That's Literary
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
What is a metaphor?
"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story . . ."
What is invocation?
"I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris."
What is verbal irony?
The herbs in Romeo and Juliet, which represent how the same thing can be used for both good and evil.
What is a symbol?
"Earth has swallowed all my hopes but she; / She's the hopeful lady of my earth."
What is personification?
"Odysseus, raider of cities."
Juliet's parents arrange for her to marry Paris, not realizing she is already married to Romeo.
What is dramatic irony?
Juliet: What o'clock tomorrow / Shall I sent to thee?
Romeo: By the hour of nine.
Juliet: I will not fail. 'Tis twenty years til then."
What is hyperbole?
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say 'It lightens.'"
What is simile?
What is epic simile?
Romeo and Juliet fall in love despite their families being enemies.
What is situational irony?
"You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
What is a pun?
"O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! / Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? / Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!"
What is oxymoron?
Odysseus boasts about who he really is after blinding Polyphemus.
What is hubris?
Juliet takes a sleeping potion end everyone, except for Friar Laurence, believes she is dead.
What is dramatic irony?
Juliet's speech alone on the balcony before she realizes Romeo is there.
What is a soliloquy?
"Accept the past as past, without denying or discarding it."
What is an aphorism?
The Odyssey begins many years into Odysseus' long journey home instead of at the beginning of his journey.
What is in medias res?
What is situational irony?
"Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale."
What is foreshadowing?