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Act 2, Prologue Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1020, Lines 1-2: Now old desire in his deathbed lie and young affection gapes to be his
heir__________________
Pg 1020, Line 3: That fair for which love groaned for and would die__________________
Pg 1020, Line 8: And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks__________________
Act 2, Scene 1 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1021, Line 2: Turn back dull earth, and find thy center out__________________
Pg 1021, Line 13: Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word___________________
Pg 1021, Line 15: Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim____________________
Pg 1021, Line 16: When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid____________________
Pg 1021, Line 18: The ape is dead__________________
Pg 1022, Line 35: If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark__________________
Pg 1022, Line 37: And wish his mistress were that kind of fruit as maids call medlars when they laugh
alone__________________
Act 2, Scene 2 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1023, Line 3: It is the East, and Juliet is the sun__________________
Pg 1023, Line 12: She speaks, yet she says nothing__________________
Pg 1023, Lines 15-17: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes
to twinkle in their spheres till they return__________________
Pg 1023, Lines 19-20: The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a
lamp__________________
Pg 1023, Line 28: O, speak again, bright angel__________________
Pg 1023, Lines 28-30: For thou art as glorious to this night, being o’er my head, as is a winged messenger
of heaven__________________
Pg 1023, Lines 33-34: When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the
air__________________
Pg 1024, Lines 46-47: That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as
sweet__________________
Pg 1024, Lines 64-65: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of that tongue’s
utterance__________________
Pg 1024, Lines 70-71: The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, and the place death, considering who
thou art__________________
Pg 1024, Lines 83-84: I have night’s cloak to hide me from their sight__________________
Pg 1025, Lines 89-90: By love, that first did prompt me to enquire. He lent me counsel, and I lent him
eyes__________________
Pg 1025, Lines 91-92: Wert thou as far as that vast shore washed with the farthest
sea__________________
Pg 1025, Lines 101-102: At lovers’ perjuries, They say Jove laughs______________________
Pg 1026, Lines 118-119: O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her
circled orb__________________
Pg 1026, Lines 123-124: Swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my
idolatry__________________
Pg 1026, Lines 129-130: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth
cease to be__________________
Pg 1026, Lines 132-133: This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flow’r
when next we meet__________________
Pg 1026, Lines 134-135: As sweet repose and rest come to they heart as that within my
breast__________________
Pg 1027, Lines 146-147: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep__________________
Pg 1027, Lines 173-174: Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; but love from love,
towards school with heavy looks__________________
Pg 1027, Lines 175-176: O for a falc’ner’s voice to lure this tassel-gentle back
again__________________
Pg 1028, Lines 175-176: Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud__________________
Pg 1028, Lines 183-184: How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, like softest music to attending
ears__________________
Pg 1028, Lines 197-199: I would have thee gone—and yet no farther than a wanton’s bird that lets it hop
a little from her hand__________________
Pg 1028, Line 200: Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves__________________
Pg 1028, Lines 206-208: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night
till it be morrow__________________
FAMOUS QUOTE: Pg 1023, Lines 2-3: Romeo sees Juliet on the balcony and says: But soft! What light
through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! It means he sees Juliet and is
comparing her beauty to the sun.
FAMOUS QUOTE: Pg 1023, Lines 35-36: Juliet is on the balcony speaking out loud to no one about
Romeo and says: O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name!
It means why is Romeo a Montague, a man she is supposed to hate, an enemy? Why can’t Romeo have a
different name or give up his name so he is no longer her enemy?
FAMOUS QUOTE: Pg 1024, Lines 46-47: Juliet is on the balcony speaking out loud to no one about
Romeo and says: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.
It means a name doesn’t make a person; if Romeo was not a Montague, he would still be the same sweet
guy she fell in love with.
FAMOUS QUOTE: Pg 1028, Lines 206-208: Juliet is saying good bye to Romeo after they’ve agreed to
get married the following day and says: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall
say good night till it be morrow. It means that Juliet is sad that they have to say good bye to each other
and part, but she is happy they are saying good bye because that means that tomorrow will have to come
soon and that is when she will marry Romeo.
