| Soliloquy | speech given by a character to express thoughts/emotions(heard by audience)Ex-Romeo talking to Juliet in Act 2 scene 2″But soft! What…touch that cheek.” |
| Monalogue | speech given by a character and heard by the other surrounding charactersEx- Mercutio giving a rant about Queen Moab”O then I see Queen Moab…This is she.”(Shakespeare, 54-94) |
| Metaphor | comparison of two things without using like or asEx- “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet”-(Monalogue Handout)Ex- “Juliet is the sun…” -(Soliloquy Handout) |
| Simile | comparison of two things using like or asEx- “Brightness of her cheek…as daylight doth as a lamp.”(Romeo’s soliloquy)Ex- “My bounts is as boundless as the sea.”(Shankespeare, 133) |
| Analogy | a comparison of two thingsEx- “Love is a smoke made of sighs; being purged…”(Shakespeare, 185) |
| Personification | giving inhumane objects human traitsEx- “…an hour before the worshiped sun peered forth the Golden window of the east…”(Shakespeare, 115) |
| Foreshadowing | clues and hints in text that help show what might happen laterEx- “these violent delights have violent ends”(Shakespeare, 9, 10) |
| Pun | play on the multiple meaning of wordsEx- Mercutio says he’ll be a grave man(line 93-95) |
| Verbal Irony | when someone says the opposite of what it is intendedEx- When Romeo says he loves Tybalt but, he only loves him because Tybalt is related to Juliet..(line 65-69) |
| Dramatic Irony | when audience knows something a character or other characters do not knowEx- the audience and Romeo only know that Romeo is married to Juliet in Act III scene I |
Literary Devices for Romeo and Juliet
December 10, 2019