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Devices
Sonnets
100

Is willing to change her last name.

Juliet

100

The Prologue reveals that the only thing that could end the feud between the families is:

The death of their children

100

“O! I am fortune's fool!”

Romeo

100

“So shows a dove trooping with crows / As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.”

Imagery

100

A section of four lines.

Quatrain
200

Doesn't want to get married.

Rosaline

200

The play's time period.

Elizabethan England

200

“Stand up, stand up. Stand an you be a man./For Juliet’s sake, for her sake, rise and stand.”

The Nurse

200

 “I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.”

Metaphor

200

A pair of rhyming lines.

Couplet

300

Romeo's mentor.

Friar Laurence

300

The both know about Romeo and Juliet getting married.

Friar Laurence & The Nurse

300

"A plague o' both your houses!”

Mercutio

300

“loving hate”

“heavy lightness”

“cold fire”

Oxymoron

300

Identify rhyme pattern:

"Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."


ABAB

400

Goes to Juliet's grave to pay his respects.

Paris

400
Poisons himself.

Romeo 

400

"All are punished!"

The Prince

400

 “A glooming peace this morning with it brings;/The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head/Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things…”

Personification

400

The number of lines in a Shakespearean sonnet.

14

500

The peacemaker.

Benvolio

500

The six people who die by the end of the play.

Romeo

Juliet

Lady Montague

Mercutio

Tybalt

Paris

500

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;..."

The Prologue/The Chorus

500

“O my love, my wife,/Death that had sucked the honey upon they beauty./Thou art not conquered."

Personification

500
A meter containing 5 sets of iambs.

Iambic Pentameter

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