Romeo and Juliet Act 2 (literary devices)

pun

• rearranging the grammatical elements of a sentence in order to fit a poetic meter

• a brief reference to a notable person, p lace, thing, event or idea in history, literature, or religion

• contrary ideas expressed in a balanced sentence

• a play of words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications

soliloquy

• a speech, usually lengthy, in which a character, alone on stage, expresses his or her thought aloud to himself or herself

• speech, usually long, that is given by a character to an intended audience

• straightforward, ordinary speech does not contains rhythm or meter

• the dramatic device where in a character speaks to someone that is absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alives, present, and able to reply

allusion

• a brief speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage

• straightforward, ordinary speech does not contains rhythm or meter

• a play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications

• a brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion

aside

• a play on words, often humorous, that allows for multiple meanings or applications

• a unit of poetic verse consisting of two successive lines. this device uses the same meter and rhyme, and forms a complete thought

• a brief speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors on stage

• a brief reference to a notable person, place, thing, event, or idea in history, literature, or religion

What literary device is seen in this quote?

"It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, too like the lightning" (II.ii.119-120).

• imagery

• personfication

• simile

• metaphor

“Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting. It is a most sharp sauce.”
Which literary device is being used?

• metaphor
• simile
• personification
• alliteration

“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” Romeo uses a ________________ here to compare Juliet to the sun.

• paradox
• epilogue
• metaphor
• simile

Juliet asks Romeo how he found her balcony, and Romeo replies, "By love, who first did prompt me to inquire; He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes." 
 What literary device is being used by Romeo here?

• personification
• irony
• symbolism
• falling action

What is an oxymoron

• A stupid literary device which makes no sense.

• It's basically a simile.

• Two opposite words placed next to each other.

• A contrast of two themes or ideas in a work of fiction.

Romeo uses an oxymoron to describe love as 'heavy lightness'. What does this imply about Romeo's love for Rosaline?

• That his love for Rosaline is light but heavy.

• That his love for Rosaline is both powerful and dangerous.

• That there is no such thing as love and his feelings for Rosaline are not real.

• That love should make you feel light at heart but his heart feels heavy with misery.