What’s in a Name?
This family name Juliet loves despite being forbidden.
What is Romeo’s surname, Montague?
Romeo calls his kiss with Juliet this type of moral violation.
What is a sin?
Juliet discovers Romeo’s identity at this event.
What is the Capulet party?
Friar Laurence warns that this emotion leads to destruction.
What is love?
Romeo crosses this physical barrier to see Juliet.
What is the Capulet wall?
Juliet says this object “is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm…” to show names are meaningless.
What is Montague?
Romeo compares Juliet to this religious figure during their first meeting.
What is a saint?
This word pair shows Juliet’s love develops without full knowledge.
What are “unknown” and “known”?
This phrase describes Romeo and Juliet’s love as both passionate and dangerous.
What is “violent delights”?
Romeo describes love as having these that help him “fly” over obstacles.
What are wings?
Juliet compares Romeo to this flower to argue names don’t change essence.
What is a rose?
Romeo describes himself as this type of religious traveler in love.
What is a pilgrim?
Juliet’s realization that her love is both this and this simultaneously.
What are “too early” and “too late”?
Love is compared to this explosive material alongside fire.
What is gunpowder (or powder)?
This type of barrier Romeo says cannot stop love.
What is a “stony limit”?
Juliet’s command that shows she is willing to abandon her identity for Romeo.
What is “Deny thy father and refuse thy name”?
This phrase shows Romeo enjoys breaking rules when he says “Give me my ___ again.”
What is “sin”?
This phrase shows Juliet believes her love is unnatural or doomed.
What is “prodigious birth of love”?
The phrase “sweetest honey” becomes this when overindulged.
What is loathsome?
This literary device is used in “love’s light wings.”
What is personification / metaphor?
This larger idea is challenged when Juliet claims “What’s in a name?”
What is the importance of social identity / family loyalty?
This extended metaphor frames their love as both spiritual and morally forbidden.
What is the religious conceit (love as religion / sacred sin imagery)?
This literary device is used in “my only love sprung from my only hate.”
What is a paradox?
This outcome is foreshadowed by the idea that intense love “consumes.”
What is death / tragedy?
This idea is proven when Romeo risks punishment just to reach Juliet.
What is love as a force that defies social and physical boundaries?