What similes does Romeo use to convey Juliet's beauty?

Ais a
comparison of two unlike things using the words like or as. The comparison tends to enhance the
qualities of one of those things. Immediately after seeingat Capulet's party in ,compares her
beauty (it is definitely her looks he is speaking of here because he has yet to meet her) to a
precious jewel:

It seems she hangs upon the cheek of
night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiops ear

This
comparison needs a bit of explanation because one might not understand what Romeo is speaking
of. It was probably common in Renaissance Italy for men from Ethiopia to act as traders and to
visit Italian cities. Romeo may have seen just such a man, or maybe read about them. These
Ethiopians were often wealthy and would have adorned themselves in elaborate jewelry such as
diamonds, emeralds or rubies.

 

Later, in , Romeo
once again uses a simile to describe Juliet. Here he may also be speaking of her personality and
not just her beauty because he has spoken to her briefly in the waning moments of Capulet's
party. He compares her to an angel coming down from heaven as a messenger to bring happiness and
light to Romeo's life (which, by his own admittance, had been darkened by his unrequited love
for Rosaline):

O, speak again, bright
angel, for thou art
As glorious to this night, being oer my head,
As is a
wing¨d messenger of heaven

This comparison to a "bright angel" is very in much in keeping with
Shakespeare's recurring motif of light and dark which pervades the .