pun
Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man." - Mercutio, Act III scene i
metaphor
O, I have bought the mansion of love but not possessed it." - Juliet, Act III scene ii
oxymoron
O serpent heart hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven, wolfish-ravening lamb!" - Juliet, Act III, scene ii
personification
Come, cords--come Nurse. I'll to my wedding bed, and death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!" - Juliet, Act III scene ii
personification
Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death,' for exile hath more terror in his look, much more than death. Do not say 'banishment.'" - Romeo, Act III scene iii
hyperbole
I must hear from thee every day in the hour, for in a minute there are many days. O, by this count I shall be much in years ere I again behold my Romeo." - Juliet, Act III, scene v
foreshadowing
O God, I have an ill-divining soul! Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb. Either my eyesight fails or thou lookest pale." - Juliet, Act III, scene v
personification
Happiness courts thee in her best array." - Friar Lawrence, Act III, scene iii
light and dark imagery
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night" - Romeo, Act I scene v
light and dark imagery
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp." - Romeo, Act II scene ii
light and dark imagery
Come night. Come Romeo. Come thou day in night,
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back." - Juliet, Act III scene ii
paradox
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power.
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, stays all senses with the heart.
To such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs-g
simile
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite." - Juliet, Act II scene ii
metaphor
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the East, and Juliet is the sun." - Romeo, Act II scene ii
personification
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief." - Romeo, Act II scene ii
oxymoron
Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created!" - Romeo, Act I scene i
foreshadowing
I fear too early, for my mind misgives
some consequence hanging in the stars
shall bitterly begin his fearful date" - Romeo, Act I scene iv
foreshadowing
These violent delight have violent ends
and in their triumph die, like fire and powder
Which, as they kiss, consume." -Friar Lawrence, Act II scene iv
foreshadowing
A plague o' both your houses!" - Mercutio, Act III scene i
light and dark imagery
And when I shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no attention to the garish sun." -Juliet, Act III scene ii
light and dark imagery
Yon light is not daylight; I know it, I.
It is some meteor that the sun exhales
To be to thee this night a torchbearer,
And light thee on thy way to Mantua." - Juliet, Act III scene v
light and dark imagery
It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east." - Romeo, Act III scene v
alliteration
A gentler judgement vanished from his lips: not body's death, but body's banishment." - Friar Lawrence, Act III scene iii
dramatic irony
In Act II is that in Scene 1 and 4, Mercutio and Benvolio think Romeo is still pining over Rosaline, but the audience knows he is over her and has moved on to Juliet.
situational irony
In Act II, Scene I of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo goes to the Capulet's Ball with the intention of meeting Rosaline. ... So, when Mercutio and Benvolio see Romeo sneaking behind the Capulet house; they both except Romeo to be seeing Rosaline. Romeo, however,