Extended Metaphors
Romeo compares Juliet’s hand to this sacred place.
What is a holy shrine?
Calling Death a monster that wants Juliet is this type of figurative language.
What is personification?
Romeo and Juliet’s first conversation forms this 14-line poem.
What is a sonnet?
Romeo drinks poison because he believes Juliet is this.
What is dead?
Romeo uses many exclamation points at the end of his speech to show this emotion.
What is passion?
Romeo describes his lips as these travelers visiting a shrine.
What are pilgrims?
In the line where Romeo calls Juliet’s hand a “holy shrine,” what does the word “shrine” suggest about Juliet?
What is that she is very special or important?
A pattern of repeating sounds at the end of lines is called this.
What is a rhyme scheme?
Romeo decides to remain in the tomb because he wants to prove this.
What is his love for Juliet?
When Romeo speaks to his eyes, arms, and lips, Shakespeare is emphasizing Romeo’s this.
What are strong emotions?
Juliet calls Romeo this religious traveler.
What is a pilgrim?
What is a metaphor?
By the end of the sonnet, Romeo and Juliet finish each other’s lines. This suggests they are this.
What is a good match for each other?
Romeo says he will stay with Juliet forever because he believes Death wants to do this.
What is take Juliet away from him?
Romeo’s language in the tomb creates this tone.
What is tragic or dramatic?
The religious imagery in the first meeting scene mainly helps Romeo and Juliet do this.
What is flirt with each other?
When Romeo says he will “shake the yoke of inauspicious stars,” he means he wants to escape this.
What is fate or destiny?
The structure of the sonnet helps show the characters’ growing this.
What is connection or attraction?
Romeo’s actions in the tomb show he values this more than his own life.
What is love?
Shakespeare uses figurative language to help the audience understand Romeo’s this.
What are his emotions?
The extended metaphor compares love to this type of religious experience?
What is worship or pilgrimage?
Romeo describing worms as Juliet’s “chambermaids” suggests he feels this emotion about joining her in death.
What is comfort or devotion?
The change from separate rhymes to shared rhymes symbolizes this.
What is their emotional connection?
Romeo believes he can escape fate by doing this.
What is dying to stay with Juliet?
Romeo’s final speech is meant to make the audience feel this.
What is sympathy for Romeo?