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Romeo & Juliet Literary Term Notes

Romeo & Juliet Literary Term Notes. Chuckran/Janisch 5 th Six Weeks. Act 1, Scene 1. “…colliers…choler…collar…” pg. 736 lines 2-3 Pun “…Aurora’s bed…” pg. 740 line 137 Allusion pg. 740 lines 137-141 Imagery “Is the day so young?” pg. 741 line 162 Personification.

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Romeo & Juliet Literary Term Notes

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  1. Romeo & Juliet Literary Term Notes Chuckran/Janisch 5th Six Weeks

  2. Act 1, Scene 1 “…colliers…choler…collar…” pg. 736 lines 2-3 Pun “…Aurora’s bed…” pg. 740 line 137 Allusion pg. 740 lines 137-141 Imagery “Is the day so young?” pg. 741 line 162 Personification

  3. Act 1, Scene 1 Continued “…feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…” pg. 742 lines 181-182 Oxymoron “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…” pg. 743 line 191 Metaphor “With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit…” pg. 743 line 210 Allusion “Well, in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit” pg. 743 lines 209-212 Couplet

  4. Act 1, Scenes 2-3 “…Earth-treading stars…” pg. 745 Line 25 Metaphor pg. 745 Lines 38-45. Irony pg. 745 Lines 38-45 Comic Relief “…Ay…Ay…I…” pg. 750 Lines 57-58 Pun

  5. Act 1 Scene 4 “…soles…soul…” pg. 752 line 15 Pun “…Cupid’s wings…” pg. 752 line 17 Allusion “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boist’rous, and it pricks like thorn.” pg. 752 lines 25-26 Personification “…it pricks like thorn.” pg. 752 line 26 Simile pg. 755 lines 106-113 Foreshadowing

  6. Act 1, Scene 5 “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night…” pg. 757 lines 46-47 Personification “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night” pg. 757 lines 46-55 Couplet “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” pg. 757 line 55 Iambic Pentameter (refer to pg. 740) “My lips, two blushing pilgrims…” pg. 758 line 97 Metaphor

  7. Act 2, Scene 1 “…Venus…” pg. 765 line 11 Allusion pg. 765 lines 17-21 Irony

  8. Act 2, Scene 2 “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun!” pg. 766 line 3 Metaphor “I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes…” pg. 769 line75 Personification “…Echo…” pg. 772 line 162 Allusion “…silver-sweet sound…” pg. 772 line 166 Alliteration “Parting is such sweet sorrow…” pg. 773 line 185 Oxymoron “Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest!” pg. 773 lines 187-188 Couplet

  9. Act 2, Scene 3 “The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night…” pg.774 line 1 Personification pg.774 lines 1-30 Couplets pg.774 lines 6-30 Foreshadowing

  10. Act 2, Scene 4 “…courageous captain of compliments.” pg. 777 lines 19-20 Alliteration “…Dido…Cleopatra…Helen and Hero…” pg. 778 line 42 Allusion “…curtsy…courteous…courtesy…” pg. 778 lines 56-59 Pun “O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness!” pg. 778 lines 67-68 Alliteration

  11. Act 2, Scene 5 “…Cupid’s wings.” pg. 782 line 8 Allusion “…swift in motion as a ball…” pg. 782 line 13 Simile “But old folks, many feign as they were dead- Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.” pg. 782 lines 18-19 Couplet Iambic Pentameter Simile

  12. Act 2, Scene 6 “So smile the heavens upon this holy act” Pg. 785 line 1 personification “…love-devouring…” “…violent delights…” Pg. 785 lines 7 & 9 Oxymoron “Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” pg. 785 line 14 couplet

  13. Act 3, Scene 1 pg. 790 lines 16-31 Verbal Irony pg. 791 lines 69-73 Dramatic Irony “…a grave man.” pg. 792 line 99 pun

  14. Act 3, Scene 2 pg. 796 lines 1-31 Soliloquy “…I…”, “…eye…”, “…ay…” pg. 797 lines 45-50 Pun “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!” pg. 798 lines 75-76 Oxymoron

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

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

  17. Act 3, Scene 5 “…and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.” Pg. 806 lines 9-10 Personification “…Cynthia’s brow…” Pg. 807 lines 20 Allusion “Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.” Pg. 809 lines 55-56 “…I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate…” Pg. 812 lines 122-123 Verbal Irony

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

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

  20. Act 4, Scene 3 “Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, to whose foul mouth no healthsome air breaths in…” pg. 826 line 33-34 Personification “…with some great kinsman’s bone as with a club dash out my desp’rate brains?” pg. 826 lines 53-54 Simile

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

  22. Act 4, Scene 5 “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” pg. 829 line 27 Simile “Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir…” pg. 829 lines 38-39 Personification pg. 830 lines 65-83 Dramatic Irony “”I say ‘silver sound’ because musicians sound for silver.” pg. 832 lines 133-134 Alliteration

  23. Act 5, Scene 1 “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead…” Pg. 836 line 6 Foreshadowing “O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” Pg. 837 lines 35-36 Personification “…and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired…” Pg. 837 lines 63-64 Simile

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