Your graphic essay needs to contain

2 quotes from Romeo and Juliet - you need to rewrite and then paraphrase the two quotes

10 examples of literary devices - label the device and give me examples from the play  (use the handout)

3 symbols - these symbols should be representative of the themes from the play (love, hate, revenge, family, etc.)

Character sketch - identify 2 characters and what they say/do, what others feel about them, how they look and feel and how you feel about them (use the handout)

storyline - you need to identify 10 events from the story (use the handout)

Elements Example from Play

Dialogue - Romeo and Juliet’s conversation about

Romeo’s staying longer at the end of

the balcony scene, in lines 125–130

Soliloquy - Juliet’s speech admitting her love to

Romeo, in lines 85–106

Monologue - Juliet’s speech when she thinks she is

alone, about Romeo’s having the name

of Montague, in lines 38–49

Aside - Romeo’s question about listening or

speaking, directed to the audience, in

line 37

Metaphor or other figure of speech

Romeo’s comparison of Juliet to the

sun, in line 3

"Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night” * An example of personification - something nonhuman has human characteristics.

“O brawling love, O loving hate.” * An example of oxymoron - two contradictory words have opposing or very diverse meaning.
"You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…” * Pun – a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings

“bounty is as boundless as the sea.” (Bounty is $ paid for something) * hyperbole: a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect

These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume… * Simile - comparison of two things using like or as. (what things are being compared)

With purple fountains issuing from your veins, / On pain of torture, from those bloody hands / Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground. * Imagery uses senses

"Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night” * An example of personification - something nonhuman has human characteristics.
“O brawling love, O loving hate.” * An example of oxymoron - two contradictory words have opposing or very diverse meanings

"You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…” * Pun – a play on words based on the similarity of sound between two words with different meanings

“bounty is as boundless as the sea.” (Bounty is $ paid for something) * hyperbole: a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effect

These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume… * Simile - comparison of two things using like or as. (what things are being compared)

With purple fountains issuing from your veins, / On pain of torture, from those bloody hands / Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground. * Imagery uses senses