| Allusion | “Gallop apace, you fiery footed steeds,/Towards Phoebus’ lodging; such a waggoner/As Phaeton would whip you to the west,” Juliet |
| Repetition | “A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho!”Mercutio |
| Pun | “Marry, that marry is the very theme/I came to talk of. Tell me, daughter Juliet/How stands your disposition to be married.” Lady Capulet |
| Pun | “Ask for me tomorrow and you will find me a grave man.” Mercutio |
| Repetition | “Ah, well-a-day! He’s dead., he’s dead, he’s dead…Alack the day! He’s gone he’s killed, he’s dead!” Nurse |
| Pun | “You have dancing shoes/With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground so I can’t move.”Romeo |
| Oxymoron | “Oh heavy lightness! …Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!” Romeo. |
| Hyperbole | “A thousand times good-night!” Juliet |
| Hyperbole | “I will not fail; ’tis twenty year till then.” Juliet |
| Metaphor | “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?/It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” Romeo |
| Malapropism | “If you be he, sir, I desire some confidence with you.” Nurse |
| Personification | “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,Who is already sick and pale with grief…”Romeo |
| Metaphor | “Oh that I were a glove upon that hand, /That I might touch that cheek!” Romeo |
| Metaphor | “Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives.” Mercutio |
| Hyperbole | “No ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve.” Mercutio Says his stab wound is not that bad. |
| Simile | “Without is roe, like a dead herring; O flesh, flesh, how art though fishified.” Mercutio |
| Simile | “Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,/As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” |
| Foil | Benvolio’s character is a foil to Tybalt’s character. |
| Soliloquy | “Oh Romeo, Romeo Wherefore art though Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse they name.”This starts Juliet’s speech when she thinks that she is alone. |
| Prologue | This is the sonnet that begins the play and foretells what will happen. |
| Sonnet | The prologue that begins the play is in this format. |
| Dramatic Irony | When the audience knows that Juliet is just asleep, but no other characters beside the Friar know. |
| Foreshadowing | “Please Mercutio, let’s go. It’s hot, the Capulet are around, and if we meet them, there’ll be a fight.” Benvolio |
| Oxymoron | “Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish ravening lamb!”Juliet |
| Foreshadowing | “O God, I have an ill-divinig soul! Me thinks I see thee, now thou art below, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” Juliet |
| Alliteration | “When the sun sets, the earth doth drizzle dew;”Lord Capulet “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.” Romeo |
Romeo and Juliet Elements/Devices Examples
November 14, 2019