Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
Honors English 9
Mr. Williams
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Act II
Honors English 9
Spring Semester
1. “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 ere one can say it lightens” (2.2.117-120).
2. “…And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay/And follow thee my lord throughout the
world” (2.2.147-148).
3. “And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate, Than
death proroguéd, wanting of thy love” (2.2.76-78).
4. “These violent delights have violent ends/And in their triumph die, like fire and powder/Which as
they kiss, consume” (2.6.9-11).
5.
“I am the drudge, and toil in your delight/But you [Juliet] shall bear the burden soon at night”
(2.5.75-76).
6.
“Why, is not this [hanging out with the guys] better now than groaning for love? Now art thou
sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as nature” (2.4.90-93).
7. “I am no pilot; yet were thou as far/As that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea/I would
adventure for such merchandise” (2.2.82-84).
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
Honors English 9
Mr. Williams
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Act III
Honors English 9
Spring Semester
Directions: Identify the speaker, figure of speech, and significance of each quote.
Remember that some quotes may not have a figure of speech.
1. “Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” (3.1.98-99).
2. “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend/This but begins the woe others must
end”
3. “O, I have bought the mansion of a love/But not yet possessed it” (3.2.26-27).
4. “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” (3.2.75) Speaker? ____________
5. “Thy tears are womanish…” (3.3.110)
6. “I think she will be ruled in all respects by me” (3.4.13-14).
7. “Delay this marriage for a month, a week/Or if you do not, make the bridal bed/In that
dim monument where Tybalt lies” (3.5.201-203).
Our Lady of Mercy Catholic High School
Honors English 9
Mr. Williams
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet: Act IV
Honors English 9
Spring Semester
Directions: Identify the speaker, figure of speech, and significance of each quote.
Remember that some quotes may not have a figure of speech.
1. “My dismal scene I needs must act alone” (IV.iii.19)
2. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost/Upon the sweetest flower of all the field”
(IV.v.27-28).
3. “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir/My daughter he hath wedded”
(IV.v.38-39).
4. “All things that we ordained festival/Turn from their office to black funeral/Our
instruments to melancholy bells/Our wedding cheer to a sad bridal feast…”
(IV.v.84-87)
5. “O, play me some merry dump to comfort me” (IV.v.105-106).