| “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”Romeo | Metaphor |
| “My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s untiring, yet I know the sound.”Juliet | Personification (ears don’t drink…) |
| “Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow,/ That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops.”Romeo | Imagery |
| “I have no joy of this contract tonight,/It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden,/Too like the lightning”Juliet | Simile |
| “My bounty is as boundless as the sea,/My love as deep”Juliet | Simile |
| “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow”Juliet | Oxymoron (sorrow isn’t sweet, right?) |
| “Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie…” | Personification (and alliteration, too!) |
| “The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,/Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light”Friar Lawrence | Personification |
| “And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels”Friar | Simile |
| “The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;/What is her burying grave, that is her womb”Friar | Metaphor |
| “Without his roe, like a dried herring: O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!”Mercutio | 1.Pun2. Simile3. Alliteration |
| “So smile the heavens upon this holy act/That after-hours with sorrow chide us not!”Friar | Personification |
| “These violent delights have violent ends,/And in their triumph die like fire and powder.”Friar | Foreshadowing (and imagery, too!) |
| “Shall I hear more or shall I speak at this?”Romeo, below Juliet’s balcony | Aside |
| “Oh, he’s the courageous captain of compliments.” | Alliteration |
| repetition of initial consonant sounds | Definition of Alliteration |
| A comparison of two unlike things using like or as | Definition of Simile |
| to use figurative language to represent objects, actions and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical senses. This word is associated with mental pictures. | Definition of Imagery |
| Words spoken aloud by one of the characters in a play to the audience. None of the other characters hear the words. | Definition of Aside |
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 literary devices
July 2, 2019