Did William Shakespeare help make the KJV bible?

Need help on questions for the book of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Act 1?

• Entire Act One Questions 1. Find two examples of each of the following literacy device (what does this mean?) used anywhere in Act One. a) Pun b) Alliteration c) Oxymoron d) Allusion e) Allusion f) Metaphor g) Hyperbole h. Irony i. Comic Relief j. Foreshadow k. Aside Just one question and I need help for this question! Also I checked in google in these words and it's hard to understand for me. So I was wondering for you to write the definitions of the following above words as well. Thank you very much! Someone help me! Words aren't understandable so it doesn't make sense so which is why I need your help for the old English (it's hard to understand)!

• Answer:

  It's LITERARY devices, not literacy devices. And Shakespeare did not write in "old English." He wrote in early Modern English, very close to the language we use today. (In fact, he coined lots of the words and phrases we use every day.) Old English looks like this, a totally different language: Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. You should be using an edition of the play that has footnotes explaining words that might possibly be unfamiliar to you. If you don't have such an edition, get one. Your library will have one, or you can get a copy of the play in an edition like that at a used-book store for about 50c or a dollar. If you don't understand the terms describing literary devices, don't "check in google" for them; look in a reliable source. Your library probably has, either via online access or in print, an encyclopedia of literature or something similar; ask the librarian. It will explain these terms. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics is a good one and many libraries have it. Finally, I find it very hard to believe that your teacher would ask you to find metaphors, asides, etc., in a text without having explained what all those devices are, either in a lecture or in some reading you should have done. Are you sure you just didn't sleep through class or fail to do your homework?