Final Exam - review of Literary Terms

Poor living corpse

Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!

You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead

Juliet says that her “bounty is as boundless as the sea.”

Romeo says that Rosaline “hath Diana’s wit."

I took all my feelings... I buried them inside you. I planted a seed and watched and prayed.

What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

FL: The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb; / What is her burying grave that is her womb

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

Here comes Romeo. / Without his roe, like a dried herring

Romeo to Tybalt (III.i): I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise

Romeo, finding out about Juliet: "Is she a Capulet? / my life is my foe's debt." Audience knew.

Juliet, speaking to herself: Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron, all in black.

Troy, alone on stage, talking directly to Death.

Juliet talks to herself and considers the alternatives before deciding to take the poison.

LC: the blood is spilt, for blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. P: who began the bloody fray

The New Colossus: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs

O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness

Juliet, when told to marry Paris: If all else fail, myself have power to die.

The Shakespearean rhyme scheme?

Juliet, speaking to "fortune": O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle

Mercutio, stabbed: 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough

Stage Directions: Rose is 10 years younger than Troy.

Violent delights have violent ends/ & in their triumph die, like fire & powder, Which consume.

Two Sunflowers Move... ‘Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,’ said the sunflowers, shining...

Friar L: The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night

In Fences, the fence is a

Alberta "got them great big old legs and hips as wide as the Mississippi River."

Servant to Romeo: my master is Capulet; and if you aren't a Montague come & crush some wine.

Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie, / And young affection gapes to be his heir;

Romeo to Juliet: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand

O, he is the courageous captain of compliments.

Juliet: parting is such / sweet sorrow

FL: How much salt water thrown away in waste, / To season love, that of it doth not taste!

a 4-line stanza is called a

Mercutio, stabbed (III.i): Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch; marry, 'tis enough.

Based on conversations Troy has, we determine that he's a storyteller. This is an example of

III.i: The day's hot, the Capulets out/if we meet we will not escape a brawl/ blood is stirring

O brawling love, O loving hate

Romeo to J (balcony): if thou love me, let them find me/My life were better ended by their hate