Romeo and Juliet Review #1

Balthasar

Examples of lit terms: wolf-killing lamb

womb of death

The earth is a womb and a tomb.

Paris: Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death.

Heaven smiles; morning smiles; frowning night

Mercutio

Death lies on her like an untimely frost.

I dreamt my lady came and found me dead.

Death is my son-in-law; death is my heir.

I'll not be satisfied with Romeo until I see him-dead-is my poor heart so for a kinsmen vexed

Peter: I'll give you a beat. Do you note what I'm saying?

Tybalt

End of Act IV w/ Peter & the musicians is an example of what device used to lighten the mood

Mercutio, consortest thou with Romeo? Consort? What dost thou make us minstrels?

Juliet is the sun.

What is the literary term that involves Romeo's premonition about dying an early death?

Juliet

Rosaline

a two-word phrase used to show conflicting emotions

Paris

When I do marry, I swear it shall be to Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than to Paris.

Benvolio

a comparison using "like" or "as"

living corpse

when the audience knows more than the characters know

hungry churchyard

a seeming contradiction

Act IV, scene v, when Juliet's family discovers her dead is an example of ???

when a speaker says one thing but means another (similar to sarcasm)

Thou detestable maw...gorged w/ the dearest morsel of the earth, thus I enforce thy rotten jaws

Character Loyalties: Capulet, Montague, or Neutral? Romeo

O speak again, bright angel!

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp.

Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man.

Come, restoring drug and not poison, go with me to Juliet's grave; for there I must use thee.

a play on words with similar sounds but different meanings

Lit definitions: the contrast between what a character/reader expects & what actually happens

Nurse

A sail! A sail!

Friar John was quarantined, which meant he did not get the letter to Romeo.

Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb...look'st pale

when circumstances happen to us that are beyond our control; destiny

a hint given to the reader of what is to come

cold fire; sick health

Friar Lawrence

Capulet moves the wedding up a day.

a direct or sometimes indirect comparison of unlike things, not using "like" or "as"

giving human qualities to non-human things

A scratch, a scratch