Literary
Examples
Literary
Examples
Who Said It? Who Said It?
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“But soft! What light through
yonder window breaks?/It is the
east, and Juliet is the sun.”
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metaphor
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“Come, gentle night, come loving, blackbrow’d night.”
Category 1: $200: A
Personification
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“Beautiful tyrant!”
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oxymoron
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“Disobedient wretch!”
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Epithet
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“Shall I hear more, or shall I
speak at this?” (Romeo)
Category 1: $500: A
aside
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“love is a smoke made with the
fume of sighs”
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metaphor
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“Ask for me tomorrow and you
shall find me a grave man,”
Category 2: $200: A
pun
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“Love goes toward love as
school boys from their books.”
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simile
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“From forth day’s path and
Titan’s fiery wheels.”
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allusion
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“Two of the fairest stars in all
the heaven,/having some
business, do entreat her eyes/to
twinkle in their spheres till they
return”
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metaphor and personification
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The definition of foil
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Two characters that are opposite
to show contrast
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Lady Capulet
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The nurse
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Tybalt
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Benvolio
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Romeo
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Mercutio
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Paris
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Romeo
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“At this same feast of Capulet’s/Sups the
fair Rosaline whom thou so lov’st;/With
all the admired beauties of Verona./Go
thither; and, with unattainted
eye,/Compare her face with some that I
shall show,/And I will make thee think
thy swan a crow.”
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Benvolio
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“O, then, I see Queen Mab hath
been with you … I talk of
dreams”
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Mercutio
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“Deny thy father and refuse thy
name;”
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Juliet
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“O, I am fortune’s fool!”
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Romeo
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“Two star-cross’d lovers take
their lives.”
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Chorus
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“A plague on both your
houses!”
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Mercutio
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“He jests at scars that never felt
a wound”
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Romeo
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“My grave is like to be my
wedding bed.”
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Juliet
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“Is death mistermed. Calling
death “banishment,”
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Romeo
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“For never was there a story of
more woe, than that of Juliet and
her Romeo”
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Prince Escalus
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