What are the rhetorical devices in Romeo and Juliet act 1?

Answer 1

One of the rhetorical devices used in Act 1, specifically in Scene 1, of Romeo and Juliet is personification. The dialogue goes, "Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathaways to his will!" Love was likened to a person with a muffled view.

Answer 2

In Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet, some rhetorical devices used include:

1. Oxymoron - e.g. "loving hate" and "cold fire" in Romeo's dialogue.
2. Metaphor - e.g. "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun" in Romeo's soliloquy.
3. Alliteration - e.g. "O brawling love, o loving hate" in the prologue.
4. Personification - e.g. "The earth hath swallowed all my hopes but she."

These are just a few examples of the rhetorical devices used in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet.

Answer 3

You should know that every edition of Romeo and Juliet numbers the lines differently, so giving line numbers may direct you to the wrong passage. According to one source, these are the lines you are talking about:

• Benvolio: I, measuring his affections by my own,
  That most are busied when they're most alone,
  Pursued my humour not pursuing his,
  And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from me.
• Montague: Many a morning hath he there been seen,
  With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew.

Benvolio's speech contains three examples of parallel structure: "most are busied/most alone", "pursued my humour not pursuing his" and "gladly shunn'd/gladly fled". Note the hyperbaton/anastrophe so common in Shakespeare as he tries to get his lines into the iambic rhythm, particularly Montague's "many a morning hath he there been seen" rather than the natural syntax "He hath been seen there many a morning" but also Benvolio's "that most are busied" rather than "that are busied most". Montague's tears which augment the dew is a personification.

Answer 4

what are the figre of speech in romeo and julirt

Answer 5

On every single page. It starts with a personification ("do with their deaths bury their parents' strife") and ends with another ("the sun for sorrow will not show his head")

Answer 6

Do you mean "These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder which as they kiss consume."? That's a simile.

Answer 7

Lots of metaphors and similes. Personifications are fairly common too. "Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon . . ."