| simile | O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art/ As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,/ As is a winged messenger of heaven (Lit. Element?) |
| metaphor | He jests at scars that never felt a wound (Lit. Element?) |
| Why are you a Montague? Seriously? | O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? (Paraphrase) |
| A name doesn’t define a person. A name is just a name, a label. | That which we call we a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet (Paraphrase) |
| metaphor | With love’s light wings did i o’erprech these walls/ For stony limits cannot hold love out (Lit. Element?) |
| metaphor | O, do not swear by the moon, th’ inconstant moon/ That monthly changes in her circled orb/ lest that thy prove likewise variable (Lit. Element?) |
| Since I speak to her at night, this must be just an amazing dream and surreal | Being in night, all this is but a dream/ too flattering sweet to be substantial (Paraphrase) |
| Walking away from Juliet would be the same heartache as walking towards school, ugh. | But love from love, toward school with heavy looks (Paraphrase) |
| Foreshadowing | Yet I shall kill thee with much cherishing (Lit. Element?) |
| My Juliet, sweet dreams. I cannot have any of that now being so overwhelmed by what has happened here. I’ll go to Friar Laurence for counsel and help. | Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in the breast/ Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest/ Hence will I to my ghostly friar’s close cell/ His help to crave and my dear hap to tell (Paraphrase) |
| Something good being misused can turn bad. Yet, something considered bad can be used for good. | Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied/ and vice sometime by action dignified. (Paraphrase) |
| A union of marriage between their houses could end the animosity. | For this alliance may so happy prove/ To turn household’s rancor to pure love (Paraphrase) |
| metaphor | By love, that first did prompt me to inquire./ He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes. (Lit. Element?) |
| characterization | Why, that same pale hard-hearted wrench, that Rosaline. (Lit. Element?) |
| characterization | Good Peter, to hide her face, for her fan’s the fairer face (Lit. Element) |
| oxymoron | Parting is such sweet sorrow (Lit. Element?) |
| Let’s just sllooowwww down. Why such haste? This isn’t rational at all. | Well, do not swear. Although I joy in thee,/ I have no joy of this contract tonight./ It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,/ Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be. (Paraphrase) |
| I need to here you vow your love. Tomorrow, we shall marry. | “Th’ exchange of thy love’s faithful vow for mine.” What happens when Juliet returns? |
| Thematic topic of destiny/fate | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast. (Lit Element?) |
| characterization (of Romeo) | Holy Saint Francis, what change is here! Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? (Lit. Element?) |
| The Nurse cautions Romeo to be true, honest, and genuine with Juliet. | For the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing. (Paraphrase) |
| Love consciously. View love as an intentional act and not merely a passing emotion. | Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so./ Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. (Paraphrase) |
| foreshadowing | Do thou but close our hands with holy words, /Then love-devouring death do what he dare,/, It is enough I may but call her mine. (Lit. Element?) |
| personification | Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with griefThat thou her maid art far more fair than she. (Lit. Element?) |
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 important quotations
September 5, 2019