Figurative language rj

Simile

Capulet- "Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field"(4.5.33-34).

Metaphor

Capulet- "See, there she lies, flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; my daughter he hath wedded"(4.5.44-47).

Personification

Friar Laurence- "The heavens do lower [frown] upon you for some ill; move them no more by crossing their high will"(4.5.105-106).

Foreshadowing

Juliet- "O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails, or thou lookst pale"(3.5.55-58).

Soliloquy

Juliet- "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet"(2.2.35-38).

Oxymoron

Juliet- "O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!"(3.2.79).

Allusion

Mercutio- "Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in"(2.4.40-41).

Tragedy

Prince- "Capulet, Montague, see what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished"(5.3.315-319).

Apostrophe

Romeo- "Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night"(3.2.20-21).

Tragic Hero

Romeo- "O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die"(5.3.122-123).

Dramatic Irony

Romeo- "Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting. Villain am I none. Therefore farewell. I see thou knowst me not"(3.2.65-68).