Shakespeare Flashcards
(40 cards)
How many Quatrains
3
How many Couplets
1
Shakespears past, open choice question
talk abt..
groundlings, what the queen thought about the shows, how woman couldnt participate in them.
switch how u say the sentance
Inversion
many words that look familiar to us, for example “heavy”, had very different meanings
Archaic language
omitted a word, sentence letters to create rhymes.
Omission
Love so strong its paralyzing intensity of love
language desribes love as perfect
Anti-sex, about purity
Love is unrequited love :love not returned
Petrarchan Love
an indirect reference to something from Greek mythology
ex. “she will not be hit by cupid’s arrow”
Classical Allusion
reference to something in the bible
biblical allusion
14 lined poem
usually written in iambic pentameter
complex rhyme scheme
Sonnet
play on words with the sound of the words
Pun
Light imagery
seems like an absurd contradiction and seems not true but it is true
Paradox
goal: has to wait 2 year and woo her to be able to get with her
Paris
obeys her mothers decisions and respects her mom
Juliet
“Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much…”
Juliet being flirtatous responding back to Romeo
“My life if my foe’s debt”
found out she’s a Capulet but isn’t planning to give her up
“My ears have yet no drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering”
barely know eachother
“my life better ended by their hate then death prorouged, wanting of thy love”
showing desire
“i have no joy in this contract tonight, too rash too sudden”
she doesn’t want to be seen as easy or not hard to get, it’s no fun that way
“I am afeared, being in night all this is but a dream”
Romeo feels as if it’s a dream
“thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow”
didn’t want to move fast now she’s talking about marriage
“poison hath residence and medicine powder”
foreshadowing
“young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes”
judging romeo saying he doesn’t know real love if he could move on that fast