Romeo and Juliet vocabulary
Impetuous
Impulsive
Rash
Loving
Romantic
Affectionate
Angry
Patriarchal
Controlling
Vulnerable
Speech
Soliloquy
Bird imagery- freedom and captivity
Water imagery- overwhelm and power
Boat imagery- human helplessness against fate
Flower imagery- beauty and fragility
Heavenly imagery- association with divine power
Astrological imagery-fate/fortune
Light and dark imagery- positivity/negativity
Greek/Roman mythology- fictional heroes/Gods
Religious imagery-Association with God/belief/ sincerity
Catholic imagery- worship of idols
Nature imagery- implies that love is natural or that God wills events
Defiance
Destiny
Predetermined
Free will
Tragedy
Elizabethan revenge tragedy- genre of play resulting in multiple deaths/corpses on stage at
end of the play
Hamartia- fatal flaw (impulsivity) leads to tragedy
Pity
Pathos
From a modern audience’s viewpoint
Universal, timeless ideas
Unrequited Love
Conventions of Courtly Love Poetry
Oxymorons
Foreshadowing
Sonnet
Iambic pentameter ( 10 syllables per line)- rhythm of high status characters
Prose- unrhyming- low status characters speaking to one another
Rhyming couplet emphasizes highly charged emotions of the speaker
Wet Nurse
Father figure
Act 3- pivotal Act
Act 3 scene 5- Pivotal scene