Oh the Irony!
Romeo kissing Juliet before he knows she's a Capulet is an example of this type of irony.
What is dramatic irony?
"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! (2.2.2) contains this literary device.
What is metaphor?
"Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe; / A villain, that is hither come in spite / To scorn at our solemnity this night" (1.5.59-61).
Who is Tybalt?
Who is the first character to die?
Who is Mercutio?
This is why Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo to Juliet.
What is he thinks it will end the feud?
This is why the following quote is an example of dramatic irony: "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo" (2.2.33).
What is it is dramatic irony because Juliet does not realize Romeo is below her balcony listening to her?
Mercutio stating, "Ask for me tomorrow, and you / shall find me a grave man" (3.1.91-92), is an example of this literary device because it plays on both meanings of grave.
What is a pun?
"Your love says, like an honest gentleman, and a courteous, / and a kind, and a handsome, and, I warrant, a virtuous -- Where is your mother?" (2.5.54-55).
Who is Nurse?
He's a relative of Mercutio and Paris.
Who is the Prince?
This is why Juliet had to take the potion earlier than planned.
What is her father moved up her wedding to Paris up a day?
Mercutio saying, "Thy head is as full of Quarrels as an egg is full of meat" (3.1.21), to Benvolio is an example of this.
What is verbal irony? Benvolio is not quick to start fights. Mercutio is being sarcastic.
"Cold fire [and] sick health"(1.1.173) are examples of this.
What is oxymoron?
"I'll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning" (4.2.24).
Who is Capulet?
He tries to stop the servants from fighting.
Who is Benvolio?
This is Nurse's advice when Capulet threatens to disown Juliet.
What is marry Paris?
Romeo stating, "Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee / Doth much excuse the appertaining rage / To such a greeting" (3.1.57-59), after Tybalt calls him a villain contains these two types of irony.
What are dramatic and situational irony?
Juliet stating, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb" (3.5.55-56), contains these two literary devices.
What are foreshadowing and simile?
"My poverty but not my will consents" (5.1.75).
Who is Apothecary?
He plans to honor Juliet with a "statue in pure gold" (5.3.299).
Who is Montague?
Romeo loved her at the beginning of the play.
Who is Rosaline?
When this man states, "This is that banish'd haughty Montague / That murdered my love's cousin - with which grief / It is supposed the fair creature died" (5.3.49-51), it is an example of dramatic irony because he thinks Juliet's grief over Tybalt killed her when she isn't actually dead.
Who is Paris?
"What if [Juliet's] eyes were there [in heaven], they [two stars] in her head? / The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven / Would through the airy region so bright / That birds would sing and think it were not night" (2.2.18-22) contains three literary devices. Name two.
What are simile, personification, and hyperbole?
"I could not send it -- here it is again-- / Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, / So fearful were they of infection" (5.2.14-16).
Who is Friar John?
Who is Sampson?
In the play, NOT the movie, he tells Romeo that he saw Juliet placed in the Capulet tomb.
Who is Balthasar?