romeo

• 'o she doth teaches the torches to burn bright' act 1 scene 5 


  ao1: awestruck, infatuated

  ao2: light imagery / interjection / exclamative mood / heightened emotional state / disrespecting the natural element of fire / energetic alliterative plosives 'b'

  ao3: Petrarchan lover ( suffers in love and speaks in pained poetic language)
• ' fire eyed fury be my conduct now ' act 3 scene 1 


  ao1: impetuous, hasty, captures his internal conflicts, invocation summons to a demonic abstract power to take possession of him

  ao2: energetic fricatives / demonic fire imagery / exclamatory statement / personifies the emotion fury / affirmative verb 'be' brings his masculine self into existence / fighting psychomachia

  ao3: reckless hamartia

  pepper: 'i am fortunes fool'
• ' come cordial and not poison, go with me to juliet's grave ' act 5 scene 1


  ao1: submissive to fate, poison, death

  ao2: sweet healing metaphor / poison is the remedy to his fate which he submits to / sees the drug as an antidote / name suggests cordial will heal romeo's heart / poignant rhyming couplet 'thee' 'me'

  ao3: fate
• ' i defy you stars ' act 5 scene 1 


  ao1: celestial imagery, exclamative mood

  ao2: resistant verb 'defy' defying fate which separates them / attempting to gain autonomy over fate / he will go against the fated events by taking poison and dying with her

  ao3: fate
• ' shake the yoke of inauspicious stars ' act 5 scene 3 


  ao1: eternity, inevitability, fated deaths

  ao2: pessemstic celestial imagery ' inauspicious stars' believes fate has failed him / he will die and change the predestined plan / taking control

  ao3 : fate
• ' here's to my love ' act 5 scene 3 


  ao1: upon taking his life

  ao2: structural echo back to ' i drink to thee' - dedicate their lives to each other / obsessive possessive pronoun - she is a necessity to him so much so he has to claim her in death

  ao3: fate
• ' o loving hate ' act 1 scene 1

   ao1: paradox that captures the essence of conflicting emotions.

  ao2: reflects intense, contradictory feelings that can be inspired by love / revealing his inner turmoil and confusion / paradox juxtaposes two powerful forces love and hate / emotions typically seen as opposites, Shakespeare weaves them together so that they coexist / love is not a gentle or serene emotion; it is fierce and can lead to conflict, hence 'brawling' / hate carries an element of passion that is linked to 'loving'

  ao3: unrequited love or petrarchan lover
• ' this holy shrine ' act 1 scene 5 


  ao1:

  ao2: extended religious metaphor / biblical imagery / he is the worshipper and she is the idol or shrine / spiritual noun / romantic sensual language / tantamount to god

  ao3: idolising her / petrarchan lover
• ' juliet is the sun ' / 'envious moon ' act 2 scene 2 


  ao1: idealised, idolatrous, awestruck, love

  ao2: metaphor / light imagery / celestial imagery / meteorological noun

  ao3: catholic church would view their marriage as heretical and blasphemous as they are worshipping each other and replacing god
• ' o sweet juliet, thy beauty hath made me effeminate, and in my temper softened valour's steel' act 3 scene 1 
(toxic masculinity)


  ao1: romantic love and juliets beauty had distracted him and weakened him , moment of realisation

  ao2: hushed sibilance creates a soft tone mirroring his self perception as cowardly and gentle / language of chivalry metonym symbolises military aggression he is considering the feud now in more dignified terms as he readies himself to take revenge

  ao3: reckless hamartia /feels pressure to fulfil the renaissance masculine ideal