Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language

Front

Figure of speech: Human qualities to objects/animals

Back

Personification

Front

Audience knows something character doesn't

Back

Dramatic Irony

Front

Pun

Back

Play on words with similar sounds, different meanings

Front

Comparison using like or as

Back

Simile

Front

Combines opposites

Back

Oxymoron

Front

Metaphor

Back

Comparison of unlike objects without using like or as

Front

Difference between what is said and meant

Back

Verbal Irony

Front

Alliteration

Back

Repetition of beginning sounds, usually consonants, in a group of words.

Front

Two lines of poetry that rhyme

Back

Couplet

Front

14 line poem, 3 quatrains + 1 couplet, rhyme: abab cdcd efef gg

Back

Shakespearean Sonnet