RJ Literary Devices

“Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms

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

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)

• Symbolism

• Oxymoron

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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

-Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes; 

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

-Chorus (Prologue)

• Alliteration

• Repetition

• Symbolism

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

-Friar Lawrence (Act 2, Scene 3)

• Dramatic Irony

• Personification

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

“From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.”

-Chorus (Prologue)

• Opposites

• Symbolism

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

“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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

“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

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

“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

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5