Oxymoron, Paradox & Juxtaposition Examples in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Flashcard Example #60982

Act I, Scene 1
Romeo: “brawling love, loving hate, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health”

Act I, Scene 1
Romeo referring to love: “a choking gall and a preserving sweet”

Act I , Scene 1
Romeo: “Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms”

Act I, Scene 2
Capulet: “Earth-treading stars”; “dark heaven”

Act I, Scene 4
Romeo’s view of love and dreams vs. Mercutio’s view of love and dreams

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
Juliet: “my only love sprung from my only hate”

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”

Act II, Scene 2
Juliet: “loving jealous”
Romeo: “sweet sorrow”

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

Act II, Scene 6
Friar Lawrence: “violent delights”

Act III, Scene 2
Juliet: “Was ever a book containing such vile manner so fairly bound?”

Act V, Scene 3
Friar Lawrence: “I am the greatest yet able to do least”

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.”