Romeo and Juliet Test Quotes

Paraphrasing and identifying speaker, context, figurative language, and significance of each of the following quotes:

 “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.”

 “These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die like fire and powder, / Which as they kiss consume…”

“I talk of dreams / which are the children of an idle brain, / Begot of nothing but vain fantasy…”

“My lips two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.”

“Then have my lips the sin they have took.”

“Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! / Give me my sin again.”

“My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”

“My only love spring from my only hate. / Too early seen unknown and known too late.”

“Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief / That thou her maid art more fair than she.

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet. “

 ‘Swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon, ? That monthly changes in her circle orb, / Lest thy love prove likewise variable.”

“ I have no joy in this contract tonight. / It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden/ Too like the lightening, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens.”

“ A plague a both your houses! / They have made worms’ meat of me.”

“Oh , I am fortune’ fool!”

“O, I have bought the mansion of love, / But not possessed it; and though I am sold, / Not yet enjoyed.”

“Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; / Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote / The unreasonable fury of a beast. / Unseemly woman in a seeming man.”

“Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch! / I tell thee what- get thee to church a Thursday / Or never look me in the face.”

“What if this mixture do not work at all? / Shall I be married then tomorrow morning? / No, no! This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.”

“Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial death is amorous, / And that the lean abhorred monster keeps / Thee here in dark to be his paramour?”

“See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.”

“If thou thinkest I am too quickly won, / I’ll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, / So thou wilst woo..”