I, like, Literally Love Literary Devices:
Act II in Romeo & Juliet
Line
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
-Romeo – (scene 2, line 3)
Arise, fair sun, and kill the
envious moon. Who is already
sick and pale with grief
-Romeo- (scene 2, line 4)
O that I were a glove upon that
hand,/That I might touch that
cheek!
-Romeo- (scene 2, line 24 -25)
My ears have not yet drunk a
hundred words of thy tongue’s
uttering, yet I know the sound.
-Juliet – (scene 2, lines 58 -59)
With love’s light wings did I
o’erperch these walls.
-Romeo- (Scene 2, line 66)
Lady, by yonder blessed moon I
vow,/That tips with silver all these
fruit-tree tops
-Romeo- (scene 2, lines107-108)
I have no joy of this contract
tonight,/It is too rash, too
unadvis’d, too sudden, /Too like
the lightning, which doth cease to
be ere one can say “It lightens”
-Juliet- (scene 2, lines 117-119)
My bounty is as boundless as the
sea,/My love as deep;
-Juliet- (Scene 2, lines 133 -134)
Good night, good night! Parting is
such sweet sorrow,
-Juliet- (scene 2, line 184)
Literary
Device
What does it mean…
-Romeo is comparing Juliet to the light of the
morning sun. Also, saying that the sun is a person
(Juliet). – light imagery – as bright as the sun, light
(beautiful, pure) as opposed to dark
Line
The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the
frowning night,/Chek’ring the
eastern clouds with streaks of light
-Friar Lawrence- (Sc 3, lines 1-2)
And flecked darkness like a
drunkard reels
-Friar- (scene 3, line 3)
From forth day’s path and Titan’s
fiery wheels: Now ere the sun
advance his burning eye
-Friar- (Scene 3, line 4 - 5)
The earth that’s nature’s mother is
her tomb;/What is her burying
grave, that is her womb;
-Friar- (scene 3, lines 9-10)
Without his roe, like a dried
herring: O flesh, flesh, how art
thou fishified!
-Mercutio- (scene 4, lines37-38)
Now is he for the numbers
that/Petrarch flowed in. Laura to
his lady was a kitchen wench...
Dido a dowry, Cleopatra a gypsy,
Helen and Hero hildings and
harlots, Thisbe a grey eye or so,
but not to the purpose.
- Mercutio- (sc 4, lines 38-42)
Then love-devouring Death do
what he dare,
-Romeo- (scene 6, line 7)
These violent delights have violent
ends,/And in their triumph die like
fire and powder.
-Friar- (scene 6, lines 9 -10)
Literary
Device
What does it mean…