| ” heavy lightness” | oxymoron |
| “The gray-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night.” | personification |
| “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.” | personification |
| “Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lover’s eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lover’s tears.” | metaphor |
| “How silver-sweet sound lover’s tongue by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” | simile |
| “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these wals.” | hyperbole |
| “My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words of thy tongue’s uttering, yet I know the sound.” | Personification |
| “O’ bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower.” | hyperbole |
| “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!” | metaphor |
| “There lies more peril in thine eyes than twenty of their swords.” | hyperbole |
Romeo and Juliet Figurative Language
September 13, 2019