| Alliteration1. Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words | 1. The sun for sorrow will not show his head2. Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both |
| Allusion1. A brief reference to a person, event, or place, real or fictitious | You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings, and soar above a common bound |
| Multiple Allusions | 1. We’ll have no Cupid hoodwinked with a scarf, bearing a Tartar’s pointed bow lath2. Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, toward Phoebus’ lodging. Such a wagoner as Phaeton would whip you to the west, and bringing in cloudy night immediately |
| Apostrophe 1. punctuation mark; 2. appeal to someone not present (a figure of speech) | No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve |
| Clipped words1. shortened forms of words | 1. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night2. Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear3. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them |
| Grammar | I will not budge for no man’s pleasure |
| Simile1. A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as” | 1. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books2. But love from love toward school with heavy looks |
| Metaphor1. A comparison of two unlike things without using the word like or as. | 1. But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?2. It is the east, and Juliet is in the sun |
| Meter (Iambic pentameter)1. generally regular pattern of stressed and non stressed syllables in poetry. | 1. For you and I are past our dancing days2. Come weep with me – past hope, past cure, past help |
| Oxymoron1. A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase. | 1. A madness most discreet2. A choking gall and a preserving sweet3. Why then, o brawling love! O loving hate!4. O anything, of nothing first create5. O heavy lightness! Serious vanity6. Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical7. Dove-feathered raven! Wolfish-ravening lamb |
| Personification1. A kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human | 1. Thy love did read by rote and could not spell.2. When well-appareled April on the heel3. Of limping winter treads |
| Proverb1. A popular saying that is meant to express something wise or true | Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast, A popular saying that is meant to express something wise or true |
| Puns1. A pun twists the meaning of words, often to create a humorous effect | Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man |
| Word order1. The specific order in which words are placed | 1. O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris2. From of the battlements of yonder tower3. Younger than she are happy mothers made |
Romeo and juliet
September 13, 2019