example of a pun 1 | Sampson: My naked weapon is out: quarrel, I will back thee. (I.1.32) |
example of an allusion | Romeo alludes to the mythological goddess Diana when he describes Rosaline’s intelligence. “She hath Dian’s wit….” (1.1.202) |
example of an oxymoron | “O brawling love! O brawling hate, O loving hate…” (1.1.172-171) |
example of a metaphor | “I will make thee think thy swan a crow” (1.2.89) Benvolio tells Romeo if he looks at other beautiful girls, Rosaline will seem ugly. |
example of dramatic irony 1 | Clown: “My master is the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house of Montages I pray come and crush a cup of wine” (I.1.81-83).(the audience knows but the servant doesn’t) |
example of an extended metaphor | “Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face, And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen” (1.3.82-83). Lady Capulet tells her daughter Juliet to seriously consider marrying Paris, whom she compares to a book. |
example of a pun 2 | Romeo: “you have dancing shoes/with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead….” (1.4.15-16) Romeo explains to Mercutio that he is too sad to dance. |
example of foreshadowing | “I fear…some consequence, yet hanging in the stars/shall bitterlybegin his fearful date with this night’s revels….(ending in) ultimately death” (1.4.106-111) This is Romeo who thinks someone will die. |
example of soliloquy 1 | “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun” (2.2.1-5). This soliloquy speaks to the beauty of Juliet and his yet unrequited love for her. |
example of soliloquy 2 | Romeo: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright” (I.5.42-52). She was so beautiful that she made the torches around the hall appear to grow dim |
example of aside | Romeo: “Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?” (2.2.36). Juliet is unaware someone is out on balcony when romeo reveals his anxiety on love. |
example of simile 1 | Romeo says that love “pricks like thorn”(2.4.26). |
example of simile 2 | Romeo says that lover’s tongues are “like softest music to attending ears” (2.2.165) |
example of tragic hero | Romeo is willing to sacrifice his life in order to be with Juliet. |
example of tragic flaw | Romeo falls in love easily and believes in fate. |
example of dramatic irony 2 | Nurse: “Lady, lady, lady!—Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!” (4.5.14-17). Juliet is found dead in her bed – they all think that she is dead/ she is not dead. |
Dramatic irony 3 | Nurse: “Alack the day! He’s gone, he’s killed, he’s dead!” (3.2.37-39). Nurse weeps (for Tybalt), but at first she never openly states who she is weeping for. Juliet misinterprets her and thinks that Romeo has been killed. (its actually Tybalt). |
Pathos | Chorus: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” Prologue line 6. |
Metaphor | “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun” (2.1.3) |
Simile | “As glorious to this night, being o’er my head / As is a winged messenger of heaven” (2.2.27-28) |
Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Identifying Literary Devices
July 21, 2019