It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3).
metaphor - it compares Juliet to the sun
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" (2.2.4).
personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is envious (jealous).
Who is already sick and pale with griefthat thou, her maid, art far more fair than she" (2.2.5-6).
personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is sick and pale with grief.
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,as daylight doth a lamp..." (2.2.19-20).
hyperbole - exaggeration. Juliet's cheek is so bright it puts the brightness of stars to shame.
...her eyes in heavenWould through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night" (2.2.20-22).
hyperbole - exaggeration. If Juliet's eyes were like stars in heaven looking down on us, it would be so bright that birds would be singing because they thought it was daytime.
O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as a winged messenger of heaven..." (2.2.28-30).
metaphor - Romeo compares Juliet to a "bright angel" simile - she is AS glorious to the night AS a "winged messenger of heaven
With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out" (2.2.70-71).
hyperbole - love gave him wings to climb over the walls and reach Juliet
...there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!" (2.2.75-76).
hyperbole - Romeo claims there is more danger in Juliet's eyes than in twenty of her relatives coming at him with their swords
I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes" (2.2.79).
personification - night does not have a cloak
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore was'd with the farthest sea, I should adventure for such merchandise" (2.2.86-88).
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Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face..." (2.2.89).
metaphor - compares the darkness of night to a mask
Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-nite; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens" (2.2.122-126).
simile - Juliet compares their "contract", or promises of love, to lightning. It is sudden and quick - lightning disappears from the sky before you can say there was lightning.
This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet..." (2.2.127-128).
personification - summer does not have "ripening breath"metaphor - compares their love to a flower bud
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books..." (2.2.165).
simile - compares how lovers go to lovers with the same joy as schoolboys leave their schoolwork behind
... But love from love, toward school with heavy looks" (2.2.166).
metaphor - compares how lovers leave one another with the same unhappiness schoolboys experience when going to school
How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears" (2.2.175-176).
simile - compares the sound of lovers talking at night to soft music
...'tis twenty years til then" (2.2.182).
hyperbole - exaggeration. The short time they are apart will feel like 20 years
...I would have thee gone; -- and yet no farther than a wanton's bird, that lets it hop a little from her hand..." (2.2.189-191).
metaphor - Juliet expresses how closely she wishes Romeo could stay to her by comparing him to a bird kept on a chain that can only "hop a little from her hand"hyperbole - exaggeration of just how close she wants to keep Romeo
...like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves (chains), and with a silk thread plucks it back again, so loving-jealous of his liberty" (2.2.192-194).
simile - compares the bird (Romeo) to a "poor prisoner
Chorus
But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, Temp'ring extremities with extreme sweet
Romeo
He jests at scars that never felt a wound
Juliet
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet
Juliet
O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable
Romeo
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks
Friar Lawrence
O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies in plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities
Friar Lawrence
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, and vice sometime by action dignified
Friar Lawrence
Within the infant rind of this weak flower, poison hath residence and medicine power
Friar Lawrence
In man as well as herbs- grace and rude will
Romeo
Then plainly know my heart's dear love is set on the fair daughter of rich Capulet
Romeo
I'll tell thee as we pass, but this I pray, that thou consent to marry us today
Friar Lawrence
Young men's hearts then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes
Friar Lawrence
In one respect I'll thy assistant be, For this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households' rancor to pure love
Friar Lawrence
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Mercutio
More than the Prince of Cats. O, he's the courageous captain of compliments. He fights as you sing prick-song, keeps time, distance, and proportion. He rests his minim rests, one, two, and the third in your bosom - the very butcher of a silk button, a duelist, a duelist, a gentlemen of the very first house of the first and second cause. Ah, the immortal passado, the punto reverso, the hay!
Romeo
Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, And there she shall at Friar Lawrence' cell be shrived and married
Friar Lawrence
So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after-hours with sorrow chide us not
Friar Lawrence
These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. To swift arrives as tardy too slow
Juliet
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Juliet
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy
Juliet
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel?
Romeo
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself because it is an enemy to thee
Juliet
Thou knowest the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeck, for that which thou hast heard me speak tonight
Juliet
Or, if thou thinkest I am too quickly won, I'll frown and be perverse and say thee nay, so thou wilt woo, but else not for the world
Romeo
Being in night, all this is but a dream
Juliet
If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, by one that I'll procure to come to thee
Romeo
By the hour of nine
Juliet
Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say "Good night" till it be morrow.
Romeo
Sleep dwells upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast, would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest, hence will I go to my ghostly friar's close cell, his help to crave, and my dear hap to tell.
What is the purpose of Romeo going to Juliet's balcony?
He wants to see if Juliet is as in love with Romeo as he is with her.
What does Romeo find out when he is under Juliet's balcony?
Juliet is in love with Romeo and thinking about him.
Juliet professes her love for Romeo by saying this
Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
What does Romeo do when he hears Juliet call out his name?
He professes his love for her.
When Juliet is unsure of Romeo's feelings he does this
Demands that Romeo propose marriage to Juliet.
Who keeps interrupting Juliet when she is talking with Romeo from the balcony?
her nurse
Why is the Friar so eager to marry Juliet and Romeo
in hopes that the feud between the two families will end.
Shakespeare compares Juliet to what?
The sun
in this quote, Juliet expresses her how selfless she is...
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep. The more I give thee / The more I have, for both are infinite
In this quote, Shakespeare is referring to Juliet as the sun and who as the moon? "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon
Rosaline
Romeo and Juliet's meeting in the garden symbolize what?
Purity and Virginity (the garden of eden)
Shakespeare created the scene at Juliet's balcony to explain to the audience that love...
involves two people opening their hearts to each other.
Shakespeare believes that when two people fall in love that they can then
grow and become stronger.
Juliet demonstrates her growing independence after falling in love with Romeo by
beginning to defy her nurse and her parents.
In this quote "What's in a name? that which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet" What is Juliet talking about?
That people can be more than their societal roles or family roles.