Literary techniques(romeo and juliet}

Arantza Gálvez Toledo
Literary Techniques
1. Alliteration (2)
* From forth the fatal loins of these two foes. (The prologue, line 5, page 7)

* JULIET- I’ll look to like, if looking liking move. (ACT1, Scene4, line 103, page 41)

* PARIS-O love! O life! Not life, but love in death! (ACT4,Scene5, line 64 page 203)
2. Allusion (2)
* MONTAGUE- The shady curtains from Aurora´s bed
(ACT1, Scene1, line 139, page 19)

* ROMEO- She’ll not ne hint with Cupid´s arrow.
(ACT1, Scene1, line 216-217, page 23)
3. Aside (2)
* ROMEO- O speak again, bright angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a wingedmessenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wond’ring eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air
(ACT2, Scene2, line 29-35, page 71)

* ROMEO- Shall I hear more, or hall I speak at this?
(ACT2, Scene2, line 40, page 71)

4.Assonance (2)
5. Blank Verse (2)
* PRINCE- A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun for sorrow will not show his head.
Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and Romeo.
(ACT5, Scene3, line 316-321,page 243)
6. Comic Relief (2)
* PETER Prates.- What say you, James Soundpost?
THIRD [MUSICIAN]- Faith, I know not what to say.
PETER- O, I cry you mercy. You are singer. I will say for you. It is “music with her
silver sound” because musicians have no gold for sounding
[sings] Then music with her silver sound
With speddy help doth lend redress-
FIRST[MUSICIAN]- What a pestilent knave is this same!
(ACT4, Scene5, line 142-150, page 207)



7. External Conflict (2)
* TYBALT- Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
Shalt with him hence.
ROMEO- This shall determine that.
They fight. Tybalt falls.
(ACT1, Scene3, line 135-38, page 125)

8. Internal Conflict(2)

* JULIET- O serpent heart hid with a flow’ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divine show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st,
A [damned] saint, an honorable villain.O nature, what hadts thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!
(ACT3, Scene2, line 79-91, page 135)

9. Couplet (1)
* TYBALT- Iwill withdraw, but this instrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall.
(ACT1, Scene5, line 101-103, page 57)

10. Foreshadowing (2)
* PRINCE- If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
(ACT1, Scene1, line 98-99, page 15)

* ROMEO- This day’s black fate on moredays doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.
(ACT3, Scene1, line 124-125, page 123)

11. Foil (2)
* ROMEO- So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.
(ACT1, Scene5, line 55, page 53)

12. Hyperbole (2)
* MONTAGUE- Many morning hath he there been seen
With tears augmenting the fresh morning´s dew...