Romeo and Juliet Acts 4 &5 Figurative Language

In scene two, the friar realizes that he must go get Juliet since his message did not reach Romeo. He says of Juliet, “Poor living corpse,* closed in a dead man’s tomb!” (5.2.30) Referring to Juliet as a “living corpse”* is an example of:

• oxymoron

• allusion

• simile

• Pun

At the beginning of scene one, Romeo tells that he “dreamt my lady came and found me dead” (5.1.6). This is a hint of what is to come and therefore an example of:

• allusion

• foreshadowing

• simile

• metaphor

In scene one, 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:

• allusion

• dramatic irony

• simile

• pun

In scene three, Romeo threatens Balthasar saying, “I will tear thee joint by joint/ And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs” (5.3.35-36). The phrase “this hungry churchyard” is an example of:

• allusion

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

Lady Capulet looks on the lovers’ dead bodies and says “this sight of death is as a bell/ That warns my old age” (5.3.214-215). Comparing the sight of death to a warning bell is an example of:

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

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

• oxymoron

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

In scene two, Friar John makes a reference to the Black Death stating that he was in a house that was suspected of “infectious pestilence” (5.2.10). This reference is an example of:

• allusion

• oxymoron

• personification

• simile

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

• history

• comedy

• musical

• tragedy

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

• monologue

• aside

• soliloquy

• dramatic irony

Romeo and Juliet is a __________ story

• coming of age

• mystery

• thriller

• comedy