| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN?Romeo: O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art/As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,/As is a wingèd messenger of heaven | This is a simile. Romeo is comparing Juliet’s beauty to the night and an angel. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN?Juliet: My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words/Of that tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound. | This is personification. Juliet means she knows this voice in just a few words. Ears cannot drink in words. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN?Romeo: I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes, | This is personification. The night does not have a cloak. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE IS SHOWN?Friar Laurence: Within the infant rind of this small flowerPoison hath residence and medicine power.For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.Two such opposèd kings encamp them still,In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will. | This is an extended metaphor comparing the two parts of the flower, poison and medicine, to the feuding families. This can also symbolize love and hate. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/LITERARY DEVICE IS SHOWN?MERCUTIOAlas, poor Romeo! He is already dead, stabbed with/a white wench’s black eye, shot through the ear with/a love song, the very pin of his heart cleft with the/blind bow-boy’s butt shaft. | This can be foreshadowing by alluding to the fact that Romeo will die soon. This can also be a metaphor comparing love to being distracted. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/LITERARY DEVICE IS SHOWN?NURSE: I must another wayTo fetch a ladder, by the which your loveMust climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark. | This is a metaphor comparing a bird’s nest to Juliet’s room. |
| WHAT TYPE OF FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE/LITERARY DEVICE IS SHOWN?ROMEO:Do thou but close our hands with holy words,Then love-devouring death do what he dare; | This is personification because death does not devour love; it may also be foreshadowing as another reference to death. |
Romeo and Juliet Act II Figurative Language/Literary Devices
November 1, 2019