Shakespeare is a skillful author when it comes to figurative language, he composes his work to appear as one thing but, simultaneously mean something else. In the play, Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare uses heaps of figurative language to hint the dramatic impulse of the story. Romeo and Juliet is about two families, the Montagues, and Capulets both are mortal enemies who hate each other and has hated each other for years. Romeo who is in the Montagues family falls for the Capulet's daughter Juliet in a matter of hours of meeting each other they get married. As the story unfolds the two lovebirds take their own lives in the hands of suicide.” These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder which, as they kiss, consume.” Shakespeare uses this alluring quote in Romeo and Juliet, to make the reader have to read it again to try and figure out what he is meaning. The figurative …show more content…
As she goes on with how she is embarrassed that he overheard her and she also is asking if Romeo actually loves her. “Therefore, pardon me, and not impute this yielding to light, love, which the dark night hath so discovered.” No, she is not saying there is a yield light popping in front of them, she is actually saying, I am leaving and that she doesn't want Romeo to think that her loving him so quick means her love for him isn't true. This is also an example of a metaphor because she is comparing the quick love she has for Romeo like a yielding