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Unit 5 Figurative Language Assessment
Learning Targets
● I can identify the following literary devices in a text: personification, metaphor, simile, oxymoron, pun, and hyperbole.
● I can explain the meaning of an example of figurative language in a text by analyzing what is being compared.
● I can connect the use of figurative language to the meaning of the text as a whole.
Prompt
Shakespeare was the master of figurative language. Write an extended response (8 + sentences) analyzing how the use of figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, oxymoron, pun, and hyperbole) contributes to the meaning of a significant moment of the play.
Step 1: Look at the provided choices; based on your group assignment, choose one
device to analyze.
Step 2: Identify a scene or passage which includes the device.
Step 3: Reread and annotate your chosen passage.
Step 4: Fill out the Figurative Language Analysis worksheet.
Step 5: Write an extended response including a claim, background of the line, woven
and cited quotation, analysis, and summary sentence.
Assessment
Though you are writing this paragraph, you will be assessed with the Speaking and Listening Rubric. After creating a final draft of your paragraph, you will “present” it to the teacher. You will be assessed on your verbal argument (claim, evidence, analysis) and your delivery (volume, rate, eye contact, familiarity with topic). Though you will have the paragraph in front of you, you must rehearse multiple times so that you do not rely on your essay itself.
This assignment will be worth 50 points and will go towards the Writing & Presentations portion of your grade (30%).
ACT 3
Scene 1
“Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man”
“Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk? [...] Good king of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives” (Lines 73, 75-76)
“A plague o’both of your house! They made worms’ meat of me.” (Lines 88-89)
Scene 2
“Spread they close curtain, love-performing night, That runaways’ eyes may wink, and Romeo Leap to these arms untalked of and unseen” (Lines 5-7).
“Tybalt is dead, and Romeo-banished.” That “banished,” that one word “banished,” hath slain ten thousand Tybalts.”
“Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die, take him and cut him in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night…”
Scene 3
“Heaven is here, where Juliet lives; and every cat and dog and little mouse, every unworthy thing, live here in heaven and may look on her” (Lines 30-33).
“But Romeo may not, he is banished. Flies may do this but I from this must fly; They are freemen, but I am banished.” (Lines 40-43)
“Ha, banishment! Be merciful, say death; For exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say “banishment.”
“Doth not she think me an older murderer Now I have stained the childhood of our joy with blood removed but little from her own?” (Lines 94-96)
*Various devices all from Lines 110-155 on pg. 862
Scenes 4 and 5
“I was fool would married to her grave”
ACT 4
Scene 1
“Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears”
“ O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears, or hide me nightly in a charnel house” (Lines 77-80)
“The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade to wanny ashes, they eyes’ windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life” (Lines 98-100).
Scene 2
“I’ll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning” (Line 24)
Scene 3
“For I have need of many orisons to move the heavens to smile upon my state” (Lines 3-5)
“I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins that almost freezes up the heat of life” (Lines 15-16).
“At some hours in the night spirits resort-[...] what with loathsome smells, and shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth” (Lines 44-47).
Scene 4
“O heavy day!” (Line 18)
“ Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” (Lines 28-29)
“Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.” (Lines 31-32)
“Read to go, but never to return. O son, the night before thy wedding day and Death lain with thy wife. There she lies, flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded. I will die and leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s” (Lines 34-40)
ACT 5
Scene 1
“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead (Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!) And breathed such life with kisses in my lips that I revived and was an emperor.” (Lines 6-9)
“Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed, when but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!” (Lines 10-11)
“O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!” (Lines 35-36)
“And that the trunk may be discharged of breath as violent as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb” (Lines 63-65)
“And if you had the strength of twenty men, [this liquid thing] would dispatch you straight” (Lines 78-79)
Scene 2
“He will beshrew me much that Romeo hath had no notice of these accidents; But I will write again to Mantua, and keep her at my cell till Romeo come—Poor living corse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!” (Lines 25-29)
Scene 3
“Death, that hath sucke dthe honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty” (Lines 92-94)
“Here, here will I remain with words that are they chambermaids” (Lines 108-109)
“By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. The time and my intents are savage-wild, more fierce and more inexorable far than empty tigers or the roaring sea” (Lines 35-39)
“Thou detestable maw,° thou womb of death, gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, and in despite° I’ll cram thee with more food” (Lines 45-48)
“Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And.lips, O you the doors for breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!” (Lines 112-115)
“We see the ground whereon these woes do lie, but the true ground of all these piteous woes we cannot without circumstance descry” (Lines 179-181)
“Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love, and I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen,” (Lines 291-294)
“The sun for sorrow will not show his head” (Line 306)