"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun." -from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" What type of figurative language is found within this literary example?

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"But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

-from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"

What type of figurative language is found within this literary example?

simile

metaphor

personification

irony

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This is PERSONIFICATION.

Javid Asgarov answered Dec 28, 2018

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it's a metaphor even slight personification.

Bhautik Patoliya answered Dec 31, 2018

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