H. English - Romeo & Juliet Act II & III

what kind of figurative language is this? “And old desire doth in his deathbed lie / And young affection gapes to be his heir.”

personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word”

classical allusion

what kind of figurative language is this? “To be consorted with the humorous night / Blind is his love and best befits the dark.”

light/dark motif

what kind of figurative language is this? “But soft, What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!”

metaphor

what kind of figurative language is this? “Arise fair sun, and kill the envious moon / Who is already sick and pale with grief”

personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “ “Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven. / Having some business, do entreat her eyes / To twinkle in their spheres till they return”

metaphor

what does juliet mean by “O Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

Oh, Romeo, Why do you have to be a Montague? Change your name! Say you are not a Montague. Or if you won’t do that, swear that you love me and I’ll no longer claim the name of Capulet.

what does juliet mean by “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”

What is a name? It doesn’t change who a person is; it is just a name.

what kind of figurative language is this? “My life were better ended by their hate / Than death prorogued wanting of thy love.”

foreshadowing

why does juliet tell romeo to not swear on the moon?

because the moon changes and isn’t reliable

what type of figurative language is this? “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love is as deep”

simile

what kind of figurative language is this? “Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud. / Else I would tear the cave where Echo lies / And make her airy tongue more hoarse than mine”

classical allusion

what kind of figurative language is this? “Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; / But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

simile

what kind of figurative language is this? “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night.”

personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light”

metaphor

what kind of figurative language is this? “And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels”

simile and personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “From day’s path and Titan’s burning wheels”

classical allusion

what kind of figurative language is this? “’tis not so deep as a well, not so wide as a church door, but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve.”

simile

what kind of figurative language is this? “Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.”

foreshadowing, it hints at mercutio’s death, pun, because grave can mean serious or dead

what kind of figurative language is this? “This day’s black fate on no days doth depend;/This but begins the woe others must end.”

light/dark motif and foreshadowing

what kind of figurative language is this? “O, I am fortune’s fool.”

personification

where is romeo banished? what will happen if he returns to verona?

to mantua, he will be killed if he returns

what is a soliloquy?

when a character speaks their thoughts aloud in a long speech

what kind of figurative language is this? “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds. / Toward Phoebus’ lodging! Such a wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the West”

classical allusion

what kind of figurative language is this? “Come, civil night,/Thou sober-suited matron, all in black”

personification and light/dark motif

what kind of figurative language is this? “come, Romeo, come; thou day in night”

light/dark motif

what kind of figurative language is this? “For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night / Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back”

light/dark motif

what kind of figurative language is this? “come, loving, black-browed night”

personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “Take him and cut him out in little stars, / And he will make the face of heaven so fine / That all the world will be in love with night / And pay no worship to the garish sun.”

extended metaphor and personfication

what kind of figurative language is this? “O, I have bought the mansion of a love,/But not possessed it; and though I am sold,/Not yet enjoyed.”

extended metaphor

what kind of figurative language is this? “And that bare vowel “I” shall poison more/Than the death-darting eye of a cockatrice.”

pun

what kind of figurative is this? “O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!/Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?/Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!”
what does juliet mean by this?

Juliet using oxymorons referring to Romeo

what kind of figurative language is this? “Was ever book containing such vile matter/So fairly bound?” who is this referring to?

extended metaphor comparing Romeo to a book

what kind of figurative language is this? “Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.”

personification

what does juliet give to the nurse to give to romeo?

a ring

what does romeo and juliet think about the banishment?

it’s worse than death

what kind of figurative language is this? “This may flies do, when I from this must fly.”

pun

what are the three reasons the friar gives romeo that he should be grateful?

that juliet’s alive, that he’s alive, and that he’s only banished instead of being executed

what kind of figurative language is this? “Parting is such sweet sorrow,”

oxymoron because "sweet" is the opposite of "sorrow", and it’s also alliteration bc of the "s" sound

what day does capulet set juliet and paris’s wedding day to be on?

thursday

what kind of figurative language is this? “. . . jocund day/Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops”

personification

what kind of figurative language is this? “More light and light—more dark and dark our woes!”

light/dark motif

what kind of figurative language is this? ‘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./Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookst pale.”

foreshadowing

what kind of figurative language is this? “O Fortune, Fortune! All men call thee fickle,/If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him/That is renowned for faith?”

personification and alliteration

what type of irony is juliet and her mother’s conversation about romeo?

dramatic and verbal irony

what kind of figurative language is this? “Shall give him such a dram/That he shall soon keep Tybalt company”

foreshadowing

what kind of figurative language is this? “Indeed I never shall be satisfied/With Romeo till I behold him—dead--/Is my poor heart so for a kinsman vexed.”

verbal and dramatic irony

what type of figurative language is this? “In one little body
Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind;
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs,
Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
Without a sudden calm, will overset
Thy tempest-tossèd body.” who is this referring to?

extended metaphor, personification, and its talking about juliet

what kind of figurative language is this? “I would the fool were married to her grave.”

foreshadowing

what kind of figurative language is this? “Delay this marriage for a month, a week;/Or if you do not, make the bridal bed/In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.”

foreshadowing

what kind of figurative language is this? “Well, thou has comforted me marvelous much.”

verbal irony