Figurative Language Review and R&J figurative language

How do you feel about the play Romeo and Juliet now that we have finished "reading" the play?

• It's alright

• I liked how we focused on what is going on in the play instead of having to read lines from the play.

• I liked the play and how we did the "reading". I want to see the movie.

• I didn't like the play but how we went through the play in class was good.

• I somewhat liked/didn't like the play but I wish we would have read the play out loud in class.

Which is an example of a simile?

• The rain was like tears falling from the sky.

• The rain were tears falling from the sky.

• The rain is falling from the sky

• The rain feels wet as it falls from the sky.

Match the following

• phrase expressing meaning that is not supposed to betaken literally

• Alliteration

• to give human traits to nonhuman things

• Personification

• a comparison of two things without “like” or “as”

• Idiom

• when a series of words begin with the same consonant sound

• Oxymoron

• a statement that seems contradictory but is actually true

• Metaphor

Match the following

• when someone says one thing but means another (often, but not always, sarcasm)

• Dramatic Irony

• when the audience knows something a character does not

• Onomatopoeia

• the difference between what we expect to happen and what actually happens

• Hyperbole

• word that denotes a sound

• Verbal Irony

• a highly exaggerated claim

• Situational Irony

Which is the definition of Imagery?

• the use of the five senses: hearing, sight, smell, touch, and taste

• the use of the four senses: touch, feel, sight and description

• the use of the six senses: taste, texture, touch, thickness, tallness, toughness

• the use of the five+1 senses: sound, taste, touch, thoughts, scent, and feel

Which is an example of personification?

• It was a beautiful day; the sun smiled down upon us.

• It was a great day: the day felt short because it was Friday.

• It was a terrible day because it is Monday.

• It was a good day: the sun was out all day in a cloudless sky.

For literary "Tone", this type of tone means

• the attitude the author or character has towards a subject or topic

• the sound a person makes

• the feeling the audience has for a topic or subject

• the feeling the author or character has for another character

The quote below is an example of what type of figurative language?

“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” (2.2.4-6).

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole

What is Juliet foreshadowing in Act III Scene V? 

“O God, I have an ill-divining soul. 

Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low

As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. 

Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale” (3.5. 54-57).

• Tybalt’s funeral

• Romeo’s death

• Mercutio’s death

• The Nurse’s death

What does the quote below tell the reader about Juliet’s state of mind in Act 4 Scene 1?

“I long to die if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy” (4.1.67).

• She is being dramatic and over-exaggerating.

• She is angry with her father.

• She is extremely sick.

• She is desperate to get out of her pending marriage to Paris.