Romeo And Juliet Vocab

Question 0

Assonance

Answer 0

The repetition of vowel sounds

My words Like sIlent raindrops fell

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

The repetition of initial sounds

Seven steaks sizzled

Question 2

Consonance

Answer 2

Repetition of end consonant sounds

First and last, odds and ends

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

Sound words like

Buzz click snap

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

An implied comparison between unlike things

He’s a house

Question 5

Simile

Answer 5

Comparison between two unlike things using like or as

Quiet as a mouse

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Giving human characteristics to an animal, object, or idea

The hours crawled by like years

Question 7

Oxymoron

Answer 7

The setting together for effect two words of opposite meaning
Burning cold, screaming whisper

Question 8

Foreshadowing

Answer 8

Clues that suggest something that will happen later

Question 9

Couplet

Answer 9

2 lines in a poem

Question 10

Soliloquy

Answer 10

Long speech by one character

Question 11

Aside

Answer 11

Short speech expressing a characters thoughts

Question 12

Allusion

Answer 12

Reference to something in history or literature

She had a Cinderella wedding

Question 13

Symbol

Answer 13

Roughly defined as something that means more than what it is
Wedding ring=commitment, honor

Question 14

Rhyme scheme

Answer 14

Alphabet letters are assigned to every new rhyme at the end of a line

Question 15

Setting of Romeo and Juliet

Answer 15

Verona Italy

Question 16

Benvolio

Answer 16

Romeos cousin

Question 17

Mercutio

Answer 17

Romeos best friend