Figures of speech
Comparing two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
What is the function of the colon below:
I am going to the shop buy these items: bread, milk, sugar and coffee.
What is a list?
"Draw, if you be men."
Who is Sampson?
The lines spoken by a character or characters in a play, essay, story, or novel, especially a conversation between two characters, or a literary work that takes the form of such a discussion.
What is dialogue?
This is Juliet's age in two summers.
What is fifteen?
Identify the figurative language in the quote below:
"Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget.
I'll pay that doctrine or else die in debt."
What is rhyme?
FANBOYS are examples of which types of conjunctions.
What are coordinating conjunctions?
"Part, fools!"
Who is Benvolio?
The hero in a work of literature.
What is a protagonist?
What does Lord Capulet tell Paris about his daughter Juliet in Scene 2?
What is, she is too young to be married?
Identify the figurative language in the quote below:
"But all so soon as the all-cheering sun"
What is personification?
Which conjunction would correctly join the sentences below:
I am so tired.
I need to study for my finals.
What is but?
What is yet?
"But he, his own affections' counselor."
Who is Montague?
In drama, a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words.
What is an aside?
When Benvolio spots the servants fighting on the street, what does he do?
What is, try to stop the fight.
What type of figurative language is shown in the quote below:
"The shady curtains from Aurora's bed"
What is allusion?
True or False. The following sentence is punctuated correctly.
"Can I go to the shop," asked Michael.
What is false?
"Tut, I have lost myself; I am not here..."
Who is Romeo?
Plays which tend to have a protagonist that suffers a separation and shows bad judgment, has deaths, the supernatural, revenge and comic relief.
What is a Shakespearean tragedy?
What event does the Prologue foreshadow?
What is the death of Romeo and Juliet?
Identify the figurative language in the quote below:
"As is the bud bit with an envious worm"What is a simile?
True or False. The following sentence is punctuated correctly.
"I am hungry," complained Cathy, "When will we eat?"
What is false?
"Of honorable reckoning are you both..."
Who is Paris?
A part of drama in which an actor has a speech they give alone, but there may be other actors on the stage as well.
What poetic device does Shakespeare use frequently in the play regarding the rhythm?
What is iambic pentameter?