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Literary Devices
Literary Devices cont.
Dramatic Conventions
Themes
Key Quotes
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Foreshadowing *Provide an example from the play.
What is hints or clues that suggest events that have yet to occur? Friar Laurence: "These violence delights have violent ends / and in their triumph die" *Friar Laurence's words serve to hint at the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet.
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Metaphor versus Simile
What is a comparison of two unlike things NOT using the words like or as (metaphor) versus using like or as (simile)? Metaphor - Friar Laurence: “Within the infant rind of this small flower Poison hath residence and medicine power: For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part; Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. Two such opposed kings encamp them still, In man as well as herbs, - grace and rude will” Simile - Friar Laurence: "These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which, as they kiss, consume."
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Sonnet *Provide an example of a sonnet in the play.
What is a 14 line poem that is written in iambic pentameter. Example: Prologue
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The fickle nature of love *Provide examples.
What is Romeo's feelings toward Roseline changing so quickly? What is Romeo falling in love with Juliet at first sight?
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Romeo speaking to a 'dead' Juliet: "Beauty’s ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks"
What is revealing there is still life in Juliet?
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Dramatic Irony *Provide an example from the play.
What is when the audience knows something that a character does not know? Balthazar: "Her body sleeps in Capels’ monument" *We know as an audience that Juliet is drugged, but everyone else believes she is dead. Romeo: "O, I am fortune's fool!" Mercutio: "Help me into some house, Benvolio,/ or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses!/ They have made worms’ meat of me. I have it,/ and soundly too. Your houses!"
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Personification *Provide an example from the play.
What is giving inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics? Lord Capulet: “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded: I will die, And leave him all; life, living, all is Death's.”
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Chorus -who -purpose
What is an actor who recites the prologue (similar to a narrator)? The chorus reveals the setting the audiences should imagine while watching the play, and also summarizes what to expect in the play.
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The destructiveness of secrets *Provide examples.
What is the downfall of Romeo and Juliet? What is the friar's plan? What is Romeo and Juliet's marriage?
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Romeo to the Apothecary: “There is thy gold – worse to men’s souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world / Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell”
What is greed corrupts and kills more than poison does?
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Pun *Provide an example from the play.
What is a play on words in which a humorous effect is produced by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by exploiting similar sounding words having different meanings? Mercutio: "That dreamers often lie." Romeo: "In bed asleep while they do dream things true"
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Diction *Provide an example from the play.
What is specific word choice? Romeo calls the poison a “cordial” and Juliet calls her dagger “happy”
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Aside *Provide an example of an aside from the play. *Explain the purpose.
What is a private conversation two characters have on stage that other characters cannot hear? R&J Act 1, scene 1: Sampson and Gregory
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Religious Distortion *Provide examples.
What is manipulating religious ideas/concepts for a new purpose. Juliet being compared to angels and saints. Romeo puts her up on a pedestal of perfection, which in reality she could never measure up to. When Romeo says: "Call me but love, and I will be new baptized."
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Juliet on the balcony: "What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself."
What is names are just titles that do not make the person?
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Oxymoron *Provide an example from the play.
What is two incongruous or contradictory words are placed right next to each other, as in “cold fire” or “bright smoke”? Friar Laurence calls Juliet a "living corpse."
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Character Foil: Tybalt and Benvolio
What is a character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character? What is Tybalt is hot-head and quick to anger while Benvolio is the peacemaker? TYBALT: "What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death." BENVOLIO: "I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword, Or manage it to part these men with me." TYBALT: "What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee: Have at thee, coward!"
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Monologue
What is a long speech given to other actors/characters on the stage/in the scene?
400
Teens make hasty decisions without considering all of the possible consequences. *Provide examples.
What is the reason for the accelerated time frame of the play (5 days)?
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Mercutio: "Help me into some house, Benvolio,/ or I shall faint. A plague o’ both your houses!/ They have made worms’ meat of me. I have it,/ and soundly too. Your houses!"
What is an example of dramatic irony? What is Mercutio cursing both the Capulets and Montagues for their part in his death? What is the climax/turning point of the play?
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Antithesis *Provide an example from the play.
What is contrasting ideas presented in a balanced way? Love/Hate Light/Dark Day/Night Capulet/Montague Life/Death Violence/Peace Youth/Experience Romeo: “More light and light, more dark and dark our woes”
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Character Foil: Romeo and Mercutio
What is a character whose actions or thoughts are juxtaposed against those of a major character in order to highlight key attributes of the major character? What is Romeo is a dreamer while Mercutio is practical and a realist? Mercutio: "That dreamers often lie." Romeo: "In bed asleep while they do dream things true"
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Soliloquy
What is a speech given when an actor is alone of the stage in order to share the thoughts and feelings of the character?
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The inevitability of Fate *Provide examples.
What is the driving force behind the play? Romeo and Juliet cannot escape their fate. -Mercutio's death / Tybalt's death / Romeo's banishment -Friar John's quarantine
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When Balthazar tells Romeo that Juliet lies dead in her family's tomb, Romeo cries out, "I defy you stars!"
What is irony? In killing himself, Romeo will be fulfilling his own doomed destiny.