Literary Devices in Romeo and Juliet
PUN:
Play on the ___________________ of a word or on two words that
_______________________________________________________________.
EXAMPLE:
ASIDE:
Words that are spoken by a character in a play to ____________________ or
________________________________ but that are not supposed to be
_______________________________________________________________.
IAMBIC PENTAMETER:
Line of poetry that contains ____ stressed and ____ unstressed ________________.
Line has a total of __________________. *The ____________ and
__________________________ Shakespearean characters speak in iambic pentameter.
EXAMPLE: (underline the stressed syllables)
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
ALLITERATION:
Repetition of the _______________or _________________ _______________
sounds usually at the ___________________ of words that are __________________
in a poem.
EXAMPLES:
ALLUSION:
________________ to something ________________. Many of Shakespeare’s
allusions will be to _____________________.
OXYMORON:
A figure of speech that combines __________________ (or ________________)
terms.
EXAMPLES:
MONOLOGUE
A long _______________ by one character to
_______________________________________________ on stage
EXAMPLES:
SOLILOQUY
A speech by a character, _____________________, speaking to ____________,
_________________, or the __________________.
In a play, you are ______________________________________________ of the
characters so soliloquies allow that _______________________________________.
EXAMPLES:
PERSONIFICATION
Imagery that gives __________________ objects _________________ feelings and
attributes.
Personification adds to ________________________ because it endows objects or
abstractions with ________________, enabling them to ____________, __________,
and _________________ like a ____________________.
EXAMPLE:
VERSE:
A _____________________
Shakespeare’s audience _____________________ actors to speak
________________________.
The poetic style would be suitable for ______________, great affairs of
_______________________, _______________________, and moments of
________________________ or ___________________________.
Notice that Shakespeare’s verse is not _____________________________.
PROSE:
___________________________________ that follows the natural flow of
____________________.
Prose would be used for the lines said by ______________________________
such as __________________, ___________________, or ____________.
Prose is also used to express ____________________ or __________________.
Notice all the places prose is used within the play.
Examples:
FOILS:
Characters whose personalities, wants, desires, etc. __________________________.
Watch for all the different _________________________ within Romeo and Juliet.
Examples:
HYPERBOLE:
-Extravagant and obvious ___________________________.
-In Shakespeare’s time, many poets and dramatists went ___________________, this
added to the _________________________.