Shakespeare's Literary Devices
What literary device is used when Lady Capulet says, “Find written in the margent of his eyes./ This precious book of love…”
Which character is a Capulet, Romeo or Juliet?
Juliet
Who says the following:
The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Friar Lawrence
This character acts somber and dejected because of his unrequited love for Rosaline.
Romeo
Who drives a small chariot and delivers dreams at night?
Queen Mab
What literary device is being used when Romeo says the following:
Well, in that hit you miss: she'll not be hit
With Cupid's arrow; she hath Dian's wit;
Allusion
What is the name of Juliet's hot-tempered cousin?
Tybalt
Who says the following:
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
Romeo
In Act 1, Scene 5, who is the "saucy boy?"
Tybalt
When Romeo and Juliet first meet what poetic does Shakespeare have them speak in?
A Sonnet
Who is the Capulet family foil?
The Nurse
Who says the following:
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.
Juliet
What is the poetic meter that most of the play is written in?
Iambic Pentameter
Lady Capulet encourages Juliet to mary a young suitor from Verona. What is that suitor's name?
Paris
A man, young lady—lady, such a man
As all the world—why, he’s a man of wax.
The Nurse
What literary device is being used in the following lines:
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
Oxymoron
This is the name of the literary device employed in Act 1, Scene 1 when Romeo addresses love as a concept.
Apostrophe
In Act 1, Scene 5, who is Lord Capulet addressing when he says the following:
For you and I are past our dancing days.
How long is ’t now since last yourself and I
Were in a mask?
Cousin Capulet
This cannot anger him. ’Twould anger him
To raise a spirit in his mistress’ circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down.
Mercutio
Who is the first member of the house of Montague we meet in Act 1, Scene 1?
Abram