Poetic Devices in Romeo and Juliet

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

Mercrutio is dying and says, “Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man”

• soliloquy

• pun

• monologue

• metaphor

Who is considered the best punster (The king of puns) in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

• Mercrutio

• Tybalt

• Romeo

• Frair Lawrance

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses puns. What is this literary device used for in the play?

• To throw the audience off about what is happening

• To create drama between the characters

• To bring a song to the play

• To bring amusement to the audience

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

• pun

• oxymoron

• allusion

• simile

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

"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

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

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

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