Literary Devices - Shakespeare Edition

Question 1

“Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,”

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 2

"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep."

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 3

“There is no world without Verona walls, / But purgatory, torture, hell itself”

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 4

“What, shall I groan and tell thee?”

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia

Question 5

“The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,”

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 6

"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 7

“Ay. A scratch, a scratch!”

Accepted Answer

understatement

Question 8

“The brightness of her cheek would shame the stars"

Accepted Answer

hyperbole

Question 9

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes”

Accepted Answer

alliteration

Question 10

“This precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover.”

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 11

“My lips, two blushing pilgrims.."

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 12

"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear."

Accepted Answer

simile

Questions 12