An oxymoron and personification of 'lightness' (1/1)
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"More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!" -Romeo
These are juxtaposed ideas saying the more light the more the two lovers can see their woes and problems (3/5)
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"Make dark heaven light" -Lord Capulet
Juxtaposition of dark and light (1/2)
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"Too sudden//too like the lighting" -Juliet
Presents love as powerful in a theme of light that is shocking - a simile that implies the love only lasts a while (2/2)
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"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" -Romeo
Metaphor suggests that Juliet lights up Romeo's life (2/2 balcony scene)
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"Star-crossed lovers" -Chorus
Presents the fact that their fate is decided - references of the stars or ongoing in the play (prologue)
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"Turn tears to fires" -Romeo
The writers use of juxtaposed ideas suggests how Romeo is depressed as of Rosaline's unrequited love (1/2)
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Theme of Day and Night
Theme of Day and Night
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"Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon" -Romeo
Personification of the moon, metaphor of Juliet being the sun (juxtaposition)
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"Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night" - Juliet
Repetition of 'come' show Juliet's impatience of the news of Romeo. Romeo is suggested to be the night and Juliet the sun
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"Then I defy you stars" -Romeo
Presents the foreshadowing of Romeo's death
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Theme of Beauty/Religion
Theme of Beauty/Religion
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"If I profane with my unworthiest hand , This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, My lips two blushing pilgrims" -Romeo
Religious language; 'holy shrine' a place where people go to worship, 'pilgrim' a person who travels for religious reasons (1/5)
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"For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch"
Religious language. Form, Romeo's and Juliet's communication match the four rhyming lines of a sonnet quatrain - shows that their link in love
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Theme of Death/Fate
Theme of Death/Fate
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"My grave is like to be my wedding bed" -Juliet
Foreshadowing the end of the play (1/5)
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"Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets" -Capulet
The technique of listing creates dramatic effect (3/5)
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"Death, that hath s uck'd the honey of thy breath" -Romeo
Personification of death. Dramatic irony as Juliet is ALIVE (5/3)
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Theme of Love
Theme of Love
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"Ay me sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast?"
An idea of courtly love (how Rosaline is not in love with Romeo). Juxtaposed ideas of 'long' and 'fast', personification of time (important in this play) (1/1)
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"O brawling love, O loving hate" - Romeo
An idea of courtly love, juxtaposition of 'love' and 'hate'. Repetition of 'O' shows that Romeo is dramatic (1/1)
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"ripe to be a bride" -Capulet
The technique of the metaphor shows that of sexual love (1/2)
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"Did my heart love till now" -Romeo
Suggests that Romeo's love for Juliet is pure. First initial meeting of Romeo and Juliet a form of inciting incident (1/5)
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"O heavy lightness" -Romeo
Back
An oxymoron and personification of 'lightness' (1/1)
Card 3
Front
"More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!" -Romeo
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