New! Understand every line ofRomeo and Juliet. Read ourmodern English translation. Next Family and Duty Themes and Colors LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme inRomeo and Juliet, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. ...
Family and Duty Theme Analysis New! Understand every line of Romeo and Juliet. Read our modern English translation. Next Quotes Themes and Colors LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Romeo and Juliet, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Though...
New! Understand every line ofRomeo and Juliet. Read ourmodern English translation. Next All Quizzes InRomeo and Juliet, potions represent emotional escape.RomeoandJulietboth find themselves, at crucial moments in the play, turning to potions and poisons to deaden themselves, temporarily or permanent...
Romeo and Juliet: Prologue Quiz 2 questions New! Understand every line of Romeo and Juliet. Read our modern English translation. Next Act 1, Scene 1 Quiz Get 3 quizzes by signing up for a free account Test your knowledge of Prologue. Submit your answers to see your results and get...
All for one and one for all! Repetition Example from Literature: Assonance In these lines from Book XII of Lattimore's translation of Homer's Iliad the assonance helps reinforce the lulling effect of the winds' sleep: "When Zeus ... stills the winds asleep in the solid drift ..." Re...
The word "dénouement" comes from French, and literally means "unknotting." But a more faithful translation would be "outcome," "resolution," or "finale." Dénouement can be spelled with or without the accent over the first "e." How to Pronounce Dénouement Here's how to pronounce dénoueme...
The following examples of euphony have been gathered from poetry and plays, ranging from the time of the Greeks to today. Euphony in The Iliad In these lines from Book XII of Lattimore's translation of Homer's Iliad, euphony helps reinforce the lulling effect of the winds dying down. Pay...
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James translation of the Bible. The King James Version uses "cockatrice" to translate the Hebrew word for a serpent-like creature in Psalm 91, Proverbs 23, and several chapters of Isaiah. Cockatrices also showed up a lot in Elizabethan drama, like Shakespeare'sRichard IIIandRomeo and Juliet....
or dash. A caesura doesn't have to be placed in the exact middle of a line of poetry. It can be placed anywhere after the first word and before the last word of a line. In the following line from the prologue ofRomeo and Juliet, the comma after "Verona" marks a caesura: "In fai...