Romeo and Juliet-Juliet's death Flashcards
(8 cards)
Exclamative nurse uses first line
“O lamentable day!”
Lady Capulets imitation of nurse as she is unable to relate due to the lack of maternal bond
“She’s dead, deceased, she’s dead; alack the day!”-nurse
“Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead!”-Lady Capulet-unaware how to grieve-breaks iambic pentameter
Imagery of death and Juliet as a flower
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost. Upon the sweetest flower of all the field”-Lord Capulet -superlative + personification
Lord Capulet’s imagery of death and how he grieves the loss of the marriage more than Juliet
“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir”
Paris’ asyndetic list of emotive verbs
“Beguiled, divorced, wronged, spited, slain!”
Lord Capulet’s asyndetic list of emotive verbs
“Despised, distressed, hated, martyr’d, kill’d”
Lord Capulet’s anadiplosis
“murder murder”
Juliet’s significance to Lord Capulet
“And with my child my joys are buried”-no hope - alludes to transactional marriage failed