Who Said That?
"Wherefore art thou Romeo"
Juliet
shares his name with famous Trojan; interred by a “dead man”
Paris
an exaggeration
Hyperbole
Through his actions, we see that Tybalt's nature is to
fight
“Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds/Toward Phoebus’ lodging! Such a wagoner as Phaeton would whip you to the West, and bring in cloudy night immediately.”
Hyperbole
"A plague on both your houses,"
kin of the royal family; “consorts” with the Montagues
Mercutio
the repetition of initial consonant sounds
alliteration
When Mercutio says, "A plague on both your houses," he has just been
stabbed by Tybalt and is about to die.
“…the wind who woos/even now the frozen bosom of the North/And, being angered, puffs away from thence/Turning his face o the dew-dropping South.”
Personification
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
Romeo
delivers misguided news to Romeo; Romeo’s “man”
Balthazar
using words that are intended to impact one or more of the 5 senses.
imagery
After Romeo killed Tybalt, Romeo directly went to hide at
Friar Laurence's cell
“You have dancing shoes/ With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead so stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”
pun
"Women may fall when there’s no strength in men."
Friar Lawrence
sells illegal items when the money’s right
Apothecary
a play on words – when a word has two different meanings
pun
Arriving to inspect the corpses of Paris, Romeo, and Juliet, the Montagues and Capulets realize too late
the foolishness of their bitter quarrel
“This day’s black fate on mo days doth depend;
This but begins the woe that others must end.”
Couplet
"What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word. As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee."
Tybalt
loses a brace of kinsmen in the tragedy
Prince
two rhyming lines that are back-to-back in a stanza
Couplet
The Capulets and Montagues agree to end the feud and
raise statues of their dead children
“I talk of dreams/Which are the children of an idle brain….”
Metaphor