Romeo and Juliet Review Literary Devices

Question 1

Identify the device: "Thisprecious book of love.../To beautify him only lacks a cover."

Accepted Answer

extended metaphor

Question 2

Identify the device: "You havedancing shoes/With nimble soles. I havea soul of lead."

Accepted Answer

pun

Question 3

Identify the device: Love: "is toorough,/Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn."

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 4

Identify the literary device used: "Loveis a smoke raised with the fume of sighs."

Accepted Answer

metaphor

Question 5

What literary device is used in these lines: "Theheads of the maids, or their/maidenheads."

Accepted Answer

pun

Question 6

Identify the device: "When well-appareled April on the heal oflimping Winter treads…"

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 7

The device?: "Itseems she hangs upon the cheek of night/Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear."

Accepted Answer

simile

Question 8

Identify the literary device:: "Featherof lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 9

Identify the device: "Ifhe be married,/My grave is like to be my wedding bed."

Accepted Answer

foreshadowing

Question 10

Identify the device: Shehath Dian’s wit/...From Love’s weakchildish bow she lives unharmed."

Accepted Answer

pun, allusion

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