Abram : “Do you bite your thumb at us, sire?”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero Abram: “Do you bite your thumb at us, sire?” Sampson: [whispered to Gregory] “Is the law of our side if I say ‘Ay’?”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero 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. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Who misadverntured piteous overthrow Do with their death bury their parents’ strife.

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “I fear, too early for my mind misgives Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, Shall bitterly begin this fearful date with this night’s revels… By some vile forfeit of untimely death?

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “No less! Nay, bigger. Women grow by men.”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrows, She hath Dian’s wit…”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief.”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear— Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So show a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows.”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “Content thee, gentle Coz, let him alone, He bears him like a portly gentleman, And, to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-governed youth.”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “O single-soled jest, solely singular for the singleness”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “A sail, a sail!”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero I do protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. And so, good Capulet—which name I tender As dearly as mine own—be satisfied.

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “A thousand times good night.”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero “The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night”

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero No, ‘tis not so deep as a well Nor so wide as a church door, But ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow And you shall find me a grave man. . . A plague o’ both your houses!

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero . . .more courtship lives In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips. . . But Romeo may not—he is banished.

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not.

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave!

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero Oh, serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave! Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st, A damned saint, an honorable villain!

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero What do we call a play that describes the downfall of a good character which is caused by his own actions?

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero What do we call a noble character who we like but who causes his own downfall or death?

alliteration chorus hyperbole pun allusion comic relief foil simile iambic pentameter aside* dramatic irony metaphor soliloquy blank verse paradox tragedy characterization foreshadowing personification tragic hero Shakespeare wrote all of his plays in unrhymed iambic pentameter. What do we call this type of poetry?

Abram : “Do you bite your thumb at us, sire?”