O Speak Again Bright Angel Figurative Language
Romeo & Juliet – Figurative language in Act ii Scene 2
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"Information technology is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (two.2.3).
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metaphor – it compares Juliet to the sunday
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"Arise, off-white sun, and impale the envious moon" (2.two.iv).
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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 thousand, her maid, art far more than off-white than she" (2.ii.5-half-dozen).
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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, equally daylight doth a lamp…" (2.2.xix-20).
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hyperbole – exaggeration. Juliet'south cheek is so vivid information technology puts the brightness of stars to shame.
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"…her eyes in sky Would through the blusterous region stream so bright That birds would sing and think information technology were non night" (2.2.20-22).
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hyperbole – exaggeration. If Juliet'southward optics were like stars in heaven looking downwards on us, it would be then bright that birds would be singing because they thought it was daytime.
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"O, speak again, vivid affections! For thou art equally glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as a winged messenger of heaven…" (2.two.28-thirty).
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metaphor – Romeo compares Juliet to a "vivid affections" simile – she is AS glorious to the night AS a "winged messenger of heaven"
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"With dearest's low-cal wings did I o'erperch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out" (ii.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 center than twenty of their swords!" (2.two.75-76).
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hyperbole – Romeo claims there is more danger in Juliet'southward eyes than in twenty of her relatives coming at him with their swords
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"I take night'due south cloak to hide me from their eyes" (two.2.79).
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personification – nighttime does not have a cloak
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"I am no airplane pilot; yet, wert g as far as that vast shore was'd with the uttermost sea, I should adventure for such trade" (2.ii.86-88).
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"Thou know'st the mask of nighttime is on my face…" (ii.2.89).
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metaphor – compares the darkness of dark to a mask
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"Although I joy in thee, I accept no joy of this contract to-nite; It is too rash, too unadvis'd, as well sudden, likewise like the lightning, which doth finish to exist ere i can say it lightens" (2.two.122-126).
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simile – Juliet compares their "contract", or promises of dear, 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 bear witness a beauteous flower when next we run into…" (ii.2.127-128).
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personification – summer does not have "ripening jiff" metaphor – compares their love to a blossom bud
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"Beloved goes toward love, every bit schoolboys from their books…" (two.2.165).
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simile – compares how lovers go to lovers with the same joy as schoolboys leave their schoolwork backside
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"… Merely love from honey, toward school with heavy looks" (2.2.166).
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metaphor – compares how lovers get out one another with the aforementioned unhappiness schoolboys feel when going to school
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"How silver-sugariness sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attention 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 so" (2.two.182).
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hyperbole – exaggeration. The short time they are autonomously will feel like xx years
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"…I would have thee gone; — and yet no farther than a wanton's bird, that lets information technology hop a little from her hand…" (ii.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 concatenation that can merely "hop a picayune from her manus" 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 once more, so loving-jealous of his liberty" (2.2.192-194).
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simile – compares the bird (Romeo) to a "poor prisoner"
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