Quotation Identification Flashcards
“Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!”
Romeo and he is challenging fate after just finding out that Juliet is dead
“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”
Romeo, he is speaking about Juliet it creates the imagery of Juliet teaching torches to burn with her beauty
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot/ Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other name/Belonging to a man./ What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet.”
Juliet is talking about Romeo changing his name and just like a rose it would still be fine by a different name
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.”
Mercutio just got stabbed and he knows he is going to die but every one thinks he is making a joke
“You men, you beasts, / That quench the fire of your pernicious rage/ With purple fountains issuing from your veins…”
The Prince is yelling at the servants to stop fighting
“Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”
Juliet says this because she cannot live without Romeo, this is foreshadowing because later she will wake up in a tomb.
“Take thou some new infection to thy eye, / And the rank poison of the the old will die.”
Benvolio is saying this to hope that Romeo will find someone else to love, this line rhymes
“Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”
Romeo says it because fate made a fool of him
“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the Earth, / Thus, I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, / And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food.”
Romeo addresses the tomb as though it were devouring people. He calls it a hateful stomach that is filled with Juliet. He uses the crowbar to open its “rotten jaws”
“Just opposite to what thou justly seemst, / A damned saint, an honorable villain!”
Juliet talking about Tybalt’s death it is an oxymoron because she says a damned saint and an honorable villain
“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified.”
Friar Lawrence is talking about the herbs he is mixing
“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circle orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”
Juliet says this because Romeo swears the he loves her but he shouldn’t swear by the moon because the moon is constantly changing.
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
Romeos overheard Mercutio and comments that Mercutio makes fun of love because he has never been wounded by it.
“Compare her face with some that I shall show. / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”
Benvolio says this to Romeo saying that whatever girl he shows Romeo will make Rosaline look like nothing (simile)
“In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, / For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”
Friar Lawrence says this because he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he believes it will end the family feud.
