Romeo and Juliet Act II Quotes Analysis Hamilton High School Honors English 9/ Mrs. Chen 1

– "If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark." (II.i.33) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 2 1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important.

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars/As day light doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven/Would through the airy region steam so bright/That birds would sing and think it were not night." (II.ii.19-22) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 3

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "Deny thy father and refuse thy name!/Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/And I'll no longer be a Capulet." (II.ii.33-35) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 4

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls;/For stony limits cannot hold love out,/And what love can do, that dares love attempt." (II.ii.66-68) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 5

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "I have no joy of this contract tonight./It is too rash, too unadvisedly, too sudden;" (II.ii ) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 6

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep; the more I give to thee,/The more I have, for both are infinite." (II.ii ) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 7

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "If that thy bent of love honorable,/Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow," (II.ii ) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 8

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb,/What is her burying grave, that is her womb;" (II.iii.10-11) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 9

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "In man as well as herbs---grace and rude will;" (II.iii.28) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 10

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies/Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes;" (II.iii.67-68) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 11

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your households' rancor to pure love." (II.iii.91-92) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 12

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "…, if ye should lead her into a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior," (II.iv ) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 13

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "Love's heralds should be thoughts,/Which ten times faster glide than the sun's beams/Driving back shadows over lowering hills." (II.v.4-6) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 14

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/Which, as they kiss, consume." (II.vi.9-11) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 15

1)Identify who says the following quote. 2)Paraphrase the quote. 3)Explain why this quote is important. – "Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;/Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow." (II.vi.14-15) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 16