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Key Quotes Flashcards

1
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In the prologue what are Romeo and Juliet described as ?

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Star-crossed lovers

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In the prologue is is announced there is an ‘ancient grudge’. What is the terminology?

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Biblical adjectival phrase

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What does the quote ‘take their lives’ symbolise ?

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The collective pronoun shows they are unified

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4
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What is Sampsons only line ?

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‘Draw if you be men’

- aggressive imperative

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What is the harshly sibilant phrase that is said by Tybalt ?

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Peace! I hate the word

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What is the terminology of Romeos line ‘ O brawling love! O loving hate’

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Oxymoronic phrase

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What is the sporting imagery/reductive metaphor used by Benvolio?

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A right fair mark

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How does Lord Capulet originally refer to Juliet ?

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Hopeful lady of my earth

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What does lady capulet tell Juliet about marriage ?

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‘Younger than you are made already mothers’

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What simplistic unadorned question does Romeo ask when he first sees Juliet ?

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Did my heart love till now ?

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How does Romeo describe Juliet ?

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‘Snowy dove’

‘Holy shrine’

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What is Mercutio implying when he says ‘O that she were an open arse and thou a poperin pear’

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His bawdy humour illuminates how it could all be lust and not love

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What does Juliet tell Romeo not to swear by ?

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‘O swear not by the moon’

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When Mercutio dies, what apocalyptic phrase does he use ?

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‘A plague O both your houses’

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What emotive metaphor does Romeo use to describe what Juliet has done to him ?

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‘Thy beauty hath made me effeminate’

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16
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What dramatic irony is used when Romeo kills Tybalt ?

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‘O I am fortunes fool’

17
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Why was Juliet’s unconventional epithalamium cut from some performances ?

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Because it was unheard of for a 13 year old to think about sex

18
Q

What is the comparative superlative used by Juliet when she finds out Tybalt has died ?

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’ my dearest cousin and my dearer lord’

19
Q

What does lord capulet say to Juliet when she refuses to marry Paris ?

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‘Hang thee hound baggage, my fingers itch’

20
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What does the phallic imagery of ‘O happy dagger this is thy sheath’ suggest ?

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That Juliet was killed by the patriarchy

21
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How does Lord Capulet describe Romeo and Juliet’s death ?

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‘Poor sacrifices of our enmity’

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