Romeo and Juliet and Figurative Language Acts 1&2 #1

When Tybalt says of Romeo crashing the Capulet's party..."this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitt'rest gall" (Shakespeare 1.5.910-91), it is an example of:

• foreshadowing

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• personification

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When Romeo first meets Juliet he refers to her as "this holy shrine." This is an example of:

• foreshadowing

• pun

• oxymoron

• metaphor

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Romeo comparing Juliet to a shrine and saints does which of the following (select all that apply)

• Demonstrates that he thinks she is ugly

• Shows that he is confusing Juliet with someone else

• Shows that Juliet should be worshipped

• It is his way of saying he wants to marry her

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During the balcony scene, Juliet worries that if anything happened that night her and Romeo's love would be "too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere on can say "it lightens". This is an example of

• metaphor

• foreshadowing

• simile

• personification

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Juliet's comparison of their love to lightning highlights her worry that

• Their love has too much passion

• Their love for each other will end quickly

• Romeo is actually in love with someone else

• Once she knows Romeo she will not love him anymore

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After Juliet learns that Romeo is a Montague at her party she says "my only love sprung from my only hate." This is an example of

• allusion

• pardox

• metaphor

• sonnet

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When Romeo is complaining that Rosalind does not love her he says, "she'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow, she hath Dian's (Dian = Greek goddess of chastity) wit". He uses two of which element

• paradox

• simile

• allusion

• metaphor

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What two types of figurative language are used in the following quote?

“The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp”

• Simile; metaphor

• Personification; simile

• Hyperbole; metaphor

• Personification; onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,

Who is already sick and pale with grief,

That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she."

Romeo compares Juliet to the sun to suggest that she is -

• friendly

• such a happy person

• beautiful

• on fire

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"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words

Of that tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound."

This is an example of which type of figurative language?

• imagery

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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