Romeo and Juliet

• Prologue: a pair of star crossed lovers take their life
• what does star crossed tell us

  • Their loves ill fated
  • Creates dramtic irony
  • Fate and free will are intertwined
• Peace? I hate the word as I hate hell all montagnes and thee
• What are the teqniques used in peace…

  • Personifies aggression
  • tricolon extreme disdain
  • agression is inevitable
• O brawling love O loving hate
• what techniques are used in the quote O brawling love O loving hate

  .Oxymorons used to show Romeos confused emotional state

  . Petrarchan love and unrequited love.
• Let two more summers, wither i in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride
• what are the techniques used in the quote?two more summers…

  • Personification suggesting Juliet is too young
  • Metaphor implies she is an object, and the female body is to be consumed by men
• But no more deep will I endart mine eye then your consent give strength to make it fly
• What are the techniques for the quote?but no more deep…

  • Metaphor Juliet will not shoot encouraging looks at Paris
  • conventionality of Juliet
• nay bigger woman grown by men
• What techniques are in the quote? nay bigger women

  • Comparative bigger suggesting pregnancy
• It is too rough, too rude to boisterous and it pricks like thorn
• What techniques are used in? The quote is too rough too rude.

  personification used to portray love as a bully

  simile to highlight the painful side of love, just like a thorn
• Now by the stock and honor of my kin to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin
• what techniques is used in the quote? now by the stock and honor …

  • Religious imagery to justify its right to murder a rival family member
• pilgrim, sin saint
• What techniques are used in the quote Pilgrim sin Saint?

  written in a sonnet isolating the lovers gaze to just themselves

  Religious imagery and metaphor to show how the intend to be respectful, but much each other’s language suggesting a mutual interest and attraction
• It is the east and Juliet is the sun
• What techniques are used in the quote? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.

  Metaphor suggesting Romeo’s life depends on Juliet

  The hope Juliette brings for Romeo
• For this alliance may so happy proof to turn your household rancor to pure love
• What techniques are used in the quote for this alliance…

  Antithesis shows how the friar optimistically believes in the love
• it is to rush to unadvised to sudden to like the lightning
• What techniques are used in the quote? It is too rash…

  anaphora reveals Juliet’s misgivings at how quickly she has declared her love

  Simile shows the love could be an short lasting (ephemeral)
• A plague, a both your houses
• Techniques are used in the quote a plague…


  Dramatic irony of the deaths

  biblical imagery shows God is vengeful and cruel
• O I am fortunes fool
• What techniques are used in the quote? Oh, I am fortunes fool

  Metaphor showing Romeo has been controlled by fate

  O shows anguish
• Oh serpent, heart head with a flowering face
• What techniques are used in a quote O serpent heart?

  Illusion to serpent represents temptation of Eve

  juxtapostion two sides to Romeo
• Oh, I will drag thee on a hurdle thither… hang thee young baggage, disobed wretch… my fingers itch
• What techniques are used in the quote or I will drag thee…

  • Hurdle used to carry out execution, suggesting Juliet a criminal
  • Imperative reveal fury and confusion at Juliet disobedience
  • Metaphor baggage Juliet’s a burden
• bid me leap rather than marryParis from the battlements of any tower
• Techniques are used in the quote bid me leap

  • moral sin of suicide
  • willing to sacrifice herself for Romeo , showing devotion
• then I defy you stars
• What techniques are used in the quote then I defy you stars

  • declarative of Romeo’s confidence to be with Juliet
  • Motif stars to represent the fate
  • dramatic irony as Romeo is trying to fight fate, but we know he will die
• O happy dagger
• What techniques are used in the quote happy dagger

  • Oxymoron showing Juliet happiness about death
  • cyclical structure
  • Suicide mortal sin
• That’s heaven find means to kill your joys with love and I for winking actual discord to have lost a brace of Kinsman all are punished
• What technique is used in the quote that heaven finds means

  • Metaphor of heaven highlights the fate of story
  • Love and conflict intertwined
  • Metaphor considers himself as a poor leader
  • metaphor all are punished she’s pay d suffering