Who said it?
"A plague o' both your houses!"
Mercutio
“Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been/beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling” (III.i.23-25)
Simile
The nurse comes to Juliet while she's waiting for Romeo to ascend to her chamber. The nurse says: "He's dead, he's dead!" making Juliet assume Romeo is dead. We know the nurse is referring to Tybalt though. So this is an example of WHAT literary device?
dramatic irony
"thou art wedded to calamity”
"A pack of blessings light upon thy back"
The Friar/Friar Lawrence
"Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries/That thou hadst done me. Therefore turn and draw"
Tybalt
"O, I am Fortune's fool!"
Allusion
What bird do Romeo and Juliet hear in the morning, which signals that it is time for Romeo to leave?
a lark
“It’s not as wide as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ‘tis enough”
Simile
"Ha, banishment? Be merciful/ Say 'death,'/For exile hath more terror in his look,/ Much more than death..."
Romeo
"O, I am Fortune's fool!"
Romeo
A plague o’ both your houses”
Metaphor
When Romeo is leaving after they "spent the night" together, Juliet says, "More light and light, more dark and dark our woes” (III.v. 36). What does she mean by this?
The lighter it gets outsider/the closer it gets to morning, the darker their problems become.
"O serpent heart with a flowering face...dove feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!"
Oxymorons
Not proud you have, but thankful that you have/ proud can I never be of what I hate,/But thankful for the hate that is meant love"
Juliet
"Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!...get thee to church o' Thursday,/Or never look me in the face"
Lord Capulet
when a character speaks out their deepest thoughts; reveals them to the audience, this is called a ______.
Soliloquy
How is Romeo partially responsible for Mercutio's death?
“Oh 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”
Foreshadowing
"Stand up, stand up. Stand an you be a man./For Juliet's sake, for her sake, rise and stand"
The Nurse
Lady Capulet
“Come, civil night, / Thou sober-suited matron all in black, / And learn me how to lose a winning match / Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods”
Personification
“I’ll say yon gray is not the morning’s eye; ‘Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow”
Allusion
“As for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”
Pun/word play
"O serpent heart with a flowering face...dove feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!"
Juliet