ela Romeo and julliet

O mischief, thou art swift

To enter in the thoughts of desperate men.

-appostraphy

-Romeo says this when talking to balthasar after he figured out juliet has died, and he now wants to commit suicide to be with her.

-this line means how bad of thoughts come to mind when a person is in a difficult situation

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,

Doing more in murder in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.

metaphor-moneys not acculy poisin

-romeo says this after he has bought the poison to khs

-this line means that wealth and money is far more deadly to a man doing more murders  than poisen that doesn’t sell.

Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!

-oxymoron

-Friar lawrence says this reflecting on julliets situation after she has taken the potion

-this line means a living person is in a dead body

Sweet flower, with sweet flowers thy bridal bed I strew

Which with sweet water nightly I will dew.

-paris says this while standing next to juliets tomb,mourning her death,he is preparing juliets grave as if it where a wedding  bed

-this line is explaining paris lying flowers around her death bed,and he plans to keep the flowers fresh by watering with his tears

Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,

Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,

Thus I enforce these rotten jaws to open,

And in despite I'll cram thee with more food.

-gorged=throte,mouth,stomach

-appostraphy

-romeo says this when he sees julliet in her tomb 

-romeo comparing julliets casket to a stomach, and this line means,romeo is calling the tomb a mouth suggesting that its the place for birth and death,saying juliet is the dearest mistle that is gorged in it,he says that he will open the mouth and climb in it,meaning he will join juliet in death,

Capulet, Montague,

See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,

That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

-scourge=punishment

-The prince says this to address the situation after reading romeos letter 

-this line is means, do you see what suffering your hate has caused,and even positive things like love can cause destruction

Tempt not a desperate man.

-Romeo says this to paris when paris and him see eachother at julliets grave 

-this line means dont provoke me further i am already at my lowest point i will kill you

Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;

My Daughter he hath wedded. I will die

And leave him all. Life, living all is Death's.

-personification

-capulet says this after he has found out juliet is dead

-these lines means, juliet is now married to death,instead of paris personifing death as his son in law,he is now saying that all his life posetions now belong to death

How if, when I am laid inside the tomb,

I wake before the time that Romeo

Come to redeem me?...

Shall I not then be stifled in the vault?...

And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?

-soliloqy

-julliet says this before she takes friar lawrences potion,she is naming her stresses

-these lines mean,what if i wake before romeo comes,what if i suffocate before romeo finds me

Eyes look your last

Arms, take your last embrace. And lips, O, you

The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss

A dateless bargain with engrossing death.

-soliloquy, apostrophe

-romeo says this at Juliet tomb after he has killed Paris, and he is not ready to kill himself

-these lines are romeo addressing himself doing the last things because he knows he is about to die

I defy you stars

-romeo says this after bathasar told romeo juliet was dead

-this line means that romeo is refusing to accept the fate that juliet is dead,hes going to take fait into his own hands

. By Holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here

To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.

Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.

-prostate=warship

-beseech-ask for something in am urgent way

-dramatic irony bc we know it's just part of plan

-juliet says this to her father after talking to friar lawrence and hearing his plan

-this line means Juliet is referencing the advice from father Lawrence,and she is seeking forgiveness,exclaiming that she will now obey her family's decisions.

If thy wisdom thou canst give no help,

Do thou but call my resolution wise,

and with this knife I'll help it presently.

-foreshadowing

-juliet is saying this to friar lawrence seeking his advice to avoiding marrying paris

-this line means,if the friar can not help her,she will decide to kill herself with that knife

 Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

-Simile

-capulet says this when he sees juliet's “dead body”

-this line is using a simile to compare juliet to a flower ,saying that death came upon her to soon

. My heart is wondrous light

Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.

-dramatic irony bc juliets deceiving her father

-capulet says this after juliet has apologized for her actions,and agreed to obey his plan to marry her to paris

-this line means that i am so happy that a previous rebellion person has now been returned to obedience and is accepted back

The heavens do lour upon you for some ill

Move them no more by crossing their high will.

-lour=to be dark and heavy

-rhyming couplet

-friar lawrence says these words to capulets and montagues rushing them along to burry juliet

-this means the divine is punishing you and do not resist it

 All things we ordained festival

Turn from their office to black funeral

-rhyming couplet

-capulet says this after learning juliets dead right before the wedding.

            -office=there function of the wedding

-he is saying all preparations for a wedding which was supposed to be celebratory, have now turned to a funeral

Tragedy

a hero is brought down by their flaws-romeo's impulsive quick decisions,like when he went and bought poison and drank it right after finding about juliet's death

tragic hero

when a hero experiences a downfall they become a tragic hero-romeos reckless passion in love leads to his death-bc he was so in love with juliet,when he thought she was dead,he killed himself

tragic flaw

leads to character's downfall-romeo's excessive love for juliet 

catharsis

a cleansing brought by great sadness,fear,and pity-when we experience sadness and pity for romeo and juliet after they die

oxymoron

a cindraductoin that is nevertheless true(living corse)

 apostrophe

addressing something dead/nonliving as if it can respond(O mischief, thou art swift)

 rhyming couplet

two lines at the end of rhyme joins together a idea ababcdcdefefGG(The heavens do lour upon you for some ill

Move them no more by crossing their high will.)

monologue/soliloquy=character alone speaking their thoughts out loud Juliet's

character alone speaking their thoughts out loud Juliet's

 dramatic irony

reader knows more than characters(By Holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here To beg your pardon. Pardon, I beseech you.Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.)

foreshadowing

The heavens do lour upon you for some ill

Move them no more by crossing their high will.

motif

day and night