Romeo and Juliet-Great Literary Devices

Question 1

Device: “What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

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metaphor

Question 2

When Juliet speaks all alone about her feelings before taking the sleeping potion. Device?

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soliloquy

Question 3

Tybalt, the villain of the play, calls Romeo, the lover and peace-seeker, a villain. Device?

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Irony

Question 4

The prince gives a long speech to the people of Verona about the horrible feud in their city.

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Monologue

Question 5

The first 14 lines spoken between Romeo and Juliet form what?

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Sonnet

Question 6

Which sound device makes this line so memorable? “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”

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alliteration

Question 7

After receiving a fatal wound, Mercutio states that it is merely “a scratch, a scratch.”

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Verbal Irony

Question 8

The Prologue to Romeo and Juliet includes a motif (repeating image or idea) related to ___.

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Pairs

Question 9

Which device uses pairs of words that seem to be opposites: “brawling love” and “loving hate?”

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Oxymoron

Question 10

Mercutio had “nimble soles” for dancing, but Romeo had a “soul of lead” that was too sad.

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Pun

Question 11

“Doth with their death" creates a sound effect by the repetition of the "th" sound.

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consonance

Question 12

The audience knows that Juliet is not dead, but Romeo doesn’t know. Device?

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Dramatic irony

Question 13

A repeating image or idea is known as a ____, and in Luhrman's movie Romeo + Juliet is____.

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Motif; water

Question 14

We learn in the Prologue that the two lovers “doth with their death bury their parents’ strife”

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Foreshadow

Question 15

“Parting is such sweet sorrow” is an example of which literary device?

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Oxymoron

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