Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language

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

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CCSS.L.9-10.5A

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

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CCSS.L.6.5A

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

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CCSS.RL.9-10.5

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

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

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

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

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.7

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

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

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

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.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night,

like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Rhyme

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CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.2.6

What figurative language device is used in the quote "The moon is already sick and pale with grief because you, Juliet, her maid, are more beautiful than she."?

• Simile

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor

• Personification

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D