Shakespearean Literary Devices

Question 1

"the worshipp'd sun/Peer'd forth the golden window of the east", is an example of what?

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Personification

Question 2

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs... What is it else? A madness", is an example of?

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Metaphor

Question 3

In 3.5 when Juliet talks about Romeo, "I never shall be satisfied with Romeo", she is using...

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Verbal Irony

Question 4

"But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next", is an example of what?

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Alliteration

Question 5

"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man", is an example of what?

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Pun

Question 6

"There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee/But thou slew [him]: there art thou happy". ???

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Repitition

Question 7

"One more, most welcome, makes my number more", is an example of what?

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Alliteration

Question 8

"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate", is an example of what?

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Oxymoron

Question 9

"A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life", from the Prologue, is an example of what?

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Foreshadowing

Question 10

"Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word/One nickname for his... son.../... Cupid". Device?

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Allusion

Question 11

"Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch", said when Mercutio is stabbed, is an example of what?

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Verbal Irony

Question 12

"to himself... as is the bud bit with an envious worm", is an example of what?

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Simile

Question 13

"Like Death when he shuts up the day of life", is an example of what?

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Simile, Personification

Question 14

"I must love a loathed enemy", is an example of what?

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Paradox, Oxymoron

Question 15

"I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes", is an example of what?

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Imagery

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