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Romeo + Juliet Figurative Language

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

ROMEO: Not I, believe me You have dancing shoes With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead

a)

Allusion

b)

Pun

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Aside

2.

JULIET: Go ask his name: if he be married/My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

a)

Pun

b)

Personification

c)

Foreshadowing

d)

Tone

3.

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

a)

Metaphor

b)

Foil

c)

Imagery

d)

Aside

4.

Which of these lines is spoken in iambic pentameter?

a)

Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days

b)

Quarrel, I will back thee

c)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are

d)

Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels?

5.

BENVOLIO: Part, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.[Beats down their swords] Which is stage directions?

a)

BENVOLIO:

b)

Part, fools!

c)

Put up your swords; you know not what you do.

d)

[Beats down their swords]

6.

Which is an example of a monologue?

a)

Romeo and Juliet's first conversation at the party

b)

Prince Escalus breaking up the fight in Act I, Scene 1

c)

Juliet talking to the moon about the cute boy she met at the party

d)

Juliet begging the nurse to give her news about Romeo

7.

Which is an example of a soliloquy?

a)

Friar Lawrence scolding Romeo for crying so much

b)

Tybalt wanting to start a fight when he sees Romeo at the party

c)

Juliet pacing the floor wondering aloud why the Nurse hasn't come back yet

d)

Juliet telling Romeo that maybe they are moving too fast

8.

A Shakespearean sonnet has:

a)

12 lines, and is in iambic pentameter

b)

12 lines, and an ABAB CDCD EFEF rhyme scheme

c)

14 lines, and is in iambic pentameter

d)

14 lines, and an ABBA CDDC EFG EFG rhyme scheme

9.

ROMEO: But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. This is an example of:

a)

Metaphor

b)

Allusion

c)

Oxymoron

d)

Theme

10.

When Prince Escalus says that the penalty for fighting in the future will be death, his TONE is:

a)

Arrogant

b)

Bitter

c)

Exasperated

d)

Evasive

11.

Which might be one theme of Romeo & Juliet?

a)

There is no such thing as true love; it's only about physical desire

b)

Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight

c)

Teenagers are too young to understand what real love is

d)

Love can be an overpowering force that is stronger than your other values

12.

Which of these is an example of Dramatic Irony?

a)

Before the party, when Juliet's mother tells her about Paris's proposal

b)

Before the party, when Mercutio is teasing Romeo about Rosaline

c)

After the party, when Mercutio is teasing Romeo about Rosaline

d)

After the party, when Juliet talks to Romeo from her balcony

13.

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

a)

Romeo's dream about his own death

b)

Juliet's father insisting she marry Paris

c)

The Nurse's jokes about marriage

d)

Juliet's comments about the beauty of the night

14.

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:

a)

allusion

b)

dramatic irony

c)

simile

d)

pun

15.

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:

a)

oxymoron

b)

alliteration

c)

metaphor

d)

personification

16.

Romeo and Juliet is an example of this type of play:

a)

history

b)

comedy

c)

musical

d)

tragedy

17.

Act V begins as Romeo is speaking onstage to himself, telling his innermost thoughts. This is an example of:

a)

monologue

b)

aside

c)

soliloquy

d)

dramatic irony

18.

When Romeo says that he has a feeling the party will be the start of something bad, something that will end with his own death, what figurative language is being used?

a)
Simile
b)
Hyperbole
c)
Foreshadowing
d)

Oxymoron

19.

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,

like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Rhyme

20.

O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art as glorious to this night...

a)

Metaphor

b)

Personification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Rhyme

21.

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books.

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Hyperbole

d)

Rhyme