This document analyzes several quotations from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet that utilize figurative language. It examines Romeo's comparisons of Juliet to the sun and moon that portray her beauty through metaphors. It also discusses Romeo's feelings of exile and death without Juliet expressed through metaphors. Finally, it looks at Capulet's use of a metaphor comparing Juliet's tears to the sea and Romeo's reference to the tomb as the "womb of death" through a metaphor.

1. Quotation Technique and Analysis
Romeo: O, she doth teach the torches to burn Figurative Language Type(s):
bright./ It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ Analysis:
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—
(Act 1, scene 5)
Romeo: But soft, what light through yonder window Figurative Language Type(s):
breaks?/ It is the east and Juliet is the sun! Analysis:
(Act 2, scene 2)
Romeo: Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon/ Figurative Language Type(s):
Who is already sick and pale with grief Analysis:
(Act 2, scene 2)
Romeo: There is no world without Verona walls/ Figurative Language Type(s):
But purgatory, torture, hell itself; Hence , banished Analysis:
is banished from the world,/ And world’s exile is
death. . . Calling death „banished‟/ Thou cut’st my
head off with a golden axe/ And smilest upon that
stroke that murders me (Act 3, scene 3)
Capulet: Evermore showering? In one little body/ Figurative Language Type(s):
Thou counterfeits a bark, sea, a wind./ For still thy Analysis:
eyes, which I may call the sea,/ Do ebb and flow
with tears (Act 3, scene 5)
Romeo: Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Figurative Language Type(s):
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Analysis:
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, (Act 5,
scene 3).