C - Romeo Quotes Flashcards

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A1 - young

long

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‘Is the day so young?’ (A1 S1)
‘Ay me, sad hours seem long’ (A1 S1)
Love for Rosaline

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A1 - fume

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A1 S1 – ‘Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sights’

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A1 - Cupids

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A1 S1 - ‘She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow’
A1 S1 – ‘She hath Dian’s wit’

Cupid – was mischievous – would shoot his arrow and get people to fall in love. This means that Rosaline will not be ‘hit’ to fall in love with Romeo

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A1 - LC

brags

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A1 S5 - LORD CAPULET - ‘Verona brags of him / To be a virtuous and well governed youth’

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A1 - torches

jewel

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A1 S5 – ‘O she doth teach the torches to burn bright!’

A1 S5 – ‘Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear’

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A1 - profane

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‘If I profane with my unworthiest hand’

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A1 - shrine

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This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this’ (A1 S5)

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What is the significance of the use of the Petrarchan sonnet?

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It allows Romeo to express his courtly / Petrarchan love (love at first sight)

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A2 - sun

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‘It is the east and Juliet is the sun’(A2 S2)

Juliet is ethereal – she is impossibly perfect (sun)

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A2 - forgotten

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A2 S3 – ‘I have forgotten that name, and that name’s woe’

Forgotten Rosaline’s love so quickly

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A3 - none

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A3 S1 – ‘Villain am I none’

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A3 - tender

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A3 S1 – ‘good Capulet, which name / I tender as dearly as mine own’

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A3 - fool

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A3 S1 – ‘O, I am fortune’s fool!’

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A3 - banishment

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A3 S3 – ‘called death banishment’

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A3 - dark

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A3 S4 – ‘more light and light, more dark and dark our woes’

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A5 - defy

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A5 S1 – ‘I defy you stars!’

17
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A5 - found

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A5 S1 - ‘I dreamt my come and found me dead’

18
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A1 - hate

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A1 S1 - ‘O brawling love, O loving hate!’

19
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A5 - death

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Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: