| Allusion | Aurora’s bed |
| Allusion | Cupid’s arrow |
| Allusion | Dian’s wit |
| Simile | Love… it pricks like a thorn |
| Simile | It seems she hangs upon the cheek of light as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s |
| Simile | Scaring the ladies like a crow keeper |
| Simile | Begot of nothing, but vain fantasy, which is as thin of substance as the air |
| Metaphor | What ho! You men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage |
| Metaphor | Peered forth from the golden window of the east |
| Metaphor | Think thy swan a cow |
| Metaphor | Love is a smoke with the fine of sighs |
| Metaphor | My lips, two blushing pilgrims |
| Personification | Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my Breast |
| Personification | These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows |
| Personification | Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she |
| Personification | And fine right writ there with beauty’s pen |
| Hyperbole | I warrant, An I should live a thousand years |
| Oxymoron | O brawling love, o loving hate, o heavy lightness, serious vanity, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health |
| Pun | You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead |
| Pun | That dreamers often lie. |
| Pun | …we’ll not carry coals… No for them we should be colliers … an we be in choler…collar |
| Foreshadowing | By some vile forfeit of untimely death. |
| Foreshadowing | If he be married, my grave is like to be my wedding bed |
Figurative Language Romeo and Juliet act 1
July 7, 2019