Figurative Language Practice

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Figurative Language Practice

Quote / Figurative Language Used / ______is being compared to ______. (explain the figurative language used/ the comparison made)
Romeo: Love is smoke made with the fume of sights. (Act 1 Scene 1)
Romeo: One fairer than my love! The all seeing sun / Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun (Act 1 Scene 2)
Romeo: O she doth teaches the torch to burn bright / It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / as a rich jewel in Ethiop’s ear. (Act 1 Scene 5)
Romeo:"My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand"(Act 1, scene 5)
Nurse: "he's a man of wax" (Act 1, scene 3)
Romeo: "Is love a tender thing? It is too rough,
Too rude, too boist'rous, and it pricks like thorn" (Act 1 Scene 5)
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love; prick love for pricking, and you beat love down." (Act 1 Scene 4)

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