Quote Worksheet for Romeo & Juliet Test                       English 9                Mrs. McDee

 

Below are 16 quotes from the play. Find the quote in your text and answer the questions below each quote.

 

Heaven is here,/ Where Juliet lives.

 

Speaker:                             Spoken to:                    Literary technique used???      Here means???

 

Happiness courts thee in her best array

 

Speaker:                 Spoken to:               Literary technique used?         array means??      

 

                               

When well appareled April on the heel

Of limping Winter treads

 

Speaker:                  Speaking of???                      Literary technique used???

 

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

 

Speaker:                  ‘name’ refers to???                What is being compared?                                       

Literary technique????

 

The law, that threatened death, becomes thy friend

And turns it to exile

                              

Name the 2 things which are being compared?                       Meaning?

 

For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,

Do ebb and flow with tears;

 

Speaker:                  Spoken to:                              Literary technique?

 

I have no joy of this contract tonight./It is too rash, to unadvised, too sudden;/

Too like lightning, which doth cease to be/ Ere one can say it lightens.

 

Speaker:                                  Spoken to:               contract refers to:   What literary technique is used in this quote?

                                                                 Meaning?

 

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

 

Speaker:                                  literary technique used??        Explain the literary technique

 

Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir

 

Speaker:                                   Whose death is being referred to?          Name the literary technique used?

 

It was the lark, the herald of the morn                                                                                              

Speaker:                                  Spoken to:               Literary technique used           What 2 things are being compared?

 

For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,

Do ebb and flow with tears;

 

Speaker: Spoken about:      Literary technique used?      Meaning?

 

Take thou some new infection to thy eye,                                                                                       

And the rank poison of the old will die.                                                                                                           

 

Speaker:                   infection refers to? Spoken to:                                                Meaning?

 

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,    

Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth.                  

 

Speaker:                  What is a maw?                       What is being compared to a maw?       

‘dearest morselrefers to whom?                              Meaning?

 

Go, counselor, Thou and my bosom                 henceforth shall be twain.

                                                                               

Speaker:                  Spoken to:                               Meaning:

 

 

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

 

Speaker:                                  What 2 things are being compared?                       ‘Sweetest flower’ refers to whom:                                           What has happened?

 

“Good, gentle youth, don’t tempt a desperate man...don’t lay another sin on my head...”

Speaker:                  Spoken to:               When:                      Why is the speaker desperate?