Romeo & Juliet – Figurative language in Act 2 Scene 2 – Flashcards
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"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3).
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metaphor - it compares Juliet to the sun
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"Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" (2.2.4).
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personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is envious (jealous).
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"Who is already sick and pale with grief that thou, her maid, art far more fair than she" (2.2.5-6).
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personification - gives human qualities to the moon. It is sick and pale with grief.
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"The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp..." (2.2.19-20).
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hyperbole - exaggeration. Juliet's cheek is so bright it puts the brightness of stars to shame.
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"...her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night" (2.2.20-22).
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hyperbole - exaggeration. If Juliet's eyes were like stars in heaven looking down on us, it would be so bright that birds would be singing because they thought it was daytime.
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"O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art as glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as a winged messenger of heaven..." (2.2.28-30).
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metaphor - Romeo compares Juliet to a "bright angel" simile - she is AS glorious to the night AS a "winged messenger of heaven"
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"With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out" (2.2.70-71).
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hyperbole - love gave him wings to climb over the walls and reach Juliet
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"...there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords!" (2.2.75-76).
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hyperbole - Romeo claims there is more danger in Juliet's eyes than in twenty of her relatives coming at him with their swords
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"I have night's cloak to hide me from their eyes" (2.2.79).
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personification - night does not have a cloak
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"Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face..." (2.2.89).
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metaphor - compares the darkness of night to a mask
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"Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-nite; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, too sudden, too like the lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say it lightens" (2.2.122-126).
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simile - Juliet compares their "contract", or promises of love, to lightning. It is sudden and quick - lightning disappears from the sky before you can say there was lightning.
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"This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, may prove a beauteous flower when next we meet..." (2.2.127-128).
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personification - summer does not have "ripening breath" metaphor - compares their love to a flower bud
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"Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books..." (2.2.165).
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simile - compares how lovers go to lovers with the same joy as schoolboys leave their schoolwork behind
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"... But love from love, toward school with heavy looks" (2.2.166).
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metaphor - compares how lovers leave one another with the same unhappiness schoolboys experience when going to school
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"How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears" (2.2.175-176).
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simile - compares the sound of lovers talking at night to soft music
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"...'tis twenty years til then" (2.2.182).
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hyperbole - exaggeration. The short time they are apart will feel like 20 years
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"...I would have thee gone; -- and yet no farther than a wanton's bird, that lets it hop a little from her hand..." (2.2.189-191).
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metaphor - Juliet expresses how closely she wishes Romeo could stay to her by comparing him to a bird kept on a chain that can only "hop a little from her hand" hyperbole - exaggeration of just how close she wants to keep Romeo
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"...like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves (chains), and with a silk thread plucks it back again, so loving-jealous of his liberty" (2.2.192-194).
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simile - compares the bird (Romeo) to a "poor prisoner"
