It is the east, and Juliet is the sun – Romeo | Metaphor/ Imagery/ Personification |
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon – Romeo | Personification |
O that I were a glove upon that hand,/That I might touch that cheek! – Romeo | Metaphor |
My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s untiring, yet I know the sound – Juliet | Personification |
With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls – Romeo | Personification |
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 | Oxymoron |
Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie | Personification |
What does Shrift mean? | Confession |
The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,/Check’ring the eastern clouds with streaks of light – Friar Lawerence | Personification/ Imagery |
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels – Friar | Simile |
From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels: Now ere the sun advance his burning eye – Friar | Allusion/ Personification |
The earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb;/What is her burying grave, that is her womb – Friar | Couplet/ Metaphor |
Without his roe, like a dried herring: O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! – Mercutio | Pun/ Simile/ Alliteration |
Now is he for the numbers that/Petrarch flowed in. Laura to his lady was a kitchen wench… Dido a dowry – Mercutio | Allusions/ Metaphors/ Foreshadowing |
Then love-devouring Death to what he dare, – Romeo | Personification |
These violent delights have violent ends,/And in their triumph die like fire and powder – Friar | Foreshadowing/ Imagery |
Care keeps his watch in every old mans eye | Personification |
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 literary devices
August 7, 2019