setting | 13th-14th century Verona |
situation | star-crossed lovers from enemy families that get married and end up dying |
quest | happily ever after |
archetypes | star-crossed lovers; nurse figure |
protagonist | Romeo and Juliet |
antagonist | Tybalt; the feud; the feuding families; Paris |
foreshadowing | Romeo and Juliet’s deaths |
dramatic irony | We know that Romeo and Juliet are going to die as soon as the play starts |
soliloquy | Act 4 Scene 3 (before Juliet drinks the potion) |
alliteration | from forth the fatal loins of these two foes(Prologue) |
allusion | Mercutio when he is comparing Romeo to Petrarch |
sonnet | Prologue |
couplet | Two households, both alike in dignity(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. |
simile | fleckled darkness like a drunkard |
metaphor | it is the east and Juliet is the sun |
personification | gray-eyed dawn; night is a sober suited matron |
tone | emo Romeo—>manly Romeo |
narrative structure | 5 acts—>entire book |
parallelism | Tybalt and Mercutio |
plot | The Capulets and The Montagues hate each other but then their children fall in love and secretly get married. Romeo is banished from Verona and Juliet fakes her death to be with him again. They both end up dying. |
conflict | internal:Juliet freaking out before she drinks the potionexternal:Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet even though he knows the outcome may be bad for him |
Romeo and Juliet Literary Elements
July 24, 2019