Literary Devices
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
What is a metaphor
This is the character that first makes Romeo depressed.
Who is Rosaline?
This is the town where the story takes place.
What is Verona?
"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, / Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be / Ere one can say 'It lightens.'"
What is a simile?
The Act 1 and 2 prologues are this type of 14 line poem.
What is a Sonnet?
O brawling love, o loving hate, o anything of nothing first create.
What is an oxymoron?
His name means "good will" or "well wisher."
Who is Benvolio?
This is where Romeo first meets Juliet.
What is the Capulets' masquerade ball?
Juliet: At what o'clock tomorrow / Shall I send to thee? / Romeo: By the hour of nine. / Juliet: I will not fail; 'tis twenty year till then.
What is a hyperbole?
Traditionally, these are indicated with lowercase Roman numerals.
What are scenes?
Now old desire doth in his death bed lie, / and young affection gapes to be his heir.
What is personification?
This character says "with love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls / for stony limits cannot keep love out."
Who is Romeo?
This is what Romeo overhears Juliet say in the balcony scene.
What is a confession of her love for Romeo?
"What if her eyes were there, they in her head?"
What is alliteration?
This poetic meter has ten syllables which alternate between stressed and unstressed.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Romeo: The game was ne'er so fair, and I am done. Mercutio: Tut, dun's the mouse, the constable's own word.
What is a pun?
This character reveals to Juliet that Romeo is a Montague.
Who is Nurse?
This is what Juliet wishes Romeo could do.
What is change his last name?
Allusions to these are frequently made in the play.
What are the ancient Roman gods?
This is the word for Friar Laurence's speech about virtue and vice in 2.3.
What is a soliloquy?
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied.
What is a metaphor?
This character starts a street brawl after being provoked by the Capulets.
Who is Abram?
This is why Friar Laurence agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet.
What is Friar Laurence's solution for the feud?
This is the metaphor Romeo uses when he first meets Juliet.
What is the pilgrim and saint?
This is the word for Mercutio's long Queen Mab speech when talking to Romeo.
What is a monologue?