“How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” In texts, authors use multiple literary techniques to develop tones and moods for the text. These techniques include figurative language. William Shakespeare wrote numerous plays throughout his life, and these plays have lasted centuries because of the messages they portray to the audience. Shakespeare’s works have multiple forms of figurative language. This helps to develop the moods and tones of his plays. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses different figurative language such as similes, metaphors, and allusions to help develop urgent and devoted tones, and a bittersweet mood in act 2, scene 2. One of the many forms of figurative language