Oxymoron
Act I, Scene 1
Romeo: “brawling love, loving hate, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”
Romeo: “brawling love, loving hate, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”
Paradox
Act I, Scene 1
Romeo referring to love: “a choking gall and a preserving sweet”
Romeo referring to love: “a choking gall and a preserving sweet”
Paradox
Act I , Scene 1
Romeo: “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms”
Romeo: “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms”
Oxymoron
Act I, Scene 2
Capulet: “Earth-treading stars”; “dark heaven”
Capulet: “Earth-treading stars”; “dark heaven”
Juxtaposition
Act I, Scene 4
Romeo’s view of love and dreams vs. Mercutio’s view of love and dreams
Romeo’s view of love and dreams vs. Mercutio’s view of love and dreams
Juxtaposition
Romeo’s love, tenderness for Juliet vs. Tybalt’s hate and fury at Romeo attending the ball
Act I, Scene 5
Romeo: “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
Tybalt: “This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave …
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Act I, Scene 5
Romeo: “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”
Tybalt: “This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave …
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.”
Paradox
Act I, Scene 5
Juliet: “my only love sprung from my only hate”
Juliet: “my only love sprung from my only hate”
Dichotomy, Juxtaposition
Act I, Scene 5
Light/ dark imagery
Romeo: “She doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows”
Light/ dark imagery
Romeo: “She doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear…
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows”
Oxymoron
Act II, Scene 2
Juliet: “loving jealous”
Romeo: “sweet sorrow”
Juliet: “loving jealous”
Romeo: “sweet sorrow”
Dichotomy/Juxtaposition/Motif (Youth vs. Age)
Act II, Scene 5
Juliet: Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball…
But old folks, many feign as they were dead –
Unwieldly, slow, heavy and pale as lead
Juliet: Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball…
But old folks, many feign as they were dead –
Unwieldly, slow, heavy and pale as lead
Oxymoron
Act II, Scene 6
Friar Lawrence: “violent delights”
Friar Lawrence: “violent delights”
Paradox
Act III, Scene 2
Juliet: “Was ever a book containing such vile manner so fairly bound?”
Juliet: “Was ever a book containing such vile manner so fairly bound?”
Paradox
Act V, Scene 3
Friar Lawrence: “I am the greatest yet able to do least”
Friar Lawrence: “I am the greatest yet able to do least”
Paradox
Act V, Scene 3
Prince Escalus: “Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate
That heaven finds the means to kill your joys with love.”
Prince Escalus: “Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate
That heaven finds the means to kill your joys with love.”