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Flashcards by Natalia Łukasik, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Natalia Łukasik
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| English literature | English literature REVISON |
| The quote that Romeo uses when speeking to Benvolio. He uses a lot of oxymorons | "o brawling love, o loving hate"- this is a oxymoron. this show how love is sweet yet painfull at the same time. |
| A quote from the balcony scene. | "arise fair sun and kill the envious moon" metaphor to show romeo's rejection of rosaline in favour of juliet. j brings light and hope to r's life . he is no longer hurt over rosaline. |
| After Mercutio gets killed. Romeo's quote | "o i am fortune's fool" - metaphor this emphesise that romeo feels like bad look is always following him and picks on him. |
| Juliet says this quote after she finds out that Romeo is a Montague. | " my only love sprung from my only hate." parallel syntax and juxtaposition. this underlines how her love is forbidden. this indicates in how difficult position juliet is in. she feels torn because her love is from her enemy family. AO3 - back in the 14th century girls like juliet would be married to someone that their father the patryarch had chose. without much of a say. |
| After Romeo and Juliet spend the night together and Romeo had decended down. | "as one dead in the bottom of a tomb" - simile foreshadowes how there will be a tradegy at the end.it also highlights how painfull it is for juliet to have romeo seperated from her. romeo and juliet almost like poison for each other/their love is poison - it is slow but eventually drives them to theri death.(this links to when friar lawrencesaid poison can be used for good and bad.) |
| Juliet says it after she had found Romeo dead. | "oh happy dagger - let me die!"- exlamative/ personification this underlines how death is the only possible way she can be with her love romeo. adjective 'happy' shows her relif and creates this calm atmosphere. |
| Spoken by the Prince after the the fight. act 1 scene1 | "if ever you disturb our streets again , your lifves shall pay the forfeit of the peace" - this is a warning! they will be punished if they'll fight again. the verb ' pay ' highlights how the only way to prevent any more disturbances on the streets is by sacrifacing their lives. |
| Paris tries to pursade Lord C to let him marry Juliet | "younger than her are happy mothers made" - the noun ' younger' indicates how back in the 14 the c girls have been married young. here paris is trying to peursade lord capulate. |
| Lord C vows to have no more fights between the two households. | " but montague is bound as well as i, in penalty alike , and 'tis not hard , i think, for men so old as we to keep the peace." lord capulet being obedient to the prince's instructions- vowing not to allow any more fights between his family and the montagues. |
| Lord C wants to keep Juliet a but longer before giving her away in marriage. | " let two more summers wither in their pride ere we maty think her ripe to be a bride" - capulet is protective of his daughter. verb 'wither' highlights that lord capulet wants to keep juliet longer. AO3- this is very unusual because men / the patriarch would marry off his daugter and be less protective. |
| Mercution curses both families after he has been stabbed | " a plague a'both houses!" ' plague' a noun ; a dangerouse disease that spreades quickly/ its contagious AO3- people would be aware of the dreadful ' black death' that killed millinos of people, so this curse would shock the audience. connotatins of of "plague"; pain ,suffering ,no escape, death sentance. '!' exclamative emphesis mercutio's emotion of furry and hurt. he feels betrayed. this curse foreshadows how a member of 'both' families will sufer. |
| Nurse speaks to Juliet about marrage | " women grow by men" verb ' grow' in society , once a girl marries she becomes a 'woman'. at that time the best for a woman were those who were good wives and mothers. |
| Nurse calls Juliet for her mother | "what lamb? what ladybird! " - alliteration and parallel syntax. this emphesises how motherly the nurse was to juliet. words are quite sweet and loving. AO3- in those days child of a rich famillies were looked after the ' wet-nurse' who would breastfeed and care for the children insted of the mother. |
| Friar Lawrence's advice to Romeo | " wisely and slow. they stumble that run fast." foreshadows that if you go too quickly there will be trouble. so he is advising romeovto take it slow. |
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