Figurative Language (Romeo & Juliet, Acts I & II)

"O brawling love, o loving hate, o heavy lightness, serious vanity, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health."

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"Earth hath swallowed all my hopes..."

• onomatopoeia

• metaphor

• hyperbole

• personification

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CCSS.L.6.5A

"These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows..."

• alliteration

• simile

• personification

• onomatopoeia

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"Love is a smoke raised from the fumes of sighs."

• alliteration

• personification

• metaphor

• hyperbole

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night

Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear."

• metaphor

• simile

• alliteration

• personification

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun

Peered forth the golden window of the east."

• simile

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

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CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

"Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,

Which is as thin of substance as the air."

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

• oxymoron

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CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"You men, you beasts,

That quench the fire of your pernicious rage."

• alliteration

• personification

• simile

• metaphor

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

I warrant, an I should live a thousand years,

I never should forget it.

• metaphor

• alliteration

• hyperbole

• simile

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CCSS.L.11-12.5A

"It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3).

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

• metaphor

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CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D