Romeo & Juliet Literary Terms

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“This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when we next meet,” is an example of?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

an indirect suggestion which is usually derogatory or lewd in nature

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Innuendo

• Paradox

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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“My naked weapon is out. Quarrel, I will back thee.” (Act 1, Scene 1) is an example of?

• double entendre

• paradox

• simile

• literal language

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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a word or phrase that sounds like the intended word or phrase but has a different meaning such as "confidence" being said instead of "conference"

• paradox

• innuendo

• metaphor

• malapropism

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Who has the most puns in Romeo and Juliet?

• Prince Escalus

• Mercutio

• Benvolio

• Juliet

“My only love sprung from my only hate.” Juliet

is a great example of a central

• simile

• metaphor

• confusing statement

• paradox

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.4

A figure of speech that combines apparently contradictory terms, usually side by side

• paradox

• oxymoron

• pun

• innuendo

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

A comparison without using "like" or "as" that continues for several passages or paragraphs is called a(n)

• metaphor

• simile

• extended metaphor

• paradox

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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“My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.” Act 2, Scene 2 is an example of

• a paradox

• an oxymoron

• a predicament

• conflict

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

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Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical, dove-feathered raven, wolfish ravening lamb!​

A damn’d saint, an honorable villain.” These phrases are examples of

• paradox

• oxymoron

• personification

• rhyming couplet

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4