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Language in Romeo and Juliet
Language in Romeo and Juliet
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a review of some key figurative language and literary devices and elements from the play
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Word that suggests two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound
irony
pun
oxymoron
foreshadowing
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"But old folks, many feign as they were dead,Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead."
pun
simile
symbol: astral
light and dark imagery
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A figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared, using like, as, or than
foreshadowing
irony
personification
simile
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"My mind misgives Some consequence yet hanging in the stars Shall begin this fearful date."
simile
contrasting elements
foreshadowing
pun
5
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
symbol:astral
pun
simile
metaphor
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"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
symbol: birds
metaphor
contrasting elements
pun
7
"...and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come and crush a cup of wine."
imagery
simile
dramatic irony
pun
8
"I talk of dreams, Which is as thin of substance as the air And more inconstant than the wind."
simile
pun
symbol: birds
foreshadowing
9
"Beautiful tyrant! Just opposite to what thou seem’st. Damnèd saint, an honorable villain!"
light and dark imagery
pun
symbol: birds
oxymoron
10
"You have dancing shoes With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead."
pun
oxymoron
foreshadowing
metaphor
11
When a situation is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play.
irony
oxymoron
pun
foreshadowing
12
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea,My love as deep."
pun
light and dark imagery
symbol: birds
simile
13
"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon."
strong verbs
symbol: astral
simile
foreshadowing
14
"My nyas?(baby hawk)"
symbol: birds
simile
irony
light and dark imagery
15
"O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created!"
simile
oxymoron
symbol: astral
pun
16
"O, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon,That monthly changes in her circle orb."
irony
strong verbs
metaphor
symbol: astral
17
"It was the nightingale not the lark."
irony
pun
symbol: astral
symbol: birds
18
"This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.This but begins the woe others must end."
pun
foreshadowing
symbol: astral
oxymoron
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"Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes"
metaphor
symbol: birds
oxymoron
pun
20
"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead."
foreshadowing
pun
metaphor
personification
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Representing a non-human thing as if it were human
personification
foreshadowing
oxymoron
symbol
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Literary term that gives a hint that something is going to happen.
pun
oxymoron
irony
foreshadowing
23
"Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, And makes himself an artificial night."
light and dark images
simile
dramatic irony
symbol: birds
24
"I strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs."
symbol: birds
personification
simile
irony
25
"These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder."
contrasting elements
symbol: birds
pun
metaphor
26
"And yet, no man like he doth grieve my heart." Romeo as husband vs. Romeo as villain
irony
pun
foreshadowing
metaphor
27
"Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light."
symbol: astral
pun
irony
simile
28
"Thou detestable maw, thy rotten jaws open, And in despite, I'll cram thee with more food."
symbol: astral
personification
pun
contrasting elements
29
"So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows."
symbol: birds
strong verbs
pun
irony
30
"More light and light, more dark and dark our woes."
metaphor
pun
light and dark imagery
simile
31
"Go ask his name.—If he be married.My grave is like to be my wedding bed."
pun
foreshadowing
symbol: astral
irony
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The practice or art of using an object or a word to represent an abstract idea.
personification
symbol
foreshadowing
oxymoron
33
An _________ is a figure of speech that produces a self-contradictory effect. "bittersweet"
irony
foreshadowing
oxymoron
personification
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"The earth, that’s nature’s mother, is her tomb. What is her burying, grave that is her womb."
strong verbs
foreshadowing
pun
metaphor
35
"And so, good Capulet—which name I tender As dearly as my own—be satisfied."
metaphor
oxymoron
irony
contrasting elements
