Measure for Measure Quotes

Question 1

The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice i.i The Duke

Answer 1

Triad

Question 2

The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice i.i The Duke

Answer 2

Triad

Question 3

The nature of our people, Our city’s institutions, and the terms For common justice you’re as pregnant in As art and practise hath enriched any That we remember i.i The Duke

Answer 3

Metaphor Imagery pertaining to sexuality

Question 4

Lent him our terror, dress’d him with our love, And given his deputation all the organs Of our own power i.i The Duke

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Triad

Question 5

Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, ‘twere all alike As if we had them not i.i The Duke to Angelo

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Simile

Question 6

Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart i.i The Duke to Angelo

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Juxtaposition Metaphor

Question 7

Let there be some more test made of my metal, Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamp’d upon it. i.i Angelo

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Pun on his name (gold coins were known as Angels) Metaphor

Question 8

Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint? CLAUDIO From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: i.ii Lucio and Angelo

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Juxtaposition

Question 9

the morality of imprisonment i.ii Lucio

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Paradox

Question 10

Or whether that the body public be A horse whereon the governor doth ride, Who, newly in the seat, that it may know He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; i.ii Claudio about Angelo

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Metaphor

Question 11

the dribbling dart of love i.iii The Duke

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Metaphor Alliteration

Question 12

We have strict statutes and most biting laws. The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, i.iii The Duke

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Metaphors Negative connotations

Question 13

Now, as fond fathers, Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, Only to stick it in their children’s sight For terror, not to use, i.iii The Duke

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Simile Analogy

Question 14

Liberty plucks Justice by the nose i.iii The Duke

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Personification

Question 15

Your brother and his lover have embraced: As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Similes Natural imagery

Question 16

That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Juxtaposition Natural imagery

Question 17

even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry i.iv Lucio about Claudio

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Pun Natural imagery

Question 18

a man whose blood Is very snow-broth i.iv Lucio about Angelo

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Metaphor

Question 19

We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. ii.i Angelo

Answer 19

Metaphor Juxtaposition

Question 20

‘Tis very pregnant, The jewel that we find, we stoop and take’t Because we see it; but what we do not see We tread upon, and never think of it. ii.i Angelo

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Metaphor Analogy Juxtaposition

Question 21

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone. ii.i Escalus

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Rhyming couplets Paradox Sententia (brief moral sayings - includes aphorisms, maxims and rhetorical proofs)

Question 22

There is a vice that most I do abhor, And most desire should meet the blow of justice; ii.ii Isabella

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Superlatives Pun Metaphor

Question 23

For which I would not plead, but that I must; For which I must not plead, but that I am At war ‘twixt will and will not. ii.ii Isabella

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Paradox Metaphor

Question 24

No ceremony that to great ones ‘longs, Not the king’s crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal’s truncheon, nor the judge’s robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. ii.ii Isabella

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Metonymy

Question 25

Even for our kitchens We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves? ii.ii Isabella

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Analogy Rhetorical Question

Question 26

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept: ii.ii Angelo

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Metaphor

Question 27

now 'tis awake Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet, Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils, Either new, or by remissness new-conceived, And so in progress to be hatch'd and born, Are now to have no successive degrees, But, ere they live, to end. ii.ii Angelo

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Simile Natural cycles

Question 28

We cannot weigh our brother with ourself: ii.ii Isabella

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Metaphor Motif of justice

Question 29

She speaks, and 'tis Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well. ii.ii Angelo

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Metaphor Sexual imagery

Question 30

Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? ii.ii Angelo

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Juxtaposition Paradox Rhetorical question

Question 31

O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook! ii.ii Angelo

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Repetition Metaphor

Question 32

Heaven hath my empty words; Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Anchors on Isabel ii.iv Angelo

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Juxtaposition Religious imagery Metaphor (anchors on Isabel) Pun on Isabel's name (Cratyllic naming)

Question 33

Heaven in my mouth, As if I did but only chew his name; And in my heart the strong and swelling evil Of my conception. ii.iv Angelo

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Juxtaposition Metaphor Sexual imagery (of my conception)

Question 34

Let's write good angel on the devil's horn ii.iv Angelo

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Juxtaposition Pun on Angelo's name (Cratyllic naming)

Question 35

Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image In stamps that are forbid ii.iv Angelo

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Sibilance (saucy sweetness) linked to sexuality in the play (hissing 's' sound links to temptation) Metaphor Reference to Angelo's own name (Cratyllic naming)

Question 36

to redeem him, Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness As she that he hath stain'd? ii.iv Angelo

Answer 36

Sibilance (such sweet uncleanness) linked to sexuality in the play (hissing 's' sound links to temptation) Metaphor

Question 37

lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption. ii.iv Isabella

Answer 37

Juxtaposition Connotations

Question 38

we are soft as our complexions are, ii.iv Isabella

Answer 38

Simile Sibilance

Question 39

now I give my sensual race the rein: Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite; Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will; ii.iv Angelo

Answer 39

Sibilance (sensual race) linked to sexuality in the play (hissing 's' sound links to temptation) Metaphor (sensual race the rein) Imperatives (Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother)

Question 40

Bidding the law make court'sy to their will: Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, ii.iv Isabella

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Personification Juxtaposition

