Shakespeare Flashcards
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
“for this alliance may so happy prove”
to stop the feud between the 2 houses
“Love moderately”
Friar Lawrence warning them
“The reason I have love to thee doth much excuse the… villian I am none”
Romeo & Tybalt now family, Tybalt thinks it’s disrespectful bc he doesnt know
“O calm, dishonorable, vile submission”
upset Romeo isn’t fighting
“I was hurt under your arms”
M blames Romeo because M couldn’t see
“A plague o’ both your houses”
M blames the feud and curses both houses
“O sweet Juliet thy beauty hath made me effeminate”
Love has made R less courageous
O’ I am fortunes fool
he’s a fool someones messing w him / blaming everyone else but him
what does Shakespere mean when he makes Juliet say ‘gallop’
reminder of them going too fast
“night immidiently” “love-performing night”
night = safety
imagery
“O serpant heart hid with a flowering face”
saying she must not know him that well
“beautiful tyrant” “Dove-feathered raven”
oxymorons to express she misjudged him
“shall I speak ill of my husband”
Saying she must support him
“o, bid me leap , rather than marry paris”
things she would do instead of marrying Paris
“and I will do it without fear or doubt”
shows her love
whats F.R plan?
1, tell her dad
2, tell J to tell nurse not to sleep with her
3,Drink potion makes her appear dead
4,bring her to the vault
5,FL writes letter to R to inform him but the message doesn’t go through
