Literary Devices
What is the literary device in this quote?
"Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads;
take it in what sense thou wilt." - Sampson
Pun
Where is the play's setting?
Verona
Romeo's best friend
Mercutio
A sonnet is made up of how many lines?
14
What is the literary device used here where Romeo is crying about Rosaline?
... But all so soon as the all-cheering sun
Should in the farthest East begin to draw
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed...
Allusion
What gesture/action causes the fight between the Montagues and the Capulets at the beginning of the play?
Sampson bites his thumb at the Montagues
Benvolio
A line of verse that has five iambs that typically follow a pattern of unstressed (U) and stressed (/)
Iambic Pentameter
What is the literary device that is used in the Queen Mab speech Mercutio performs?
Monologue
How does Juliet respond when her mother asks how she feels about marriage?
"It is an honor I dream not of."
He swears that if the Montagues and Capulets fight again in the streets, they will pay with their lives.
Prince
What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet?
ABABCDCDEFEFGG
What is the literary device(s) being used in this example?
“Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.
Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love.
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate…”
Oxymorons
Where do Romeo and Juliet finally meet? What happens at their first meeting?
At Capulet's party - they speak in religious metaphor and kiss.
The fairy Mercutio raves about before the party. This speech causes him to become passionate and aggressive.
Queen Mab
What is a couplet (double points if you say what they signal)?
The last two lines of the poem that signal a turning point or a message
What is the literary device Romeo uses here?
“I fear too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night’s revels, and expire the term
Of a despisèd life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”
Foreshadowing
What makes Capulet so angry in the middle of Act I, Scene V?
Tybalt wants to fight Romeo even after Capulet asked him to calm down and not disrupt the party.
This character says the line, "Go girl, seek happy nights to happy days."
The Nurse
A sonnet has three of this groups of four lines.
Quatrains