Quotation Identification Flashcards

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“Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!”

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Romeo and he is challenging fate after just finding out that Juliet is dead

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“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!”

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Romeo, he is speaking about Juliet it creates the imagery of Juliet teaching torches to burn with her beauty

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“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.”

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Juliet is talking about Romeo changing his name and just like a rose it would still be fine by a different name

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“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.”

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Mercutio just got stabbed and he knows he is going to die but every one thinks he is making a joke

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“You men, you beasts, / That quench the fire of your pernicious rage/ With purple fountains issuing from your veins…”

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The Prince is yelling at the servants to stop fighting

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“Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”

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Juliet says this because she cannot live without Romeo, this is foreshadowing because later she will wake up in a tomb.

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“Take thou some new infection to thy eye, / And the rank poison of the the old will die.”

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Benvolio is saying this to hope that Romeo will find someone else to love, this line rhymes

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“Oh, I am fortune’s fool!”

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Romeo says it because fate made a fool of him

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“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.”

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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”

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“Just opposite to what thou justly seemst, / A damned saint, an honorable villain!”

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Juliet talking about Tybalt’s death it is an oxymoron because she says a damned saint and an honorable villain

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“Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, / And vice sometime by action dignified.”

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Friar Lawrence is talking about the herbs he is mixing

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“O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, / That monthly changes in her circle orb, / Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.”

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Juliet says this because Romeo swears the he loves her but he shouldn’t swear by the moon because the moon is constantly changing.

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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”

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Romeos overheard Mercutio and comments that Mercutio makes fun of love because he has never been wounded by it.

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“Compare her face with some that I shall show. / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

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Benvolio says this to Romeo saying that whatever girl he shows Romeo will make Rosaline look like nothing (simile)

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“In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, / For this alliance may so happy prove / To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”

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Friar Lawrence says this because he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet because he believes it will end the family feud.

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“Romeo, the love I beat thee can afford / No better term than this: thou art a villain.”

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Tybalt says this challenging Romeo

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“What if it be a poison which the friar / Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, / Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored / Because he married me before to Romeo?”

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Juliet says this talking about her doubts about the drug

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“If ye should lead her in a fool’s paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior.”

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Nurse says this to Romeo to see if his love is genuine

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“Ay, sir; but she will none, she gives you thanks. / I would the fool were married to her grave!”

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Lady Capulet is speaking to Capulet saying that Juliet will not agree