Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny”
Juxtaposition
Laying down the foundations of the feud
“A pair of star-cross’s lovers”
Fate
Inevitability
“Death-mark’d love”
Doomed to die
Fate
Together in death
“With purple fountains issuing from your veins”
Mixture of royals “blue blood” and red of common man
“Where underneath the grove of a sycamore”
Associated with love sickness, love with Rosaline
“Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love:”
“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate”
Oxymora throughout the speech Act 1 Scene 1
“A choking gall”
Foreshadowing how Romeo dies
“She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair”
Chiasmus
“Thou canst not teach me to forget”
Dramatic Irony, meets Juliet later that night
“And I will make thee think thy swan a crow”
Crow - Bad luck
Swan - Love
“It is an honour I dream not of”
Irony
“That in gold clasps locks in the golden story”
Increase status, power and money for capulets
“You are a lover, borrow cupids wings”
Metaphor
Cupid - Angel of love
“Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn”
Triplet
Simile
Imagery of sudden pain
“If love be rough with you, be rough with love”
Antimetabole Bawdy wordplay Comic Relief Foil (opposite) of Romeo Shows Mercutio’s views of love
“Which oft the angry Mab with blisters plagues”
Imagery of sickness, pain and suffering
“This is the hag”
Love
Sinister
Evil
“Direct my sale!”
Nautical imagery
“Begot of nothing but vain fantasy”
M says Romeo will change affections easily
“As a rich jewel in an Ethiops ear”
Imagery of preciousness and rarity
Juliet being exotic
“‘Tis he, that villain Romeo”
Ironic
Address term
“You’ll make a mutiny among my guests”
Reference to prologue
“Now seeming sweet, convert to the bitt’rest gall”
Imagery of poison
Deep rooted anger
“My grave is like to be my wedding bed”
Fate Love Conflict Death Juxtaposition
“Now old desire”
Love for Rosaline is forgotten
