| The Chorus in the prologue is an example of ____. | sonnet |
| “feather of lead” | oxymoron |
| “bright smoke” | oxymoron |
| “cold fire” | oxymoron |
| “sick health” | oxymoron |
| “Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face…” | conceit |
| “With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead” | pun |
| “I fear too early, for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars” | foreshadowing |
| “If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, this gentle sin this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss…” | sonnet |
| “But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and juliet is the Sun…” | soliloquy |
| “My love as deep. The more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite.” | paradox |
| “Hist, Romeo, hist!” | comic relief |
| “‘Tis twenty year till then” | hyperbole |
| “sweet sorrow” | oxymoron/ alliteration |
| “It beats as if it would fall in twenty pieces.” | hyperbole |
| “These violent delights have violent ends” | foreshadowing |
| “My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words” | personification |
| “You shall find me a grave man” | foreshadowing |
| “flow’ring face” | alliteration |
| “beautiful tyrant” | oxymoron |
| “wolvish-ravening lamb” | oxymoron |
| “O, that deceit should dwell / In such a gorgeous palace!” | metaphor |
| “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear” | simile |
| “O, much I fear some ill unthrifty thing” | foreshadowing |
| “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!…” | soliloquy |
| “My grave is likely to be my wedding bed” | foreshadowing |
| ‘love-devouring death” | personification |
| “Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb” | foreshadowing |
| “bridal bed” | alliteration |
| “Death lies on her like an untimely frost” | personification/simile |
| “Hath death lain with thy wife” | personification |
| “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight” | foreshadowing |
| “womb of death” | oxymoron |
| “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds, / Towards Phoebus’ lodging…” | soliloquy |
| The use of “Pheobus” in Act 3 Scene 2 | allusion |
Romeo and Juliet Literary Devices
August 25, 2019