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What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward! (1.1.68-70)
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R & J Quotes Test
R & J Quotes Test Notes
| Quote | Possible Responses |
|---|---|
| What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. Have at thee, coward! (1.1.68-70) | Tybalt to Benvolio |
| (blank) | CHARATER; Tybalt is filled with hate and violence |
| (blank) | PLOT; Re-starts fight, when we thought there would be peace; shows rivalry, this leads to the Prince's threat which impacts the plot later |
| At this same ancient feast of Capulet's sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest, with all the admired beauties of Verona. Go thither; and, with unattainted eye, compare her face with some that I shall show, and I will make thee think thy swan a crow. | Benvolio to Romeo (1.2.82-87) |
| (blank) | PLOT; Thickens, we know Romeo will meet Juliet |
| (blank) | MEANING; A comment on the nature of love; all about looks for Benevolio |
| (blank) | ECHO; of Capulet's advice to Paris; look at other women. |
| (blank) | SYMBOL; beauty = swan |
| Well, think of marriage now; younger than you, here in Verona, ladies of esteem, are made already mothers. By my count, I was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid. Thus then in brief: the valiant Paris seeks you for his love 1.3.70-75 | Lady Capulet to Juliet (and Nurse) |
| (blank) | PLOT; 2nd half of fated metting, both have other interests |
| (blank) | DRAMATIC IRONY; We know who is fated to love, but characters don't. |
| (blank) | ECHO; 3rd time "look and see" advice is given. |
| I fear, too early; for my mind misgives some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, shall bitterly begin his fearful date with this night's revels, and expire the term of a despised life closed in my breast by some vile forfeit of untimely death. | Romeo to Benvolio and Mercutio (1.4.106-111) |
| (blank) | FORESHADOWS; Party will lead to ill-fate |
| (blank) | MOOD; Characters know about their doom; fateful magesty |
| O,she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an ethiopes ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!...Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight?For I ne'er saw true beauty till now | Romeo to himself (soliliquay) |
| (blank) | MEANING; very beautiful |
| (blank) | THEME; romatic love; see's juliet at party falls immidiatly in love |
| (blank) | OTHER; romeo's love jumps from rosaline to juliet; is he shallow or is new love even stronger than before? |
| My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy.(1.5.138-141) | juliet to nurse (or herself) |
| (blank) | MEANING; fell in love too quick before it was known that he was the enemy |
| (blank) | THEME; starcrossed lovers; love when should hate |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; juliet loves instantly and for sure |
| (blank) | PLOT; just met romeo and is told that he is a montague |
| (blank) | FORESHADOW; prodigious and omnious feeling |
| But soft, what light through yonger window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. (2.2.2-6) | Romeo to himself (soliliquay) |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; romeo uses images of brightness to describe juliet; e.g. sun |
| (blank) | PLOT; most famous scene; they first meets, most impassioned scene of romantic love? |
| O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn by love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet. (2.2.33-36) | juliet to self (romeo listens) |
| (blank) | MEANING; why are you romeo? |
| (blank) | THEME; their loves instantly overcomes their families rivalry |
| (blank) | PLOT; moves quick, confesses her love because he heart her before |
| (blank) | FORESHADOWS; hey denying her family |
| Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.(2.3.94) | friar lawrence to romeo |
| (blank) | MEANING; not to run, literally |
| (blank) | OTHER; double or triple meaning |
| (blank) | MEANING; take time in love, avoid bad results |
| (blank) | FORESHADOWING; daring death, take time,etc. |
| These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite; therefore love moderately | friar lawrence to romeo (more... long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.) |
| (blank) | THEME; too quick and passionate of love cannot last |
| (blank) | FORESHADOWING; not wise or slow in love = bad ending |
| Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance, not of ornament. They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess. I cannot sum up sum of half my wreath. (2.6.30-34) | juliet to romeo and friar lawrence |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; juliet seems to be more grounded and sincere than romeo who speaks with ornament. |
| (blank) | MOOD; joy while wedding romeo |
| Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villan am I none; therefore farewell; I see thou know'st me not. (3.1.61-64) | romeo to tybalt |
| (blank) | PLOT; romeo responds to tybalts hatred with love because of his marriage and since he is juliet's cousin |
| (blank) | PLOT; romeo's words have grave consequences; mercutio stands up for him |
| No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but tis' enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! (3.1.95-99) | mercutio to benevolio and romeo (directed to capulets and montagues) |
| (blank) | PLOT; mercutio is dying, romeo feels guilty |
| (blank) | CLIMAX; of tragedy, new conflict brings more conflicts. |
| (blank) | COMPLICATION; romeo will kill tybalt and be exiled; juliet will be doubly in mourning |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; mercutio makes wise cracks while dying |
