Romeo and Juliet- Literary Terms

After Mercutio gets stabbed, he says about his wound, “It’s not as deep as a well, nor wide as a

church door…”

• pun

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

And then Mercutio continues saying, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man”

• soliloquy

• pun

• monologue

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

O heavy lightness, serious foolishness...feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire…”

• pun

• oxymoron

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

After their only night together, Juliet says to Romeo, “I think I see you now as if you were at the bottom of a grave. Either my eyes fail or you look pale.”

• foreshadowing

• pun

• allusion

• simile

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

"Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."

These are the first four lines of a ___________ in

the Prologue of Act 1.

• soliloquy

• monologue

• pun

• sonnet

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Romeo says to Mercutio after he's asked to go to the party, "I am too wounded with Cupid's arrow to fly with his light feathers, and, so bound, I cannot bound above sadness."

• allusion

• simile

• pun

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.7.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

When Romeo sees Juliet on her balcony, he’s talking to himself, but Juliet cannot hear him (only the audience can hear him), and he says, “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?.........”

• allusion

• sonnet

• soliloquy

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

When Romeo sees Juliet on her balcony, he says, “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun! When he compares her to the sun, this is an example of a ____________.

• simile

• pun

• allusion

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

After Juliet meets Romeo at the party, she is talking to Nurse and says, "If he be married, my grave will be my marriage bed." This literary device is called ___________

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• pun

• allusion

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

After Benvolio is trying to convince Romeo to go to the party, Romeo replies, "I fear too early, for I have doubts. Something will begin with tonight's party." This is an example of ___________.

• pun

• allusion

• sonnet

• foreshadowing

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9