Examples of Literary Devices
"Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back."
A metaphor
Giving life-like qualities to an inanimate object
Personification
How Mercutio dies
He's stabbed
Where this scene takes place(be specific)
The balcony to Juliet's room at the Capulet's house
The two people that fall in love at the party
Romeo and Juliet
"Smile the heavens upon this holy act."
Personification
A reference to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is familiar
Allusion
How Mercutio feels about the Capulets entering
He does not care
What Romeo compares Juliet to
The sun
Where the party takes place
The Capulets' house
"Scaring the ladies like a scarecrow."
A simile
One quality that every tragic hero in Shakespeare's plays has
A tragic flaw
The theme that is shown when Romeo kills Tybalt
Vengeance
The first 14 lines of act 2
A sonnet
Who Romeo loved before he met Juliet
Rosaline
"By my head, here come the Capulets." "By my heel, I care not."
Humor
A poem with 14 lines written in iambic pentameter.
A sonnet
The literary device that this scene is
A conflict
The kind of wall that Romeo climbed to see Juliet.
The orchard wall
Tybalt's emotion upon seeing Romeo at his party
Anger
The very first 14 lines of the play
Sonnet
A figure of speech pairing two words together that are opposing and/or contradictory.
An oxymoron
What does Romeo call himself after he kills Tybalt
Fortune's fool
The time that Juliet tells Romeo that she will send for him
9:00
Capulet's decision about making Romeo leave his party.
He allows him to stay.