Summarize the main plot points from Acts 1 & 2Romeo and Juliet

As a five act play, Romeo and Juliet has a clear division
of plot. Act I provides the exposition and Act II has the rising action.  Here are
some key features of these
acts:

ACT I

• The
  feud is introduced to the audience with the posturing of Sampson and Gregory, Capulet
  servants, and Balthasar and Abraham, Montague servant.
  


• That the feud is problematic is evident with the long
  speech of the Prince, who warns them that anyone who breaks the peace with be punished
  by death.


• Romeo's parents seek their son, who is morose
  over his unrequited love for Rosalind, who is going to a
  nunnery.


• Benvolio tries to cheer up Romeo, urging him to
  attend the party for Juliet that the servant who cannot read tells them
  about.


• Paris discusses his desire to marry Juliet with
  Lord Capulet, who suggests he wait "two more
  summers."


• However, Lady Capulet urges her daughter to
  consider Paris as a suitor, but Juliet reluctantly agrees to "look to like, if looking
  liking move."


• Mercutio playfully embarks upon a
  long-winded monologue about Queen Mab in order to entertain, but the serious Romeo
  impatiently tells him, "Thou talk'st of nothing."


• As they
  approach the Capulet party, Romeo senses fate, fearing "Some
  consequence."


• Romeo and the others arrive at the party
  and he sees Juliet across the room and is
  starstruck.


• After she talks with Romeo, Juliet, too, is
  smitten.  When she learns who Romeo is, she exclaims, "My only love sprung from my only
  hate!"

ACT
II

• Totally infatuated with Juliet, Romeo runs
  from the others and scales the orchard walls to stand under Juliet's balcony where he
  secretly listens to her.


• When Juliet bemoans that he is a
  Montague, Romeo speaks aloud, startling her.


• Romeo
  declares his love for Juliet, swearing by the moon; Juliet cautions him that the moon is
  fickle, and that they me too rash.


• But Romeo persuades
  her to declare her "love's faithful vow" for his.


• Romeo
  departs as the Nurse calls to Juliet, and hurries to the cell of Friar
  Laurence


• Friar Laurence, in a soliloquy remarks on the
  herbs that he picks; his speech foreshadows what is to come in the play.
  

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Virtue itself turns vice, being
misapplied,

And vice sometime's by action
dignified.

• Romeo
  arrives in the friar's cell and tells him about Juliet; Friar Laurence urges caution: 
  "Wisely and slow.  They stumble that run fast."


• Mercutios
  and Benvolio are on a street in Verona, discussing a letter of challenge that Tybalt has
  sent to the Montagues.


• In a humorous scene the Nurse is
  the object of Mercutio's ridicule.  Providing comic relief, Mercutio call her a "sail,"
  and she retorts with bawdy jokes.


• Impatiently, Juliet
  awaits the Nurse's return.  Finally, when the Nurse arrives, she is yet garrulous, but
  does tell Juliet to go to Friar Laurence's cell where Romeo will marry
  her.


• Friar Laurence continues to urge caution, saying
  that "violent delights have violent ends."  He tells Romeo to love moderately so it will
  last.


• The priest performs the marriage ceremony for Romeo
  and Juliet.