| O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st | juliet (about romeo) to nurse. (more...a damned saint, an honorable villan) |
| (blank) | PLOT; juliet overreacts because she doesn't how tybalt started it - makes makes immidiate forgiveness of romeo later more powerful |
| (blank) | PLOT; climax is over, killing is as dire as is seems; bad consequences |
| (blank) | OXYMORONS; shows juliet's confusion and how she see's romeo (dual nature) |
| (blank) | THEME; overpowering love; doesn't understand situation but still doesn't blame romeo |
| As if that name, shot from the deadly level of a gun, dial murdur her, as that name's a cursed hand murdur'd her kinsman. O, tell me, friar, tell me in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack the hateful mansion. | romeo to friar lawrence and nurse |
| (blank) | PLOT; romeo is afraid that juliet hates him for killing tybalt. romeo himself is suicidal at the situation; he is banished and things look dark. |
| (blank) | IMAGE/THEME OF NAMES; echo's juliet balcony scene (what's in a name) |
| Well, get you gone; o' thursday be it, then, go you to juliet, ere you go to bed; Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. Farewell my lord. Light to my chamber, ho! (3.4.30-33) | capulet to paris and lady capulet |
| (blank) | PLOT; another post-climatic complication to hasten tragedy; capulet decided juliet will marry paris in 3 days; her secret marriage to romeo is in trouble. |
| O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below. As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails or thou look'st pale. (3.5.54-57) | juliet to romeo |
| (blank) | THEME; love, emphasizes the horror of their seperation; it's like death |
| (blank) | FORESHADOWS; the death of romeo |
| If, rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then is it likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame, that thou copest with death himself to 'scape from it | friar lawrence to juliet (more... and if thou darest I'll give thee remedy) 4.1.71-76 |
| (blank) | PLOT; friar lawrence has a desperate plan to avoid the double wedding; juliet will take potion and fall into coma, everyone will think she's dead and romeo will come and get her from her grave and they will escape together. |
| (blank) | POTENTIAL; to go wrong |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; juliet's faithfulness, would never marry paris; would rather flirt with death. |
| Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light, since this same wayward girl is so reclaim'd. (4.2.46-47) | capulet to lady capulet |
| (blank) | PLOT; belives that juliet will obey and marry paris. but she is only faking it as a part of friar lawrence's plan to fake death and escape. |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; juliet doesn't compromise |
| I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, that almost freezes up the heat of life. I'll call them back again to comfort me. Nurse! - What should she do here? My dismal scene I needs must act alone. (4.3.15-19) | juliet to self |
| (blank) | SIGNIFIGANCE; final decision to give everything up for romeo, and she doesn't even call the nurse to tell her |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; shows courage, she sacrifices relationship with nurse and parents for romeo (she's matured) |
| (blank) | PLOT; taking potion is a desperate act to save her love with romeo |
| (blank) | FORSHADOWING; sense of foreboding is well founded |
| All things that we ordained festival, turn from their office to black funeral; our instruments to melancholy bells, our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse | capulet to all assembled (more... and all things change them to the contrary) 4.5.84-90 |
| (blank) | PLOT; juliet is thought dead because of potion |
| (blank) | CHARACTER; capulet mourns his daughter; he recently wanted to disown... is this hard-won wisdom or hypocrasy |
| (blank) | IMAGE; wedding turns to funeral |
| (blank) | LAMENTATION; is eloquent or reflects the course of the tragedy |
| Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee to-night. Let's see for means. O mischeif, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men! I do remember an apothecary. (5.1.34-37) | romeo to himself |
| (blank) | PLOT; romeo has not been warned about fake death of juliet and he is going to buy poison to kill himself, he is desperate and hasty. |
| I could not send it, -here it is again, -nor get a messenger to bring it thee, so fearful were they of infection (5.2.14-16) | friar john to friar lawrence |
| (blank) | COMPLICATION; post-climatic problem, this wrecks the plan and hastens the tragedy's end |
| Death that has suck'd the honey of thy breath, hath no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death's pale flag is not yet advanced here. (5.3.92-96) | romeo to (not actually) dead juliet |
| (blank) | DRAMATIC IRONY; romeo intends a poetic expression of juliet's beauty, even in death, but we know she looks like she's alive because she's coming out of her coma. |
| What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips; haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. | juliet to (actually) dead romeo (5.3.161-166) |
| (blank) | THEME; tragic love; if she can't have romeo then she wants death. Poison would be a blessing (she eventually uses dagger) |
| Where be those enemies? Capulet! Montague! See, what a scourge is laid upon you hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of a kinsmen. All are punish'd. (5.3.291-295) | prince to capulet and montague |
| (blank) | THEME; the dramatic rivalry and hate have made beautiful love kill itself, this punishement ends the hatred (sumed up dramatically by authority figure in last scene) |
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