Romeo & Juliet literary devices

"They have made worms' meat of me,"

• analogy

• oxymoron

• euphemism

• metaphor

"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes,"

• metaphor

• analogy

• pun

• consonance

"As mine on hers, as hers is set on mine."

• metaphor

• aphorism

• paradox

• chiasmus

"Oh, I have bought the mansion of love, /But not yet possessed it, and though I am sold, not yet enjoyed."

• conceit

• malapropism

• simile

• hyperbole

"You are looked for and called for, asked for and sought for, in the great chamber."

• alliteration

• epiphora

• personification

• apostrophe

"It is the East, and Juliet is the sun."

• oxymoron

• metaphor

• irony

• euphemism

"Villain I am none. I see thy knowest me not."

• anastrophe

• double entendre

• pun

• oxymoron

"My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words."

• analogy

• personification

• malapropism

• metaphor

"My life were better ended by their hate."

• conceit

• oxymoron

• apostrophe

• foreshadowing

Titan's fiery wheels; Cupid; Petrarch; Venus

• analogy

• chiasmus

• allusion

• simile