R&J themes

• Love: ”star-____ lovers take their life“

  crossed
• Love: “O, she doth teach the ___ to burn bright”

  Torches
• Love: ”loves ___ wings“

  light
• Love: “my only love ___ from my only hate“

  sprung
• love: “Juliet is the ___”

  Sun
• love: “snowy ___”


  Dove
• Love: “bright ___”


  Angel
• Love: ”sweet ___”


  Flower
• Family: “two more ___… we think her ripe to be a bride“

  summers
• Family: “___ wretch”


  Disobedient: lord capulet dosent realise how lucky his daughter is to marry Paris.
• Conflict and honour: “civil ___ makes civil hands unclean“


  blood: blood will be staining otherwise ‘civil’ hands suggests unpredicted amounts of violence and forebodes murder and death.
• Conflict and honour: “___! I hate the word”


  Peace: he dislikes the montages so much that he has no interest maintaining peace within the families.
• Conflict and honour: “a ___ on both your houses“

  plague
• conflict and honour: “do you bite your ___ at me“

  thumb: insulting someone
• Conflict and honour: “to ___ him dead I hold it not a sin“


  strike: Tybalt thinks it would not be sinful to kill Romeo as he would be doing it in order to defend the honour of the capulet family.
• Conflict and honour: “fire-eyed fury be my ___ now” (alliteration)


  Conduct: Romeo does not care anymore that they are related- he will fight (after Mercutio’s death)
• “Are thou a man thy tears are ___” (metaphor) -the friar


  womanish: executes the social attitudes of this time period.
• Fate: “o, I am ___ fool“


  fortunes
• Fate: “star-___ lovers take there life.”

  Crossed
• Fate: “I ___ you stars“

  defy = metaphore
• Fate: ”their death-___ love”


  Marked= oxymoron
• Fate: “violent ___ have violent ends”

  Delights = oxymoron