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Tennis Match
Metaphor
Act 2,
Scene 5
Lines 12-15

A tennis metaphor describing the nurse in myShakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 5.

Juliet

Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me. But old folks, many feign as they were dead;

In Juliet’s tennis metaphor, the nurse is like a tennis ball being hit back and forth between the two lovers. Each time they strike the ball, they impart their words of love to be carried to the other person.