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‘prettiest babe I ever saw.’ Nurse is more like a mother to Juliet:

‘You are to blame my Lord.’ Nurse stands up to Lord Capulet for Juliet:

‘Tis not hard I think for men as old as we to keep the peace. Lord Capulet on Montague:

‘My child is yet a stranger in the world.’ Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage:

‘Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.’ Personification: ‘Earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she.’ Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage

‘Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart. My will to her consent is but a part.’ Lord Capulet to Paris on arranging Juliet’s marriage

‘My fingers itch.’ Lord Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris:

‘And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang! Beg! Starve! Die in the streets!’ Lord Capulet when Juliet refuses to marry Paris:

‘I do but keep the peace.’ Benvolio on the fight at the start of the play

‘Blind is his [Romeo’s] love and best befits the dark. Benvolio on Romeo’s love for Rosaline:

‘I pray thee, good Mercutio, let's retire. The day is hot, the Capels abroad, And if we meet we shall not 'scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.’ Benvolio foreshadowing Tybalt, Mercutio and Romeo’s fight

Metaphor: ‘But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!’ Light imagery used by Romeo to describe Juliet:

‘My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late!’ Juliet on finding out Romeo is a Montague:

‘O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.’ Juliet before her death:

‘Why, then, o brawling love, o loving hate.’ (1. 1) - oxymoron Romeo on his love for Rosaline

‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls. ’ (2 ‘With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.’ (2.2) - alliteration Romeo on his love for Juliet

‘Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. ’ (3 ‘Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!’ (3.1) – alliteration, personification Romeo on Tybalt:

‘Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him. ’ (3 ‘Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.’ (3.1) – no positive outcomes Romeo to Tybalt after Mercutio’s death:

‘Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death’, For exile hath more terror in his look.’ (3.3) – rhetorical question, personification Romeo to Friar Lawrence on being separated from Juliet due to banishment:

‘‘What, drawn, and talk of peace ‘‘What, drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee’ (1.1 p.37) Tybalt in the fight at the start of the play

‘I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall.’ Tybalt on Romeo attending the Capulet’s ball:

‘Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me’ Tybalt to Romeo

‘O calm, dishonourable, vile submission’ Mercutio on Romeo not fighting back with Tybalt:

‘No 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.’ Mercutio’s use of humour to describe his fatal wound - his appeal as a comic character:

‘If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking and you beat love down.’ Mercutio mocking conventions of love: metaphor of love as a rose with thorns