Year 11 Good luck with your GCSE Exams

Year 11 Good luck with your GCSE Exams this week!

‘prettiest babe I ever saw. ’ Nurse is more like a mother to Juliet:

‘You are to blame my Lord. ’ Nurse stands up to Lord Capulet for Juliet:

Lord Capulet on Montague: ‘Tis not hard I think for men as old as we to keep the peace.

Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage: ‘My child is yet a stranger in the world. ’

Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage Personification: ‘Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she. ’

Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage ‘Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part. ’

‘My fingers itch. ’ Lord Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris:

Lord Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris: ‘And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets!’

‘I do but keep the peace. ’ Benvolio on the fight at the start of the play

Benvolio on Romeo’s love for Rosaline: ‘Blind is his [Romeo’s] love and best befits the dark.

Benvolio foreshadowing Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo’s fight ‘I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. The day is hot, the Capels abroad, And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring. ’

Light imagery used by Romeo to describe Juliet: Metaphor: ‘But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!’

Juliet on finding out Romeo is a Montague: ‘My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!’

Juliet before her death: ‘O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. ’

Romeo on his love for Rosaline ‘Why, then, o brawling love, o loving hate. ’ (1. 1) - oxymoron

Romeo on his love for Juliet ‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls. ’ (2. 2) alliteration

Romeo on Tybalt: ‘Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!’ (3. 1) – alliteration, personification

Romeo to Tybalt after Mercutio’s death: ‘Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him. ’ (3. 1) – no positive outcomes

Romeo to Friar Lawrence on being separated from Juliet due to banishment: ‘Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death’, For exile hath more terror in his look. ’ (3. 3) – rhetorical question, personification

Tybalt in the fight at the start of the play ‘‘What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee’ (1. 1 p. 37)

Tybalt on Romeo attending the Capulet’s ball: ‘I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall. ’

Tybalt to Romeo ‘Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me’

Mercutio on Romeo not fighting back with Tybalt: ‘O calm, dishonourable, vile submission’

Mercutio’s use of humour to describe his fatal wound - his appeal as a comic character: ‘No 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. ’

Mercutio mocking conventions of love: metaphor of love as a rose with thorns ‘If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking and you beat love down. ’