“It is the east, and juliet is the sun” | Metaphor |
“Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief” | Personification |
“The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp” | Personification and simile |
“I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far as that vast shore wash’d with the farthest sea, I would venture such merchandise” | Hyperbole |
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have for both are infinite” | Hyperbole and simile |
“How silver sweet lover’s tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears!” | Simile |
” the grey eyed morn smiles on the frowning night” | Personification |
“With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls; for stony limits cannot hold love out” | Hyperbole |
“Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books” | Simile |
“Jesu Maria! What a deal of brine, hath wash’d thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline” | Hyperbole |
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 : figurative language
August 4, 2019