Daily Exercise

• Create one original sentence for any 5 vocabulary words from Unit 9. Be sure your sentence 1) uses the word properly, and 2) demonstrates the complete meaning of the word. Many of you will be asked to read your sentence(s) aloud!

Literary Devices

In Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet

Alliteration the repetition of usually initial consonant

sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) —called also initial rhyme

“If e'er thou wast thyself, and these woes thine, Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline.”

Allusion• an implied or indirect reference especially in

literature; also : the use of such references

• the act of alluding to or hinting at something

"Dido a dowdy, Cleopatra a gypsy, Helen and Hero hildings and harlots, Thisbe a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose." (Shakespeare used an allusion to other known romantic tragedies in Romeo and Juliet.)

Apostrophe• the addressing of a usually absent person or a

usually personified thing rhetorically • Juliet: “O fortune, fortune! All men call thee

fickle”

• Juliet: “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”

Aside• an utterance meant to be inaudible to

someone; especially : an actor's speech heard by the audience but supposedly not by other characters

• Romeo: “She speaks”

Anaphora“Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice” ~Robert Frost

“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain” ~Robert Frost

• Juliet: “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.‘”

Conceit • An extended comparison involving unlikely metaphors,

similes, imagery, hyperbole, and oxymora. • One of the most famous conceits is John Donne's "A Valediction:

Forbidding Mourning," a poem in which Donne compares two souls in love to the points on a geometer's compass.

• Shakespeare also uses conceits regularly in his poetry.

• Capulet: “For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs;Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,Without a sudden calm, will oversetThy tempest-tossed body.”

Dramatic Irony• in literature, a plot device in which the audience’s

or reader’s knowledge of events or individuals surpasses that of the characters. The words and actions of the characters therefore take on a different meaning for the audience or reader than they have for the play’s characters. This may happen when, for example, a character reacts in an inappropriate or foolish way or when a character lacks self-awareness and thus acts under false assumptions.

Imagery• Words or phrases that appeal to the five

senses