R&J: figurative language
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Use the “Handbook of Literary Terms” on pages 1133 – 1145 of your textbook to
paraphrase the definitions of simile, metaphor, personification and pun. Then
paraphrase the given speech.
simile
Romeo: Love goes toward love as
schoolboys/from their books;/But love
from love, toward school/with heavy
looks. II.2. 157-158.
Lord Capulet: Death lies on her like
an untimely frost/Upon the sweetest
flower of all the field. IV.5.28-29.
metaphor
Romeo: But soft! What light through
yonder window breaks?/
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!
II.2. 2-3.
Juliet: This bud of love, by summer’s
ripening breath,/May prove a
beauteous flower when next we meet.
II.2.121-122.
R&J: figurative language
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personification
Capulet: When well-appareled April
on the heel/Of limping winter treads.
I.2. 27-28.
Chorus: Now old desire doth in his
deathbed lie,/And young affection
gapes to be his heir. II. Prologue. 1-2.
pun
Mercutio: Ask for me tomorrow, and
you shall/find me a grave man.
III.1.94-95.
Romeo: You have dancing shoes/With
nimble soles; I have a soul of lead/So
stakes me to the ground I cannot
move. I.4.14-16.
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