Question 41

There is a devilish mercy in the judge, iii.i Isabella

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Oxymoron

Question 42

If you'll implore it, that will free your life, But fetter you till death. iii.i Isabella

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Juxtaposition

Question 43

That I should do what I abhor to name iii.i Isabella

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Pun

Question 44

Sweet sister, let me live: What sin you do to save a brother's life, Nature dispenses with the deed so far That it becomes a virtue iii.i Isabella

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Sibilance (Sweet sister) linked to sexuality in the play (hissing 's' sound links to temptation) Links to Angelo's "sauce sweetness" in ii.iv Juxtaposition

Question 45

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good iii.i The Duke

Answer 45

Parallel structure Links to the theme of appearance vs reality

Question 46

A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him: iii.ii Lucio

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Alliteration

Question 47

O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! iii.ii The Duke about Angelo

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Juxtaposition Cratyllic naming Link to the theme of appearance vs reality

Question 48

'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. The Duke Act I Sc IV

Answer 48

Rhyming couplet, aphorism, paradox Music performs the same function that it does for Orsino in Act I Sc I of Twelfth Night

Question 49

Come, let us go: Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow. The Duke Act IV Sc I

Answer 49

Rhyming couplet, metaphor, link to Lucio's horticultural metaphor about Juliet's pregnancy

Question 50

Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn the scale. Provost Act IV Sc II

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Metaphor, justice motif (scales)

Question 51

As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour Claudio Act IV Sc II

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Simile, prison imagery (lock'd up in sleep), paradox (comparing Barnadine's sleep to that of an innocent man)

Question 52

When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended, The Duke Act IV Sc II

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Paradox, link to two of the key concepts in the play

Question 53

he hath evermore had the liberty of the prison Provost on Barnadine Act IV Sc II

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Paradox

Question 54

I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession Pompey Act IV Sc III

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Comparative, irony

Question 55

I am directed by you. Isabella to the Duke Act IV Sc III

Answer 55

Simple sentence that shows Isabella handing her remaining power over to the Duke

Question 56

the old fantastical duke of dark corners Lucio on the Duke Act IV Sc III

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Epithet, alliteration

Question 57

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. Lucio Act IV Sc III

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Metaphor, symbolic of sexuality in the play and the way in which it is impossible to eradicate

Question 58

His actions show much like to madness Angelo Act IV Sc IV

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Simile, dramatic irony

Question 59

To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, When it deserves, with characters of brass, A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. The Duke to Angelo Act V

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Metaphor, prison imagery

Question 60

given me justice, justice, justice, justice! Isabella Act V

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Repetition, key motif

Question 61

O worthy duke, You bid me seek redemption of the devil Isabella Act V

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Juxtaposition

Question 62

That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange? That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange? That Angelo is an adulterous thief, An hypocrite, a virgin-violator; Is it not strange and strange? Isabella Act V

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Parallel structure, rhetorical questions

Question 63

the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute As Angelo Isabella Act V

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Comparative, appearance vs reality

Question 64

make the truth appear where it seems hid, And hide the false seems true Isabella to the Duke Act V

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Paradox

Question 65

He would not, but by gift of my chaste body To his concupiscible intemperate lust, Isabella Act V

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Metaphor (gift)

Question 66

if he had so offended, He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself The Duke to Isabella Act V

Answer 66

Metaphor, justice motif

Question 67

DUKE VINCENTIO ## Footnote What, are you married? MARIANA No, my lord. DUKE VINCENTIO Are you a maid? MARIANA No, my lord. DUKE VINCENTIO A widow, then? MARIANA Neither, my lord. Act V

Answer 67

Paradox

Question 68

As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue, I am affianced this man's wife as strongly As words could make up vows Mariana Act V

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Similes, parallel structure

Question 69

Let me in safety raise me from my knees Or else for ever be confixed here, A marble monument!

Answer 69

Metaphor, link to Angelo who is described by the Duke as "a marble to her tears"

Question 70

instruments of some more mightier member Angelo Act V

Answer 70

Metaphor

Question 71

'Cucullus non facit monachum:' Lucio Act V

Answer 71

Epithet (the hood does not make the monk) - appearances vs reality

Question 72

women are light at midnight Lucio Act V

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Paradox, pun

Question 73

Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox? The Duke Act V

Answer 73

Metaphor, juxtaposition, imagery pertaining to power hierarchies

Question 74

the duke Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he Dare rack his own The Duke Act V

Answer 74

Comparative, dramatic irony, parallel structure

Question 75

I have seen corruption boil and bubble Till it o'er-run the stew The Duke Act V

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Metaphor

Question 76

the strong statutes Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, As much in mock as mark. The Duke Act V

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Similes, sibilance, alliteration

Question 77

I love the duke as I love myself. The Duke Act V Sc I

Answer 77

Parallel structure

Question 78

When I perceive your grace, like power divine, Hath look'd upon my passes. Angelo Act V Sc I

Answer 78

Simile

Question 79

The very mercy of the law cries out Most audible The Duke Act V Sc I

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Metaphor

Question 80

I am sorry, one so learned and so wise As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd, Should slip so grossly Escalus Act V Sc I

Answer 80

Parallel structure, intensifiers