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

2. – "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.

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.117- 118) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 6

7. 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.133-135) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 7

8. 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.143- 144) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 8

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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.143-144) – Paraphrase:_____________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ – Explain:________________ _______________________ _______________________ _______________________ 13

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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