R+J Plot
This character thinks R + J's marriage could end the families' feud
Friar Lawrence
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet.
Juliet: contemplates how a name does not define a person so this shouldn't be in the way of J + R's love (Montague vs. Capulet)
explains the main subject of a paragraph
a topic sentence
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: agrees to marry them in hopes that their love will end the feud between Caps and Monts
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Simile
The person who brings Romeo the news of Juliet's death
Balthasar
What, drawn and talk of peace? I hate the word / As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.
Tybalt: Criticizes Capulets for having swords drawn when talking about peace- Tybalt expresses hatred for Montagues!
subject, argument, reason
thesis statement
Well think of marriage now. Younger than you / Here in Verona, ladies of esteem, / Are made already mothers. By my count / I was your mother much upon these years / That you are now a maid.
Lady Capulet: tells Juliet she should consider marriage now since others are married at her age & younger; Lady C was already pregnant at J's current age
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.
Metaphor
This has just occurred when Mercutio exclaims, "A plague o’ both your houses!"
Tybalt has stabbed him
No, ‘tis not so deep as a well, nor as wide as / a church door, but ‘tis enough. ‘Twill serve. / Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.
Mercutio: after being stabbed by Tybalt, he's describing his wound saying it's not that bad but enough to kill him
What is a body paragraph?
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, / And I, for winking at your discords too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.
Prince Escalus: showing Cs+ Ms how their hate has caused the worst pain: the loss of their children. There is no point in punishing the families bc these deaths are enough
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
oxymoron
The reason Lord Capulet believes Juliet is weeping all of the time
Tybalt's death
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide! / Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on / The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! / Here’s to my love. [Drinking.] O true apothecary, / Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo: he calls upon the poison to help him die with Juliet
What the underlined portion is called: As Steinbeck writes, “George knelt beside the pool and drank…”
lead-in/signal phrase
I’ll look to like if looking liking move. / But no more deep will I endart mine eye / Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Juliet: Agrees to see if she could like Paris, but only to the extent her parents demand from her
From forth a day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels.
classical allusion
What the families say they will gift each other once they've ended their feud
golden statues of each other's child
Where period should go when punctuating a sentence that has a parenthetical citation
after the parenthetical citation
Dry sorrow drinks our blood.
personification