Romeo and Juliet Literary Devices
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- Hyperbole - Ocean
- bounty is as boundless as the sea.
- Metaphor - Juliet's existence
- It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
- Personification - Earth
- And too soon marred are those so early made.The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she;
- Act 2, Scene 2, line 140Juliet's hyperbole when talking about Romeo suggests that what she has to offer Romeo is wider than the ocean itself.
- Imagery - Juliet's beauty
- So shows a dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
- Act II, Scene ii, Line 3Romeo uses a Metaphor to describe Juliet as the sun, meaning that she is essential to his life.
- Soliloquy - Friar Lawrence
- Act I, Scene ii, Lines 14-15Capulet's king uses this personification to show his sorrow regarding the marriage; it could bring happiness or sorrow to him and that Juliet is his only hope at a future generation.
- Paradox - Love
- My only love sprung from my only hate.
- Act 1, Scene 5, lines 55-56When Romeo says these lines, he imagines Juliet and how beautiful she is.
- Act II, Scene iii, Lines 16-17Friar Lawrence is making a soliloquy by talking to himself about the true nature of plants, herbs, and stones and how they can heal or help someone.
- In plants, herbs, stones, and their true qualities;For naught so vile that on the earth doth live
- Act 1, Scene 5, line 152This line is a contradicting statement, because love and hate are opposites.
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