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WorksheetsRJ Literary Devices
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
“Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…”
-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)
Symbolism
Oxymoron
Metaphor
“Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs...”
-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
“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)
Motif
Classical Allusion
Symbolism
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes;
A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.”
-Chorus (Prologue)
Alliteration
Repetition
Symbolism
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)
Foreshadowing
Simile
Imagery
“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night…”
-Friar Lawrence (Act 2, Scene 3)
Dramatic Irony
Personification
Allusion
“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”
-Chorus (Prologue)
Opposites
Symbolism
Simile
“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)
Metaphor
Simile
Foreshadowing
“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)
Imagery
Simile
Simile and Imagery
“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)
Personification
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Friar Lawrence's Vial of Sleeping Potion
The Apothecary's Vial of Deadly Poison
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Symbolism
Romeo does not know that Juliet is actually alive.
But we, the audience, do.
Poetic Form
Dramatic Irony
Foreshadowing
