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RJ Literary Devices

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

“Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…”

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)

a)

Symbolism

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Metaphor

2.

“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs...” 

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

3.

“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, 

For stony limits cannot hold love out,

And what love can do, that dares love attempt. 

Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”

-Romeo (Act 2, Scene 2)

a)

Motif

b)

Classical Allusion

c)

Symbolism

4.

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; 

A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”

-Chorus (Prologue)

a)

Alliteration

b)

Repetition

c)

Symbolism

5.

It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden;

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be 

Ere one can say ‘it lightens.’”

-Juliet (Act 2, Scene 2)

a)

Foreshadowing

b)

Simile

c)

Imagery

6.

“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night…”

-Friar Lawrence (Act 2, Scene 3)

a)

Dramatic Irony

b)

Personification

c)

Allusion

7.

“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

-Chorus (Prologue)

a)

Opposites

b)

Symbolism

c)

Simile

8.

“I fear too early, for my mind misgives

Some consequence yet hanging in the stars

Shall bitterly begin his fearful date

With this night’s revels, and expire the term”

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 3)

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Foreshadowing

9.

“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright,

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night 

As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear"

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 5)

a)

Imagery

b)

Simile

c)

Simile and Imagery

10.

“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead

(Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!)

And breathed such life with kisses in my lips

That I revived and was an emperor.”

-Romeo (Act 5, Scene 1)

a)

Personification

b)

Foreshadowing

c)

Hyperbole

11.

Friar Lawrence's Vial of Sleeping Potion

The Apothecary's Vial of Deadly Poison

a)

Metaphor

b)

Oxymoron

c)

Symbolism

12.

Romeo does not know that Juliet is actually alive. 

But we, the audience, do.

a)

Poetic Form

b)

Dramatic Irony

c)

Foreshadowing