Romeo and Juliet (Figurative Language) – Flashcards
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Metaphor
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"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."
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Pun
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"Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
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Simile
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"My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep."
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Personification
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"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir."
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Alliteration
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"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes..."
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Simile
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"Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
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Personification and Metaphor
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"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon..."
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Oxymoron
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"O brawling love! O loving hate!"
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Foreshadowing
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"I fear, too early; for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars"
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Hyperbole
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"A lack, their lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!"
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Metaphor
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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs..."
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Allusion
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"Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow..."
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Simile
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"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of light as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's"
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Simile
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"Begot of nothing, but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air"
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Metaphor
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"Think thy swan a cow"
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Metaphor
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"My lips, two blushing pilgrims stand"
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Personification
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Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my Breast
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Personification
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These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows
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Personification
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Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she
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Hyperbole
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I warrant, An I should live a thousand years
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Pun
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You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead
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Pun
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"That dreamers often lie."
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Pun
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...we'll not carry coals... No for them we should be colliers ... an we be in choler...collar
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Foreshadowing
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If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed
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metaphor
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"Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives"
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personification
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Love is blind
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Personification
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My sadness sits heavy in my chest
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Oxymoron
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"She speaks yet she says nothing.
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Simile
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"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp."
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Personification
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"Two of the fairest stars....do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres.
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Oxymoron
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"O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!"
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Oxymoron
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"Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"
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Allusion
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"She hath Dian's wit..."
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Foreshadowing
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"I fear, too early; for my mind misgives some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, shall bitterly begin his fearful date with these night's evels and expire the term.
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Personification
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"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief..."
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Simile
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"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."
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Allusion
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"And therefore have I little talked of love; for Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
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Personification
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"Death is my son-n-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded. I will die And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's."
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Personification
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"Like death when he shuts up the day of life; Each part, deprived of supple government"
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Hyperbole
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"And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks but Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence."
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Oxymoron
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"Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st"
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Allusion
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Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, towards Phoebus' lodging!"
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Simile
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"O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as is a winged messenger from heaven..."
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Oxymoron, Simile and Personification
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"These violent delights have violent end and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume."
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Allusion
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A reference to a work of literature, an actual even, a person, a place, or known information that the writer or speaker expects his/her audience to recognize.
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Aside
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A character briefly speaks his or her thoughts (1 or 2 lines) to the audience, and the audience is to realize that the character is unheard by the other characters on stage.
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Dialogue
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A conversation between two or more characters.
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Dramatic Irony
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When there is contradiction between what the characters of the play know, and what the audience knows.
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Foil Character
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One character who contrasts sharply with another character.
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Foreshadowing
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The use of hints or clues in a passage to suggest action that is to come later in the story.
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Hyperbole
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An obvious exaggeration or overstatement used for effect or to make a point.
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Metaphor
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A comparison made between two unlike things.
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Monologue
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A long speech presented by a single character expressing their thoughts and feelings to other characters.
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Oxymoron
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A figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory terms appear side by side for effect.
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Personification
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An author gives human characteristics to nonhuman things (animals, natural forces, objects, ideas, etc.).
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Pun
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The use of a word in such a way as to suggest two or more of its meanings or the meaning of another word similar in sound.
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Simile
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A comparison made between two unlike things using the words like or as.
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Situational Irony
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A discrepancy between what is expected to happen, and what actually occurs.
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Soliloquy
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A character is alone on stage speaking his or her thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience.
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Tragic Flaw
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The weakness in the hero/heroine that leads to his/her downfall.
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Verbal Irony
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The intended meaning of a statement differs from the meaning that the words appear to express.
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Queen Elizabeth I
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Ruler of England when Shakepeare's plays were first performed.
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Globe
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Shakespeare's theater had this name.
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Groundlings
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The people who stood in the center of the theater were called this.
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Iambic Pentameter
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The rhythm of most of Shakepeare's plays.
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Sonnet
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14 lined poem in iambic pentameter that has an ABABCDCDEFEFGG rhyme scheme.
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Sonnet
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The prologue of the play is in this form.
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True
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Actors were only male during Shakespeare's Time.
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False
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People were not allowed to have food at the theater.
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False
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Shakespeare's theater was well known for its elaborate sceneries.
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False
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Everyone at the theater would get wet if it rained during a play.
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True
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Shakespeare was an actor and writer for Lord Chamberlain's Men.
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Shakespeare died on his birthday.
