| “But soft! what light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and juliet is the sun!” | Romeo; metaphor |
| “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon” | Romeo; personification |
| “The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars” | Romeo; hyperbole |
| “O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art” | Romeo; metaphor |
| “Tis but thy name that is my enemy” | Juliet; Personification |
| “With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls” | Romeo; hyperbole; alliteration; |
| “I have night’s cloak to hind me from their sight” ????? | Romeo; Personification |
| “By love,that first did prompt me to enquirer, he lent me council and I lent him eyes” | Romeo; personification, hypebole |
| “Fain would I dwell on form,fain,fain deny” ????? | Juliet; pun |
| “It is so rash, too unadvised, too sudden; too like the lighting which does cease to he” | Juliet; Simile |
| “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep, the more I do thee” | Juliet; Simile |
| “A thousand times good night” | Juliet; hyperbole |
| “I will not fail. This twenty years from then” | Juliet; alliteration; hyperbole |
| “And yet no further than a wanton’s bird that lets it hop a little from her hand” | Juliet; conceit |
| “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow” | Juliet; alliteration; oxymoron |
| The prologue is in the form of a | Sonnet |
| “Can I go forward when my heart is here?” | Metaphor; Romeo |
| When Romeo is talking about the light/bright he is speaking in a | Soliloquy |
| How many days have past | 2 |
| Wherefore art thou Romeo (what does it mean) | Why is he who he is (said by: Juliet) |
| What is conceit | A figure of speech that makes an extended comparison between two dissimilar things |
| And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird that lets it hop a little from her hand like a poor prisoner in his twisted gives and with a silk thread plucks it back again so loving jealous of his liberty | Conceit; Juliet |
| From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels | Allusion; Friar Laurence |
| Wisely and slow. They stumble than run fast | For shadow; Friar Laurence |
| Shrift | When you go confess to the priest or friars |
| “But old folks many feign as they were dead” | Juliet; Simile |
| “These violent delights have violent ends” | Friar Laurence; foreshadowing |
| “Then love devourers death so what he dare” | Romeo; personification, alliteration |
| “What’s in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet?” | Juliet, if a rose was named differently it would still have a sweet smell so what is the difference with Romeo. |
Romeo and Juliet Act 2 quotes and figurative language
July 30, 2019