Literary Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

When 2 or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or sentence.
“from forth the fatal loins of these two foes”

Question 2

Aside

Answer 2

An aside is when a fictional character breaks away from the events of the story to talk to themselves or directly to the audience.

Question 3

Assonance

Answer 3

The repetition of the sound of a vowel
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move”
The L sound is an assonance in this quote, the beginning letter (L), LUH LUH LUH LUH

Question 4

Consonance

Answer 4

The recurrence of similar sounds
“I’ll look to like, if looking liking move”
The K sound is a consonance in this quote, the letter in the middle/end of the word which in this case is K KUH KUH KUH KUH

Question 5

Blank Verse

Answer 5

Verse without rhyme, uses iambic pentameter

Question 6

Dramatic Irony

Answer 6

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t

Question 7

Foreshadowing

Answer 7

Suggestions or warnings about events to come dropped or planted in a text

Question 8

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 8

Putting emphasis on a syllable
The line must have 10 syllables
“A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

Comparison of two things without using “like” or “as”

Question 10

Meter

Answer 10

Rhythm of lines of poetry

Question 11

Monologue

Answer 11

A long uninterrupted speech given by one character, and everyone can hear it. Its often during or after an event and includes a moral lesson/thematic message.
An example is prince Escalus’s speech in Act 1. This was a long uninterrupted speech where everyone on the streets could hear him. This speech was also given after an event, the fight in the streets.

Question 12

Personification

Answer 12

Describing something with human traits in order to craft a vivid image of that object in the readers mind.

Question 13

Prologue

Answer 13

It introduces the plot and the character before an Act begins

Question 14

Pun (bawdy and non-bawdy)

Answer 14

Normal (non-bawdy) pun: a play on words
Bawdy pun: dirty pun/sexually loaded pun

Question 15

Rhyming Couplet

Answer 15

A pair of lines of a verse of the same length that rhyme
“The which, if you with patient ears attend,
what here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend”

Question 16

Shakespearean Sonnet

Answer 16

14 lines, iambic pentameter, always ends in a rhyming couplet

Question 17

Simile

Answer 17

Comparison of two things using “like” or “as”

Question 18

Soliloquy

Answer 18

A long uninterrupted speech given by one character, however, they are thinking aloud (internal thoughts and emotion) therefore only readers can hear this, not the characters.
This often creates dramatic irony.

Question 19

Oxymoron

Answer 19

When two contradictory words are placed together
“O loving hate”

Question 20

Motif

Answer 20

A distinctive feature or dominant idea that is an artistic or literary component.

Question 21

Light/Dark Imagery (motif)

Answer 21

-Actions happening in either morning or night
-Romeo and Juliet comparing each other to light
-Usual meanings flipped, the characters favor the night
-Used to provide/highlight contrast
Romeo was in the light and sad and depressed because of Rosaline but when he met Juliet he was in the dark and their love was covered by the night