Act 2, Scene 3 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1029, Lines 1-2: The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night__________________
Pg 1029, Line 4: And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels__________________
Pg 1029, Line 5: From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels___________________
Pg 1029, Line 6: Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye__________________
Pg 1029, Lines 10-13: The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb, what is her burying grave, that is her
womb; and from her womb children of divers kind, we sucking on her natural bosom
find__________________
Pg 1029, Lines 24-25: Within the infant rind of this small flower poison hath residence, and medicine
power__________________
Pg 1029, Lines 28-31: Two such opposed kings encamp them still in man as well as herbs—grace and
rude will; and where the worser is predominant, full soon the canker death eats up that
plant__________________
Pg 1030, Lines 54-56: Where on a sudden one hath wounded me that’s by me wounded. Both our
remedies within thy help and holy physic lies__________________
Pg 1031, Line 70: Holy Saint Francis!_____________________
Pg 1031, Line 75: Jesu Maria!___________________
Pg 1031, Lines 89-91: And badest me bury love. Not in a grave to lay one in, another ought to
have__________________
Pg 1031, Lines 102-103: Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast__________________
FAMOUS QUOTE: Pg 1031, Lines 102-103: Friar Laurence has agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet and
he is giving advice to Romeo and says: Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast. It means that
Romeo should take things slow with Juliet because if you rush into things, something bad might happen.
It is foreshadowing as well!
Act 2, Scene 4 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1032, Lines 14-15: Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead, stabbed with a white wench’s black
eye__________________
Pg 1032, Lines 24-25: …the very butcher of a silk button__________________
Pg 1033, Lines 39: Without his roe, like a dried herring__________________
Pg 1033, Lines 52-57: My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.
That’s as much to say, such a case is yours constrains a man to bow in the hams. Meaning, to
curtsy.__________________________
Pg 1033, Lines 59-63: A most courteous exposition. Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy. Pink for
flower. Right. Why, then is my pump well-flowered.______________________
Pg 1033, Lines 64-69: Follow me this jest till thou has worn out they pump, that, when the single sole of
it is worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing solely singular. Oh, single-soled jest, solely singular for
the singleness._________________________
Pg 1034, Lines 74-79: Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done; for thou hast more of the
wild goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five. Was I with you there for the
goose? Thou wast never with me for anything when thou wast not there for the
goose.________________________
Pg 1034, Lines 82-84: Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce. And is it not, then, well
served in to a sweet goose?_______________________
Pg 1034, Lines 86-90: O, here’s a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! I
stretch it out for that word “broad,” which, added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad
goose._______________________
Pg 1034, Lines 93-95: Now art thou sociable, now art thou Romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as
well as by nature.__________________________
Pg 1034, Line 95: For this driveling love is like a great natural__________________
Pg 1034, Line 107: A sail, a sail!______________________
Pg 1036, Line 171: If you should lead her into a fool’s paradise as they say__________________
Pg 1037, Line 202: I warrant thee my man’s as true as steel__________________
Pg 1037, Lines 209-210: She looks as pale as any clout in the versal world__________________
Act 2, Scene 5 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1038, Line 13: She would be as swift in motion as a ball__________________
Pg 1038, Lines 16-17: Many feign as they were dead—unweildy, slow, heavy, and pale as
lead__________________
Pg 1039, Lines 46-47: I’ll warrant him as gentle as a lamb__________________
Pg 1039, Line 52: It beats as it would fall in twenty pieces__________________
Pg 1039, Line 68: Is this the poultice for my aching bones? __________________
Pg 1040, Line 79: Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark__________________
Act 2, Scene 6 Figurative Language and Quotes
Pg 1040, Line 7: Love-devouring death do what he dare__________________
Pg 1040, Line 11: And in their triumph die, like fire and powder__________________
Pg 1040, Lines 12-13: The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness__________________
Pg 1040, Line 16: Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow__________________