Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
imagery
visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
figurative language
a type of communication that does not use a word’s strict or realistic meaning.
inversion
To create new rhythm, or to emphasize a particular word.
Archaic Language
many words that look familiar to us
Omission
Shakespeare might omit a whole word or a part of a word to create rhymes
Prose
Everyday Language
Poetry
Concentrated Language with a distinctive rhythm and style
valiant
brave
oxymoron
a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true ).
pro/prologue
Before
logue
Speaking
sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any number of formal rhyme schemes. english typically having ten syllables per line
civil
cultured and polite
star crossed
thwarted by bad luck
mis
wrong or incorrectly
unrequited love
not returned, someone does love you back
dis
away or apart
disposition
frame of mind and attitude
valiant
brave, full of courage
extended metaphor
a figure of speech, where a metaphor goes on for several lines
consent
to agree or allow something
fate
the development of events outside of a persons control
free will
the ability to make your own choices
prefix: post
behind, after, later
cunning
skill employed in a skrewd or sly manner
peril
danger
vow
to make a promise
dramatic irony
when the audience knows something that the actors on stage dont
dishonorable
lacking honor, shameful
valor
strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger bravely
woe
great sorrow or stress
slander
the utterance of false charges which damage another persons reputation
abhorred
loathed utterly
“Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, should without eyes see pathways to his will!’
Romeo has mixed feelings about love
“With cupids arrow; she hath Dians wit; and, in strong proof of chastity well armed, from loves weak and childish bow she lives unharm’d”
Love is a battle for Romeo
“For beauty, starved with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity”
Romeo is focusing on Juliets beauty
What does Capulet tell paris he must do before marrying Juliet
“You must wait 2 summers”
“Well think of marriage now, younger than you”
Juliet should already be married by now
“in one respect ill thy assistant”
Friar chooses to help Romeo
“but soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”
Romeo compares Juliet to light imagery
“Whats in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”
Juliet questions Romeo and herself
“Oh Romeo, where art thou Romeo? deny thy father and refuse thy name, or if thou will not”
Juliet questions herself about Romeo, and his actions
“My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongues offering, yet i know the sound. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?”
Juliet questions Romeo about his family.
Things are moving fast.
“What o’clock shall i send to thee? By the Hour of nine”
Juliet asks Romeo when they should meet up. to get married.
“Within the infant rind of this weak flower, Poison hath residence and medicine power”
Friar Lawrence tends to the flower
“Tybalt the reason i have love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting”
Romeo tries to calm down tybalt
“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission, Tybalt, you ratcatcher will you walk?”
“I am hurt, A plague o both houses, i am sped”
mercutio curses them
“i am fortunes fool!”
Romeo blames fortune for his problems
“it best agrees with night, come civil night, thou sober suited matron in black”
Juliet uses dark imagery to compare
“o serpent heart with a flowering face! did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?”
the nurse thinks romeo tricked them
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