Romeo & Juliet Literary Term Notes Drain 5 th Six Weeks

Act 1, Scene 1 “If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.” Foreshadowing “…Aurora’s bed…” Allusion “…feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…” Oxymoron

Act 1, Scene 1 Continued “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…” Metaphor “With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit…” Allusion

Act 1, Scene 2 “…Earth-treading stars…” Metaphor “When well-apparelled April on the heel of limping Winter treads” Personification “”If you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray come …” Dramatic Irony “…crystal scales …” Metaphor

Act I, Scene 3 “Marry, that ‘marry’ is the very theme…” Pun “… why he’s a man of wax.” Metaphor “Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face …” Metaphor “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move …” Alliteration

Act 1 Scene 4 “…soles…soul…”Pun “…Cupid’s wings…” Allusion “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous…” Personification “…it pricks like thorn.” Simile

Act I Scene 4 (cont) “…it pricks like thorn.” Simile Mercutio does not believe in love/Romeo does Foil

Act 1, Scene 5 “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night…” Personification “ … as rich a jewel in an Ethiop’s ear …” Simile “Did my heart love till now? … For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Hyperbole “If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed” Foreshadowing

Act 2, Scene 1 “Young Abraham Cupid he that shot so true…“ Allusion “The ape is dead …” Metaphor “Blind is his love and best befits the dark.” Theme

Act 2, Scene 2 “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” Metaphor “O speak again, bright angel!” Metaphor “…silver-sweet sound…” Alliteration “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be …” Foreshadowing “Parting is such sweet sorrow…” Oxymoron

Act 2, Scene 3 “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night…” Personification “… and night’s dank dew to dry …” Alliteration “Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied And vice sometime’s by action dignified.” Theme “Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.” Theme

Act 2, Scene 4 “…courageous captain of compliments.” Alliteration “…Dido…Cleopatra…Helen and Hero…” Allusion“…curtsy…courteous…courtesy…”Pun “O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness!” Alliteration “…Prince of Cats…” Allusion

Act 2, Scene 5 “…Cupid’s wings.” Allusion “…swift in motion as a ball…” Simile Juliet talks about Nurse’s age Motif – Youth vs. Age

Act 2, Scene 6 “So smile the heavens upon this holy act” Personification “…love-devouring…” “…violent delights…” Oxymoron “These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder …” Foreshadowing “… and let rich music’s tongue Unfold the imagined happiness …” Personification

Act 3, Scene 1 pg. 790lines Verbal Irony pg. 791lines Dramatic Irony “…a grave man.”pg. 792line 99 pun

Act 3, Scene 2 pg. 796lines 1-31 Soliloquy “…I…”, “…eye…”, “…ay…” pg. 797lines Pun “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!” pg. 798lines Oxymoron

Act 3, Scene 3 “…For exile hath more terror in his look…” pg. 800line 13 Personification

Act 3, Scene 4 “I promise you, but for your company, I would have been abed an hour ago.” pg. 805lines 6-7 Iambic Pentameter

Act 3, Scene 5 “…and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.” Pg. 806lines 9-10 Personification “…Cynthia’s brow…”Pg. 807lines 20 Allusion “Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” Pg. 809lines “…I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate…” Pg. 812lines Verbal Irony

Act 4, Scene 1 “…Like death when he shuts up the day of life…” pg. 821line 101 Personification

Act 4, Scene 2 pg. 822lines 1-7 Comic Relief

Act 4, Scene 3 “Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breaths in…” pg. 826line Personification “…with some great kinsman’s bone as with a club dash out my desp’rate brains?” pg. 826lines Simile

Act 4, Scene 4 pg. 827Scene 4 Comic Relief

Act 4, Scene 5 “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” pg. 829line 27 Simile “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir…” pg. 829lines Personification pg. 830lines Dramatic Irony “”I say ‘silver sound’ because musicians sound for silver.” pg. 832lines Alliteration

Act 5, Scene 1 “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead…” Pg. 836line 6 Foreshadowing “O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” Pg. 837lines Personification “…and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired…” Pg. 837lines Simile