Starts with "P"
“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief” (2.2.4)
What is personification?
“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.2).
What is a metaphor?
“That ‘banished,’ that one word ‘banished’ Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts” (3.2.114-115).
What is hyperbole?
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!" (1.5.49).
What is love?
(Did my heart ever love anyone before this moment?)
“You have dancing shoes, With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead” (1.4.15-16).
What is a pun?
“It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night, Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear” (1.5.44).
What is a simile?
"I fear too early, for my mind misgives, Some consequence yet hanging in the stars" (1.4.108-109).
What is foreshadowing?
(I'm worried we'll get there too early. I have a feeling this party tonight will be the start of something bad)
“I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes” (2.2.75).
What is dark (night)?
(The darkness will hide me from them)
"She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses. I will answer it " (2.2.12-13).
What is personification?
(She's talking, but she's not saying anything. So what? Her eyes are saying something. I will answer them.)
“Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” (3.2.76)
What is an oxymoron?
"Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit, With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit" (1.1.201-203).
What is an allusion?
(to Cupid, Roman god of love and Diane, the Roman goddess of hunting).
“Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel!” (1.1.74)
What is hate?
(You rebels! Enemies of the peace! Men who turn their weapons against their own neighbors.)
“Oh, she is rich in beauty, only poor” (1.1.209)
What is a paradox?
Nurse talking to Juliet about Paris. . .
“Why, he’s a man of wax” (1.3.78)
What is a metaphor?
Juliet says to Romeo as he leaves her balcony:
"O God, I have an ill-divining soul. Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb" (3.5.53-55).
What is foreshadowing?
(Oh God, I have a soul that predicts evil things! Now that you are down there, you look like someone dead in the bottom of a tomb.)
“Let two more summers wither in their pride, Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride” (1.2.11).
What is youth?
(Let's wait two more summers before we start thinking she's ready to get married.)
“I am not I if there be such an I, Or those eyes shut that makes thee answer ‘ay’ (3.2.49-50
What is a pun?
(Pun on words. . . eye = eyes to see, 'ay' = yes, I = oneself).
“Thy head is full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling” (3.1.21
What is a simile?
(Your head is full of fights as an egg is full of yolk, but your head has been beaten like scrambled eggs from so much fighting).
"I am hurt. A plague o' bot your houses!" (3.1.86-87).
What is an allusion?
(Mercutio is referring to the Bubonic plague)
"O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As a winged messenger of heaven' (2.2.26-27).
What is light?
(Oh, speak again, bright angel! You are as glorious as an angel tonight. You shine above me, like a winged messenger from heaven. . . )