Love Flashcards
What does Juliet say about her and Romeo’s love before Romeo asks her to marry him?
“this bud of love by summer’s ripening breath may prove a beauteous flower” -Act 2, scene 2 (Juliet). Natural imagery. Juliet is saying her and Romeo’s love will grow and blossom giving the audience an image of purity and young, sweet love.
What does Juliet say after finding out Romeo is a Montague?
“My only love sprung from my only hate.” -Act 1, scene 5 (Juliet). Paradox and tone: upset, regretful, longing.
What does Romeo say which “explains” how he got over the Capulet walls?
“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Romeo). Hyperbolic imagery, metaphor.
What does Juliet say when describing her relationship with Romeo which shows she is more realistic and more openly erotic?
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Juliet). Adjective “boundless” and adjective “infinite” shows the deep love she has for Romeo and like Romeo describes love as freeing.
What does the Friar say when Romeo and Juliet are getting married showing the downside to love and foreshadowing future events?
“These violent delights have violent ends… The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness.” -Act 2, scene 6 (Friar Lawrence). Foreshadowing, metaphor
What does Romeo say showing the heartbreak Rosaline has given him and how Benvolio’s kind actions have only made him more upset?
“This love that thou hast shown doth add more grief to too much of mine own.” -Act 1, scene 1 (Romeo). Tone: Melancholy, characterisation. Romeo is a hopeless romantic.
What does Romeo describe Juliet as after they met making Juliet seem radiant and beautiful?
“Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Romeo). Personification. Romeo gives the impression the moon is a jealous woman, possibly Rosaline, who is envious of Juliet’s grace and beauty.
What quote shows Romeo’s impatience and want to have Juliet all to himself after the Capulet party?
“See how she leans her cheek
upon her hand, o that I were a
glove upon that hand that I
might touch that cheek!” -Act 2, scene 2 (Romeo) Exclamation mark highlights Romeo’s impatience.
What is a famous line from Romeo and Juliet detailing how sad it is for them to leave each other?
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Juliet). Oxymoron.
What does Romeo say when explaining how Juliet’s love will make him be born anew?
“Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptised; henceforth I never will be Romeo.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Romeo). Religious imagery.
What does Romeo say to Juliet during their sonnet meaning he wants to kiss her and sees her as a saint?
“O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do. They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.” -Act 1, scene 5 (Romeo). Religious imagery.
What does Juliet tell Romeo not to swear by?
“O, swear not by the moon, th’ inconstant moon.” -Act 2, scene 2 (Juliet). Moon/ natural imagery.
What does Romeo say when explaining how he is lovesick due to his unrequited love for Rosaline?
“Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.” -Act 1, scene 4 (Romeo). Characterisation.
What does Juliet say during her soliloquy highlighting her affection for Romeo in Act 3, scene 2?
“He will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” -Act 3, scene 2 (Juliet). Imagery. Could highlight the differences between Romeo and Juliet as Romeo earlier described Juliet as the “sun”.
What are Romeo’s last words in the play?
“Thus with a kiss I die.” -Act 5, scene 3 (Romeo). Characterisation- Romeo’s fatal flaws have led him to die.
What are Juliet’s last words in the play?
“This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die.” -Act 5, scene 3 (Juliet). Characterisation- Juliet’s fatal flaws have led her to die.
What are the last words in the play?
“For never was a story of more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” -Act 5, scene 3 (Prince Escalius)
What does Juliet say she would rather do than marry Paris so she remains an “unstained wife”?
“Chain me with roaring bears”. -Act 4, scene 1 (Juliet). Dark imagery.
