Word Choice in Act I of Romeo & Juliet

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  1. 2. The nurse describes him as a "man of wax."
  2. 5. Romeo uses this when he says that love is a "heavy lightness" and a "feather of lead."
  3. 7. Romeo uses a simile when he says that love "pricks like ___."
  4. 9. Romeo uses a metaphor to describe the sadness and frustration that love brings: It is a "sea ____ with tears."
  5. 10. Romeo uses this as a metaphor to emphasize the strong inclination to worship Juliet
  6. 14. the Shakepearean equivalent of flipping someone off
  7. 15. Romeo believes that his sin is ___ by kissing Juliet.
  8. 16. Benvolio uses a metaphor when he tells Romeo that the party will yield beautiful women that will "make thee swan [Rosaline] a ___."
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  1. 1. Romeo and Juliet use this rhetorical device during their first conversation to dance around the idea of kissing
  2. 3. Juliet uses this rhetorical device when she says that her "only love sprung from [her] only hate."
  3. 4. Lady Capulet uses this extended metaphor to describe Paris- he is an "unbound lover."
  4. 6. Benvolio personifies love: "Alas that love, so gentle in his view, should be so ____ and rough in proof!"
  5. 8. a play on words
  6. 11. Mercutio uses this common expression when he calls Romeo a stick in the mud.
  7. 12. Romeo uses this when he says he has "a soul of lead [that] stakes [him] to the ground."
  8. 13. Romeo alludes to this mythological being that shoots arrows to make mortals fall in love