1. Dramatic Devices For each definition or example, identify the dramatic device.

2. Hints or clues of events to occur later in the plot
Answer: Foreshadowing

3. “Juliet is the sun! Answer: Metaphor

4. A contradiction that is actually true Answer: Paradox

5. Comment made to audience that other characters on stage CANNOT hear
Comment made to audience that other characters on stage CANNOT hear. Answer: Aside

6. Romeo’s speech in the tomb or Juliet’s speech alone in her room Answer: soliloquy

7. “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”
(playing on the double meaning of grave)
Answer: Pun

8. “My love sprung from my only hate!” Answer: Paradox

9. “She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow. She hath Diana’s wit.”
Answer: Allusion

10. “These violent delights have violent ends”
Answer: Foreshadowing

11. Speech given alone on stage, reveals inner thoughts Answer: Soliloquy

12. Giving human qualities to inanimate things
Answer: Personification

13. Juliet says to Romeo:
“O God! I have an ill-divining soul.
Methinks I see thee, now thou art below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.”
Answer: Foreshadowing

14. Lord Capulet cries, “Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir
Lord Capulet cries, “Death is my son-in-law! Death is my heir!” Answer: Personification

15. “I little talked of love; For Venus smiles not in a house of tears
“I little talked of love; For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.” Answer: Allusion

16. When the audience knows something that a character does not know
When the audience knows something that a character does not know. Answer: Dramatic irony

17. “Cold fire, sick health… honorable villain, damned saint…” Answer: Oxymoron

18. The Capulet servants preparing for the wedding feast (after Juliet’s desperate soliloquy before she takes the potion) Answer: Comic Relief

19. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost.”
Answer: Simile

20. 14 line poem with rhyme scheme of abab
cdcd
efef gg
Answer: Sonnet

21. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea.”
Answer: Simile
Referring to a famous person or event from history, mythology, or etc.
Answer: Allusion

22. The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night…
Answer: Personification
[morning can not smile like a person nor can night frown]

23. “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,” Answer: Alliteration Dogs Don’t Dance for their Dinner

24. Vocabulary on PLAN Passage
Despair – to lose all hope or confidence
Desperation – the condition of being desperate; h
Defiance- bold resistance to authority; disobedience
Tolerance – respect for others whose opinions differ from one’s own

25. Vocabulary on PLAN Passage
Dignity- Being worthy of respect.
Despise-To hate.
 optimism- a tendency to look on the more favorable side.