Who Said It?
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight,
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night."
Romeo
"You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins..."
Metaphors galore!
How does Romeo meet Juliet?
He sneaks into the Capulet Party and sees her there
"Many a morning hath he there been seen,
With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs. "
Romeo has been seen crying and sighing
"This precious book of love, this unbound lover,
To beautify him only lacks a cover."
Matephor
"What, dares the slave
Come hither covered with an antic face
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?"
Tybalt
"At my poor house look to behold this night
Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light."
Personification. Lord Capulet compares the women to stars that walk the Earth.
Three related characters who are neither Montagues nor Capulets.
Paris, Mercutio, and the Prince
"But saying o’er what I have said before.
My child is yet a stranger in the world."
Juliet is too young to be married.
"The Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she..."
Personification
"I, measuring his affections by my own
...gladly shunned who gladly fled from me."
Benvolio
"She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow
Do I live dead, that live to tell it now."
It's an oxymoron. Romeo claims he is alive, but dead because Rosaline refuses to love him.
What initiated the quarrel in the beginning of scene 1?
Samson
"Tut, you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself poised with herself in either eye"
Romeo only liked Rosaline because there was no other girl to compare her to.
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boist’rous..."
Personification
"Yes, madam, yet I cannot choose but laugh
To think it should leave crying and say “Ay.”"
The Nurse
"If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this..."
Metaphor. Romeo is comparing Juliet's hand to a holy shrine he is unworthy to touch/visit.
What is the Nurse's opinion on Paris?
She finds him very handsome and approves of the match.
"I’ll look to like, if looking liking move.
But no more deep will I endart mine eye
Than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
Juliet will try to like Paris if he's likeable. She will do her best to obey her mother.
"What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
Metaphor. Romeo is comparing love to all of these things. (I suppose I will also accept oxymoron)
"I’ll pay that doctrine or else die in debt."
Benvolio
"Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes
With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead
So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
Why do Romeo and Juliet have to leave each other at the party?
Juliet's mom is looking for her.
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels..."
Romeo believes something bad will begin as a consequence of attending the party.
"But he, his own affections’ counselor,
Is to himself—I will not say how true,
But to himself so secret and so close..."
A metaphor or personification.