Term
| "I will be brief, for my short date of breath. Is not so long as is a tedious tale." (5.3.228-229) |
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Definition
| Simile- a comparison that uses like or as. Comparing the death to being fast and short to the tedious tale/story. |
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| "Yea, noise? Then I'll be be brief. O' happy dagger." (5.3.167) |
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Definition
| Personification- an item has an added human characteristic. In this case, the dagger has a human emotion of happiness. |
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| "For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes this vault a feasting presence full of light." (5.3.86-87) |
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Definition
| Metaphor- Comparison without using like or as. Romeo is comparing Juliet to light. |
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Term
| "I am the greatest, able to do the least, yet most suspected, as the time and place. Doth make against me of this direful murder." (5.3.222-225) |
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Definition
| Hyperbole- Over exaggerated. Clearly shows how he thinks he is the best/greatest, but isn't. |
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| "That I revived, and was an emperor." (5.1.9) |
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Definition
| Metaphor- doesn't use like or as. Compared to an emperor. |
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Term
| "and that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violently as hasty powder fired doth hurry from the fatal cannon;s womb." (5.1.63-65) |
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Definition
| Simile- a comparison that uses like or as. Compares the drug to a cannon. Pretty much saying how it will shoot your system with no remorse. |
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Term
| "The world is not thy friend nor the world's law; The world affords no law to make thee rich;" (5.1.72-73) |
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Definition
| Personification- an item has an added human characteristic. The world is made to seem to be friends, make laws, and can't afford mistakes. It's the people and society that do. The world is a symbol to explain everything around them. These actions were given to represent human interactions/ characteristics. |
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Term
| "Put this in any liquid thing you will, and drink it off, and, if you had the strength of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight." (5.1.76-79) |
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Definition
| Hyperbole- Over exaggerated. With a small potion, there is not enough to kill 20 men with it since that 1 bottle killed 1 person. They were over exaggerating the damage that could have been done/created. |
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