| Soliloquy | “Give me my Romeo, and when I shall die,/ Take him and cut him out on little stars,/ And he will make the face of heaven so fine/ That all the world will be in love with night,/ And pay no worship to the garish sun.” (3.2.21-25) |
| Personification | “Come, gentle Night, come, loving, black-browed Night,” (3.2.17) |
| Antithesis | “O serpent heart hid with a flow’ring face!” ( 3.2.77) |
| Oxymoron | “A damned saint, an honorable villain!” (3.2.79) |
| Allusion | “Than the death-darting eye of a cockatrice.” ( 3.2.47) |
| Aside | “[Aside] Villain and he be many miles asunder-/ God pardon him, I do with all my heart:” (3.5.81-82) |
| Monologue | An extended, uninterrupted speech by a singe person. There can be other people too. Example: FL monologue 2.3 |
| Anaphora | “These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old.” (3.2.89) |
| Apostrophe | “O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle;” (3.5.60) |
| Pun | “Flies may do this, but I from this must fly;” (3.3.41) |
| Similie | “No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door,” (3.1.88) |
| Dramatic Irony | “Why how now, Juliet?””Madam, I am not well.” |
Romeo and Juliet Acts 3-5: Name That Literary Device/Dramatic Term!!!
November 30, 2019