Name __________________________ Total / 40 Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet (A) Read the quotations below and determine which rhetorical device is being used. The act and scene number follows each quotation. (15 marks) 1. Madam, an hour before the worshipp’d son. (Act I, scene i) 2. A bump as big as a young cock’rel’s stone. (Act I, scene iii) 3. Love is like a great natural that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. (Act II, scene iv) 4. Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! (Act III, scene ii) 5. Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar. (Act I, scene i) 6. It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (Act II, scene ii) 7. Dove-feather’d raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! (Act III, scene ii) 8. Deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace. (Act III, scene ii) 9. 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. (Act III, scene v) 10. And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels. (Act II, scene iii) 11. Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light. (Act II, scene iii) 12. From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels. (Act II, scene iii) 13. Book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? (Act III, scene ii) 14. A damned saint, an honourable villain! (Act III, scene ii) 15. Despised substance of divinest show! (Act III, scene ii) 16. Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir. (Act IV, scene v) 17. 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. (Act II, scene ii) 18. Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move. (Act I, scene iv) 19. The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp. (Act II, scene ii) 20. The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night. (Act II, scene iii) 21. How silver sweet sound lover’s tongues by night, / Like softest music to attending ears. (Act II, scene ii) 22. True, I talk of dreams, which are the children of an idle brain. (Act I, scene iv) 23. O God, I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. (Act III, scene v) 24. With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit. (Act I, scene i) 25. Ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. (Act III, scene i) 26. The time and my intents are savage wild, / More fierce and inexorable far / Than empty tigers or the roaring sea. (Act V, scene iii) 27. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, / Towards Phoebus' lodging: such a wagoner / As Phaethon would whip you to the west (Act III, scene ii) 28. Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. (Act IV, scene v) 29. Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! (Act I, scene v) 30. But I am / Sent to find those persons whose names are here / Writ, and can never find what names the writing / Person hath here writ. (Act I, scene ii) (B) Closely examine five (5) quotations and analyse the rhetorical device in depth by filling in the table provided. Use may use a maximum of three (3) quotations from the examples provided. You must find at least two (2) examples in the text on your own. (25 marks) 1. Explain the meaning of the line – include the name of the device being used. (Simile/Metaphor: What is being compared? How?) 2. Explain the significance of the device to the play. (Things to Consider: Why is it being used? Why is it significant to the plot, characters or themes of the story? What does the quotation reveal/symbolize? Does it make you visualize aspects of the text? Does it show Shakespeare’s sense of humour? What does the quotation suggest about aspects of Elizabethan beliefs/ culture?) Quotation Include: Act, Scene, and line number. Explain what the quotations means. Explain the significance of the quotation to the play. (Themes, Characters, Plot)