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and Juliet
Includes PMS:
Personification
Metaphor
Simile…and Analogy:
1a. Figurative Language:
Personification
Definition: To assign human qualities
to something that isn’t human
Example:
“And to’ t they go
like lightning” (III, i, 166)
1d. Figurative Language:
Analogy
An EXTENDED comparison
showing the similarities
between two things.
Example:
“Romeo! Humors! Madman!
Passion! Lover! (II.i.7)
Meter
Definition: The pattern of syllables in
a poem.
Notes:
Iambic Pentameter is one form of meter.
An iamb’s emphasis is
unstressed, stressed
Example:
“Two house 1
holds both 2
a like 3
in dig 4
ni ty…” 5
Repetition
The return of a word,
phrase, stanza form, or
effect in any form of
literature.
Example: “Would
through the airy region
stream so bright /
That birds would sing
and think it were not
night.” (II, ii, 21-22)
Dialogue
Definition: A conversation between two or more
people
Example:
Lady Capulet: “Speak
briefly, can you like
Of Paris’s love?”
Example: “Enough
of this, I pray thee
hold thy peace.” –Lady
Capulet, I, iii, 49
Foreshadowing
Definition:
The use of clues or hints
To suggest what action
is to come.
Example:
Romeo: “By some vile
forfeit of the untimely
death…” (I, v, 111)
Imagery
Language that appeals
to any sense (sight, hearing,
taste, touch, or smell) or
any combination of these.
Examples:
“Parting is such sweet sorrow.”
“Oh loving hate”