What are six figurative language in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

Please use the following ideas as a prompt for your own.. 1) "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. / From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;..." The Prologue, 3-6 This first example is rife with hyperbole because it makes tremendous the theme of long-lasting, generational strife between the Montagues and Capulets. The excerpt goes so far as to imply the birth of Romeo and Juliet as, by consequence of their individual parentage and conflicting origin, a curse. And a curse, to make matters worse, ultimately ending in the worst of consequences: Death. The rhetorical devices aren't as hyperbolic here as the ideas, which, being expressed through language, become hyperbolic. 2) "What, ho! you men, you beasts, / That quench the fire of your pernicious rage / With purple fountains issuing from your veins!..." Prince, I.I 82-84 Thuggish gang-fighting has taken to the streets of "Fair Verona". The Montagues are at war with the Capulets, bringing their lack of peace into an otherwise peaceable world. The Prince, someone of a Police Chief, compares the hate between the two gangs as burning like a fire that is only put out by blood-shed. Further, calling the warring gangsters "beasts", emphasizes the non-human, uncivilized qualities these feuding mobsters are manifesting. Hyperbole is used here to create a visceral effect upon the audience (Whoa!), while succinctly and beautifully describing the murderous hate at the root of the generational strife between the Houses of Montague and Capulet. 3) "...O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything, of nothing first create!/ O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,..." I.I 175-178 How can love brawl? How can hate be loving? Can something be created out of nothing? Lightness is not heavy. Vanity is shallow; not serious. Chaos is never aesthetically pleasing. The oxymoronic juxtapositions of concepts here is the best example of hyperbole in English Literature. Not only do these juxtapositions drive home the idea that war between people, Montague or Capulet, is ridiculous and against what we know to be sound, pleasing and harmonious; the juxtapositions between tensed opposites sets the stage for the bringing together of Romeo and Juliet, who are, undoubtedly, two opposites in tension soon to be united. There is a theme in Shakespeare's R&J, a theme common to all of his plays. This is the theme of a Fallen World, a world that is filled with that which does not make sense to what we as humans deep-down hold as true, right and good. Valete amici!

Answer 2

Juliet ; "What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, so stumblest on my counsel"

Alliteration: <thou that, thus> (Translation: Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?")

Juliet ; "My bounty is as boundlesss as the sea, my love as deep"

Simile: (Translation: My generosity to you is as limitless as the sea, and my love as deep)

Romeo ; "Lady, by yonder blessed moon I vow, that tips with silver all these fruit tree tops--"

Personification: (Translation: Lady, I swear by the sacred moon above, the moon that paints the tops of fruit trees with silver"

Answer 3

"What light from yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun."

Answer 4

A simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, onomatopoeia,idiom and symbolism