressing human feelings. Explain.
Answer: Thus Shakespeare uses emotive language to associate it with the theme of love to demonstrate Romeo’s love/feelings for Juliet and to create drama. Thus one can undoubtedly say that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ provides an insight into the use of poetic devices. Juliet’s love for Romeo finds an expression of exaggeration.
Another simile that Romeo uses to convey this beauty is when he says she is “like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear.” Romeo uses this simile to say that Juliet’s beauty is rare, priceless, and something to be heavily desired by all that lay eyes on it.
Scene 5, lines 104-117 Romeo and Juliet’s first encounter: Juliet is compared to a saint and Romeo is compared to a pilgrim. Saints can’t move and she is reserved and cautious. Romeo is a pilgrim because he is seeking her love. This encounter is a sonnet as well, so an example of Rhymed Verse.
Notes of the lesson Romeo and Juliet
4. Juliet’s love for Romeo finds expression in exaggeration. Explain.
Answer: It would be very unfair to Shakespeare’s mastery of poetic art and also to Juliet’s characterization if we were to conclude that Juliet’s love for Romeo finds expression in exaggeration. It is worth noting that both the actions – Romeo meeting Juliet in the dance hall and Juliet waiting for Romeo, happen at night Secondly, both the lovers are young, innocent, dreamy and inexperienced in love.
Both of them have entered a new world and until their love for each other is secured through consummation, Moreover, both of them have fallen in love at first sight and naturally, their emotional outpourings must contain a description of their physical beauty.
Naturally, Juliet’s language is hyperbolic. Though ‘hyperbole’ is generally defined as ‘exaggeration’, it is not in the ordinary sense. Here ’hyperbole’ is a poetic device and it has been appropriately used for enhancing the dramatic effect One must also remember that plays are meant to be performed. Therefore, while reading a play one must also visualize the action. Therefore, whatever Juliet says is not exaggeration but the emotional outpourings of a young lady who has met her lover for the first time and that too only for a short time.