Romeo and Juliet – Terminology Application
Answer the following questions. Point form is sufficient.
1.
At the beginning of 3.2, we see Juliet alone on stage where she speaks her innermost
thoughts regarding the wait for her husband [6]:
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
Juliet: Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds,
Towards Phoebus' lodging; such a waggoner
As Phaethon would whip you to the west,
And bring in cloudy night immediately.
Spread thy close curtain, love-performing night,
That runaways' eyes may wink: and, Romeo,
Leap to these arms, untalk'd of and unseen.
Lovers can see to do their amorous rites,
By their own beauties; or, if love be blind,
It best agrees with night. Come, civil night,
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black,
And learn me how to lose a winning match,
Play'd for a pair of stainless maidenhoods:
Hood my unmann'd blood, bating in my cheeks,
With thy black mantle; till strange love grown bold,
Think true love acted simple modesty.
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night,
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
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.
0, I have bought the mansion of a love,
But not possess'd it, and, though I am sold,
Not yet enjoy'd. So tedious is this day
(g)
As is the night before some festival
To an impatient child that hath new robes
And may not wear them. 0, here comes my nurse,
And she brings news; and every tongue that speaks
But Romeo’s name speaks heavenly eloquence.
a) What is the name of this type of speech?
b) What figure of speech is being used in the line indicated by a (b) in the above speech?
c) What figure of speech is being used in the line indicated by a (c) in the above speech?
Hint: it is NOT personification – check out the underlined part!
d) What figure of speech is being used in the line indicated by a (d) in the above speech?
e) What figure of speech is being used in the line indicated by an (e) in the above speech?
f)
What figure of speech is being used in the lines indicated by an (f) in the above speech?
g) What figure of speech is being used in the lines indicated by an (g) in the above speech?
2.
When the nurse brings Juliet the news of the fight that occurred in 3.1, Juliet at first
believes that the Nurse is wailing because Romeo is dead. This heightens the feelings
for the audience because we know the truth. What narrative technique is being
employed here? [1]
3.
Underline and identify the figure of speech being used in the following lines. [1]
God save the mark! – here on his manly breast.
A piteous corse, a bloody piteous corse!
Pale, pale as ashes, all bedaub’d in blood,
All in gore blood. (3.2.54-57)
4.
Underline and identify the figure of speech being used in the following lines. [1]
It was the nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear;
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate-tree. (3.5.2-4)
5.
What figure of speech is being used in the following lines? [1]
I’ll say yon grey is not the morning’s eye,
‘Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow; (3.5.18-19)
6.
What narrative technique is being used in the following lines? [1]
O God, I have an ill-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou are below,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale. (3.5.53-56)
7.
What figure of speech is being used in the following lines? [1]
And trust me, love, in my eye so do you;
Dry sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu! Adieu! (3.5.57-58)
8.
What narrative technique is being used in the following lines? How do you know that
this technique is being used? [2]
Juliet: Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo, till I behold him – dead –
Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vex’d.
Madam, if you could find out but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it
That Romeo should, upon receipt thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. (3.5.93-99)
9.
What figure of speech is being employed in the following lines? [1]
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief? (3.5.197-198)