Examples Of Figurative Language In Romeo And Juliet

Juliet is Angelically Beautiful Romeo is a young man, and Juliet has captured his attention with her holy beauty. Romeo and Juliet fall in love, however their families are in feuds. In soliloquy 1 in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the main character Romeo describes Juliet. He uses language that makes Juliet seem holy and beautiful; the tone of the soliloquy is angelically beautiful. The soliloquy in Act I, Scene V (1.5.51-60) in the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the tone conveys an angelic and beautiful Juliet through diction, syntax, figurative language, imagery, and detail.

In soliloquy 1, Shakespeare’s choice of words affects the tone of the soliloquy. Shakespeare’s word choices in line 54, “Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!” (1.5.54). These words set the tone of beauty by making Juliet sound overly opulent. The words ”Beauty too rich” and “too dear” make Juliet seem like the hyperbole of beauty. In addition to word choice, Shakespeare also structures, sentences to give deeper feeling to the piece. …show more content…
In soliloquy 1, Shakespeare uses the following language as an example of sentence structure, “And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.” (1.5.58). The commas around “touching hers” disrupts the flow; the sentence is not dependent on that phrase being there. This makes it seem Romeo needs to touch her hand to be blessed, by interjecting the phrase. Sentence structure enhances the tone, as well as describes Juliet as