Romeo and Juliet

Lord Capulet:
Thinking and Linking
 1. “Within her scope of choice
/ Lies my consent and fair 3. “Henceforward I
according voice” am ever ruled by you”

2. “I think she will be ruled 4. “Hang, beg, starve,

in all respects by me” die in the street”

1. Which characters speak these quotes?

2. Which Act and Scene do these quotes appear in?
3. What connections can be made between these quotes?
4. Can you link all of these quotes to a theme/key word?
 2. “The earth hath
1. "my child is swallowed all my hopes
dead! and with my but she;
child, my joys are She's the hopeful lady
buried." of my earth.”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify which Act and Scene these quotes are from?
 1. "In one little body,
Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind:
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, 2. “My bounty is as
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is, boundless as the sea,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs, my love as deep”
Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
Without a sudden calm, will overset,
Thy tempest-tossed body”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify which Act and Scene these quotes are from?
 1. “What noise is this? Give 3. “He shall be endured!.../ Am
me my long sword, ho!” I the master here, or you?”

2. “This, by his voice should be a Montague. 4. “My fingers itch”

Fetch me my rapier, boy.”

1. What connections can be made between these quotes?

2. Can you recall / find any other quotes that would fit with this connection?
3. Can you identify where you have seen these quotes before?
 1. “A bears him like a portly gentleman,
… Verona brags of him
To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.”
2. “As rich [a statue] shall
Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,/
Poor sacrifices for our enmity!”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify where you have seen these two quotes before?
 1. “Let two more 3. “A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.”
summers wither in
their pride,/ Ere we
may think her ripe to
be a bride.”

4. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”

2. “How will she none? Doth she not give us thanks?

Is she not proud?”

1. What connections can be made between these quotes?

2. Can you recall / find any other quotes that would fit with this connection?
3. Can you identify where you have seen these quotes before?
 1. “Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
She is the hopeful lady of my earth.”

2. “Wife, we scarce thought us blest

That God had lent us but this only child,
But now I see this one is one too much.”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify where you have seen these two quotes before?
 1. “But woo her gentle Paris, get her heart.
My will to her consent is but a part.”

2. “Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender/

Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled/
In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.”

3. “And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend;

And you be not, hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets.”

1. What connections can be made between the first two quotes?

2. Explore a key word from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. How can you connect quote number 3 with the other two quotes? Explore the contrasting language and its
effects.
 1. “And too soon marr’d
are those so early made.”

2. “Ay, you have been a mouse-hunt in your time,”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify where you have seen these two quotes before?
 Romeo:
Thinking and Linking
 1. "Under love’s heavy burden do I sink”

2. “But he that hath the steerage of my course

Direct my sail!”

1. What connections can be made between these two quotes?

2. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 1.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
3. Explore a key word/technique from quote number 2.
What are the connotations of the key word/technique? What effect does it create in this quote?
4. Can you identify which Act and Scene these quotes are from?
 1. “O she doth teach
the torches to burn
bright!”

2. “Here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes

This vault a feasting presence full of light.”

3. “Bright angel”

1. Which character speaks these quotes?

2. Which Act and Scene do these quotes appear in?
3. What connections can be made between these quotes?
4. Can you link all of these quotes to a theme/key word?