Question

What figure of speech is used in these lines from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?

But all so soon as the all-cheering sun

Should in the furthest east begin to draw

The shady curtains from Aurora's bed,

Away from the light steals home my heavy son,

And private in his chamber pens himself,

Shuts up his windows, locks far daylight out

And makes himself an artificial night:

Black and portentous must this humour prove,

Unless good counsel may the cause remove.


simile

allusion

oxymoron

pun

Answer 1

Personification is used in the first 3 lines, because it is a giving a non-human thing human characteristics.

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Answer 2

I believe the correct answer is allusion.
Shakespeare is mentioning Aurora in these lines, and given that Aurora is not a character from Romeo and Juliet, but rather just a reference to something outside the play, the correct figure of speech has to be allusion.
There are no similes in this excerpt - a simile is a comparison using words such as like or as. Oxymoron is when you put together contradictory terms, and here we cannot see that. Puns are play on words, and even though Shakespeare is famous for his puns, they are more common in his comedies rather than tragedies.