Romeo and Juliet Literary Devices
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- Metaphor
- It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
- Personification
- It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she.
- Simile
- My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
- Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 3-6Romeo uses the sun as a metaphor to describe Juliet showing just how in love with her he is.
- Oxymoron
- O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, A damnèd saint, an honorable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In moral paradise of such sweet flesh? Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell In such a gorgeous palace!
- Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 3-6Romeo furthers his metaphor by using personification to give the idea that the moon is a woman who is sick and envious of Juliet's beauty
- Imagery
- O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich Jewel in an Ethiop’s ear – Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o’er her fellows shows
- Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 133-136Juliet uses a simile to express her love for Romeo thus pushing the story forward now that the two have confessed their love
- Irony
- Act 3, Scene 2, Lines 79-91The oxymoron shows Juliet's conflicting feelings upon finding out that her lover, a beautiful tyrant, committed such a henious act. This tests Juliet's love for Romeo and shows the reader just how committed she is to Romeo
- Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 45-50Romeo talks about how Juliet's beauty shines very brightly which also connects with the imagery of light and darkness throughout the play. Pushing the play's contrast of love  and hate, this imagery shows how bright and passionate their love is.
- Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 1-2The irony is that although Romeo anticipates joyful news, moments later Balthasar ushers in and delivers the news of Juliet’s death. Prompting Romeo to kill himself out of his love for Juliet, who he believes also killed herself.
- If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
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