Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language

Figurative Language:
"Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded."

• Personification 

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Figurative Language:
"Death lies on her like an untimely frost"

• Metaphor 

• Simile

• Irony

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Figurative Language:
"Poor living corpse" 

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Irony

• Oxymoron

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What literary device is used in the following quote: "Juliet: Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!"

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

What literary device is being used? "It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!"

• Personification

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• 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

What does Romeo consistently compare Juliet to?

• the moonlight

• fire

• light

• angels

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

When Romeo looks on Juliet’s “dead” body, he say that “death’s pale flag is not advanced” on her lips and cheeks (5.3.97). Comparing a corpse’s pallor to a pale flag is an example of:

• oxymoron

• alliteration

• metaphor

• personification

Tags

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 is listening to Juliet on the balcony and he speaks to the audience asking if he should let her know he is there.

• Metaphor

• Foil

• Imagery

• Aside

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which of these is an example of foreshadowing in Romeo & Juliet?

• Romeo's dream about his own death

• Juliet's father insisting she marry Paris

• The Nurse's jokes about marriage

• Juliet's comments about the beauty of the night

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Balthasar comes to tell Romeo that Juliet is dead, and “her immortal part with angels lives” (5.1.20). The audience knows this is not true, but Romeo does not, causing tension and becoming an example of this term:

• allusion

• dramatic irony

• simile

• pun

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A