WorksheetsFigurative Language 2023
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Beautiful tyrant! ... Dove-feathered raven ... A damned saint ..." (3.2.75-79)
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
personification
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"O loving hate! ... O heavy lightness! serious vanity!" (1.1.169-171)
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
personification
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow" (1.1.201-202).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Nay, he's a flower, in faith---a very flower" (1.3.79).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like a thorn" (1.4.25-24).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day" (1.4.45).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand..." (1.5.93).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nickname for her purblind son and heir, Young Adam Cupid..." (2.1.11-13).
oxymoron
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,..." (2.2.4).
personification
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;..." (1.2.14).
personification
hyperbole
simile
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, And the place death, considering who thou art,..." (2.2.63-64).
personification
hyperbole
alliteration
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,..." (1.prologue).
personification
hyperbole
alliteration
metaphor
allusion
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used.
"Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,..." (2.prologue).
hyperbole
alliteration
metaphor
allusion
oxymoron
Read the line below from Romeo and Juliet, and then determine the figurative language used. CHOOSE TWO.
"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite" (2.2.133-135).
hyperbole
alliteration
simile
allusion
oxymoron
