"Romeo and Juliet" Figurative Language B

What is a play that typically ends with a happy resolution, often involving a marriage?

• Tragedy

• Drama

• Comedy

• Melodrama

the central character of a play, film, etc., depicted as a noble figure who experiences a tragic downfall.

• tragic hero

• noble villain

• comic relief

• supporting character

What is a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art?

• Allusion

• Illusion

• Delusion

• Collusion

is the contrast between what the characters believe is going to happen and what really does happen.

• Dramatic Irony

• Situational Irony

• Verbal Irony

• Cosmic Irony

What is a repeated group of four lines called?

• Quatrain

• Couplet

• Sestet

• Octave

Romeo: Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health (Act I, scene 1). How So? The oxymorons show contradictions in love: Romeo “loves” Rosaline but she does not feel the same. What literary device is being used in this passage?

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

• Simile

• Alliteration

the main idea of a piece of literature. Example: One theme of Romeo and Juliet might be that “haste makes waste.” In other words, hurrying too much often leads to problems

• Theme

• Plot

• Character

• Setting

What is a long speech given by a character to another character?

• Dialogue

• Monologue

• Soliloquy

• Aside

is created when the audience knows something that one or more of the characters in the story do not. This usually creates anticipation in the audience, as they do not know if or when the character is going to discover when they already know.

• Dramatic irony

• Situational irony

• Verbal irony

• Narrative irony

What is a figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Hyperbole