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What types of figurative language are found in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet?

Question #84998. Asked by Mex93.
Last updated Jul 26 2021.

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Personification ("tis Juliet the Sun"), symbolism, hypberbole, irony, and metaphor.

Aug 27 2007, 4:24 PM
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I don't want to be doing anyone's homework, but I'm dying to use Frankie's site :-) so here is one example.

"Juliet is the sun" is a metaphor.

link https://www.bard.org/study-guides/examining-the-text-romeo-and-juliet

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jul 26 2021.
Aug 27 2007, 4:28 PM
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I don't want to be doing anyone's homework either, but I do love the Shakespeare Lookup.

Aside from the charming metaphors and similes (stars and suns and roses), this entire scene is laden throughout with dramatic irony, as the original audience would have guessed, even without knowing, for certain, the denouement. (And the story was not original to Shakespeare.)

Aug 27 2007, 4:55 PM
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Question #84999. Mex93 asks:
Can anyone give examples of figurative language found in the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet?

jonnowales posts:

Figurative language is language that evokes imagery in the mind of the reader.

In Romeo and Juliet's Balcony Scene it is found in abundance.

"As is a winged messenger of heaven" - That is just one of many.

Here is the scene written by William Shakespeare:

link https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/page_78/

Aug 27 07, 6:24 PM

Response last updated by CmdrK on Jul 26 2021.
Aug 27 2007, 8:18 PM
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