Romeo + Juliet Figurative Language

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

• Allusion

• Pun

• Oxymoron

• Aside

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CCSS.L.8.5A

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

• Pun

• Personification

• Foreshadowing

• Tone

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

• Metaphor

• Foil

• Imagery

• Aside

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CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Which of these lines is spoken in iambic pentameter?

• Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days

• Quarrel, I will back thee

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

• Consort? What, dost thou make us minstrels?

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

• BENVOLIO:

• Part, fools!

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

• [Beats down their swords]

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which is an example of a monologue?

• Romeo and Juliet's first conversation at the party

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

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

• Juliet begging the nurse to give her news about Romeo

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

Which is an example of a soliloquy?

• Friar Lawrence scolding Romeo for crying so much

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

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

• Juliet telling Romeo that maybe they are moving too fast

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10. RL.11-12.10

A Shakespearean sonnet has:

• 12 lines, and is in iambic pentameter

• 12 lines, and an ABAB CDCD EFEF rhyme scheme

• 14 lines, and is in iambic pentameter

• 14 lines, and an ABBA CDDC EFG EFG rhyme scheme

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Oxymoron

• Theme

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CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

• Arrogant

• Bitter

• Exasperated

• Evasive

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4