Literary Techniques Flashcards
O brawling love! O loving hate!
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Oxymoron
Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit
With Cupid’s arrow; she hath Dian’s wit.
Allusion
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?
No, no! this shall forbid it. Lie thou there.
Soliloquy
With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
Hyperbole
If love be rough with you, be rough with love;
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
Pun
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Monologue
Take this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilled liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
Dramatic irony
