A figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn’t literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

A type of figurative language that describes something by comparing it to something else with the words like or as.

Two-line stanzas. These lines are often of the same length. Historically, these were metered in a similar manner, often achieving closure through full rhyme.

Sometimes called slant, imperfect, partial, near, or oblique;

Two words share just a vowel sound (assonance – e.g. “heart” and “star”) or in they share just a consonant sound (consonance – e.g. “milk” and “walk”).

This metered foot has two syllables, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

This type of verse has five feet. This means a line of this verse has 10 syllables

Unrhyming verse in iambic pentameter lines. This means that the rhythm is biased towards a pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one (iambic) and that each normal line has ten syllables, five of them stressed (pentameter).

The set of letters that represent the rhyming pattern of a poem. We call these “letter variables,” and we use capital letters to indicate which lines rhyme with each other. If you want to determine which rhyme scheme a poem follows, look to the last sound in the line. Label every new ending sound with a new letter. Then when the same sound occurs in the next lines, use the same letter.

The main building block of a poem. It is a unit of poetry composed of lines that relate to a similar thought or topic—like a paragraph in prose or a verse in a song.

Focuses on the attributes of love and beauty, has 14 lines, iambic pentameter verse, and a rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

Which is the following passage an example of:

“...O heavy lightness, serious vanity,

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms...

“Romeo & Juliet” Act I, Scene i

Which is the following passage an example of:

“Love is a smoke raised with a fume of sighs;

Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes..."

Which is the following passage an example of:

“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,

Too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like a thorn.”

“Romeo & Juliet” Act I, Scene iv, Lines 25-26

Which is the following passage an example of:

“One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun

Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun”

“Romeo & Juliet” Act I, Scene ii, Lines 94-95

What is the following passage an example of:

“Now Romeo is beloved and loves again.

Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;

But to his foe supposed he must complain,

And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.”

“Romeo & Juliet” Act II, Prologue, Lines 5-8

What is the following an example of:

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Which one is an iambic foot?

What is the following passage an example of:

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“Oh, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

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She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes 

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in shape no bigger than an agate stone…”

“Romeo & Juliet” Act I, Scene iv, Lines 53-55

What is the following passage an example of:

Now old desire in his deathbed lie,

And young affection gapes to be his heir

That fair for which love groaned for and would die,

With tender Juliet matched, is now not fair

Now Romeo is beloved and loves again,

Alike bewitched by the charm of looks;

But to his foe supposed he must complain,

And she steal love’s sweet bait from fearful hooks.

Being held a foe, he may not have access

To breathe such vows as lovers use to swear,

And she as much in love, her means much less

To meet her new beloved anywhere;

But passion lends them power, time means to meet,

Temp’ring extremities with extreme sweet.