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Metaphor one:"You are a saucy boy" This is saying that tybalt is hotheaded.

 

Metaphor two: "you  are a princox" This is scolding Tybalt, because he wants to start a fight in their party.

 

Metaphor three:"two blushing pilgrims" Romeo was comparing his lips to blushing pilgrims, which were pukered up, ready to kiss Juliet.

 

Simile one: "Like a rich jewel in an Ethiopes ear" It was explaining how Romeo was comparing a jewel to Juliet, signifying her beauty.

 

Simile two: "Scaring the ladies like a crow-keeper" This is saying that they are going to do things that will scar the women emotionaly.

 

Similie three: "for thou art as glorious to this night" This is saying that Romeo is comparing Juliet to the glorious night which is beautiful, warm, and stary.

 

Personification one:"Come, vial." Juliet is talking to the vile, as if it were living.

 

Personification two: "Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?No, no: this shall forbid it: lie thou there." This is another time she is talking to a inatamite object like a person

 

Personification three: "the frowning night" This time, the friar says the night is frowning, which of coure it cant frown, but his emotions are speaking.

 

Iorny one: "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch." Mercutio is saying it is nothing, when he is really hurt, and is almost dying, but he is still joking.

 

Iorny two: "a white wench's black eye" It says a white wench, but that white wench has a dark black eye, which is very contrasting

 

Iorny three: "the very butcher of a silkbutton."  This is saying that tybalt is the killer of everything beautiful and pretty.

 

Oxymoron one: "love's weak childish bow" It is saying that love is weak, when it is really strong, but she is able to repel it.

 

Oxymoron two: "O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!"  This is saying that Romeo has good looks, but a bad heart.

 

Oxymororn Three: " Beautiful tyrant!" This is saying again that he is handsome, but evil.

 

Hyperbole one: "that one word 'banished,'Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts."  This is saying that Romeos banishment is equivilent to ten-thousand dead Tybalts.

 

Hyperbole two: " What less than dooms-day." This is saying that the punishment bestowed by the prince is like doomsday.

 

Hyperbole three: "Ha, banishment! be merciful, say 'death;"  Romeo is saying that banishment is as bad as death.

 

Dialect one: "Hence from Verona art thou banished." The prince is saying that Romeo is banished from verona.

 

dialect two: "Romeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man." It is saying that Romeo should stop being a baby and be brave.

 

dialect three: "For exile hath more terror in his look," Romeo is saying that exile is worse than death.

 

 

 

 

 

Figurative language

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