Download Allusion, Dialog, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Repetition, Simile, Soliloquy

Romeo and Juliet Act I
Literary Terms in Context
Name_______________
Date______________
Word Bank:
Alliteration
Comedy
Dialog
Dramatic foil
Static (flat) character
Iambic Pentameter Metaphor
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Monologue
Oxymoron
Pun
Dynamic (round) character
Simile
Stage Directions
____________________ “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes”
____________________ “Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick
health”
____________________ Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.
Mercutio: And so did I
Romeo: Well, what was yours?
Mercutio: That dreamers often lie.
____________________ Mercutio’s “Queen Mab speech” is a famous
example of this.
____________________ “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a
rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear”
____________________ “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand”
____________________ Benvolio: I aimed so near when I supposed
you loved.
Romeo: A right good markman. And she’s
fair I love.
Benvolio: A right fair mark, fair coz, is
soonest hit.
Romeo: Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll be
not hit.
____________________ The meter Shakespeare writes his plays using.
____________________ exit Juliet and Nurse
____________________ The Nurse’s lines are an example of this.
Act II Literary Terms: choose one for each answer & repeat none
--similie, metaphor, pun, alliteration, allusion, dramatic irony, personification, monologue,
oxymoron
1.
____________________
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books;
But love to love, toward school with heavy looks.
2. ____________________
Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies
And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine
3. ____________________
Why, that same pale hardhearted wench, that Rosaline,
Torments him so that he will sure run mad.
(spoken by Mercutio)
4. ____________________
That’s as much as to say, such a case as yours
constrains a man to bow in the hams.
-Meaning, to curtsy.
Thou hast most kindly hit it.
-A most courteous exposition.
5. ____________________
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
6. ____________________
O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness!
Act III Literary Terms
Choose one literary term that best describes the quote:
Allusion, Dialog, Metaphor, Oxymoron, Repetition, Simile, Soliloquy
1._______________________ Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus’ lodging! Such a wagoner
As Phaeton would whip you to the west
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
2._______________________ Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!
3._______________________ Thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead.
There art though happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slewest Tybalt. There art thou happy.
The law, that threat’ned death, becomes thy friend
And turns it into exile. There art thou happy.
4._______________________ For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs
Act IV Literary Terms
Choose one literary term that best describes the quote:
Alliteration, Allusion, Dramatic Irony, Metaphor, Monolog, Simile, Soliloquy
1.___________________ ____ Juliet:
What if it be a poison which the friar
Subtly hath minist-red to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is…
…
2._______________________ Life and these lips have long been separated.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
3._______________________ Capulet:
Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,
Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.
[Enter Friar Lawrence and Paris with musicians]
Friar:
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
4._______________________ O love! O life!—not life, but love in death!