Answer to Question #309725 in English for stark

Question

QUESTIONS:

1) What figure of speech is used in the line, "Who is already sick and pale with grief" in Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet balcony scene?

2) What figure of speech is used in the line, "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" in Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet balcony scene?

3) What figure of speech is used in the line, "Be not her maid since she is envious" in Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet balcony scene?

4) What figure of speech is used in the line, "Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon" in Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet balcony scene?

5) What figure of speech is used in the line, "Her vestal livery is but sick and green" in Act II, Scene II, Romeo and Juliet balcony scene?

Answer 1

1) Personification; Romeo personifies the moon, calling it “sick and pale with grief” at the fact that Juliet, the sun, is far brighter and more beautiful.

2) Metaphor; Romeo begins by using the sun as a metaphor for his beloved Juliet: “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. In these same lines Romeo has furthered his metaphor by using personification.

3) Romeo uses a metaphor to compare Juliet's window to the east, where the sun rises, and he develops this metaphor into another metaphor, by which he compares Juliet to the sun itself.

4) Personification; gives human qualities to the moon. It is envious (jealous).

5) Personification; Romeo compares Juliet's beauty to the sun and says the moon (representing darkness) looks sick and green because it is jealous of her. An example of a metaphor: “But, soft!