| A | B |
| Personification | giving living characteristics to an object or idea |
| Pun | a play on words |
| Dramatic Irony | the audience knows something the characters do not |
| Solioquy | a long speech by one character |
| Aside | dramatic convention in which an actor speaks his or her feelings and thoughts directly to the audience |
| Prince Escaulus | "If ever you disturb out streets again/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace." |
| Romeo | "Ah, dear Juliet! Why art thou yet so fair?" |
| Mercutio | "Ask me in the morning, and you shall find me a grave man." |
| Capulet | "My child is but a stranger in the world./She hath not seen the change of fourteen years." |
| Friar Laurence | "For this alliance may so happy prove/To turn their households' rancor to pure love." |
| Juliet | "O happy dagger!" |
| Friar Laurence | "I dare no longer stay!" |
| Mercutio | "A plague on both your houses!" |
| Romeo | "Oh, I am fortune's fool." |
| Juliet | "Oh, thou shalt not make me a joyful bride." |
| Juliet | "My only love sprung from my only hate." |
| Tybalt | challenges Romeo to a duel in a letter |
| Mercutio | teases Nurse |
| Nurse | seeks out Romeo for a message regarding marriage |
| Friar Laurence | "violoent delights have violent ends." |