Star cross'd lovers and death mark'd love are examples of metaphors? No they are not. "Bury their parents' strife" maybe. There are no similes in the prologue.
"Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" The use of "hands" here is of course a synecdoche. "Blood" is used as a metaphor for guilt. "Bury their parents' strife" Burying is a metaphor for disposing of anything, even a disagreement.
Death and Love. Usually one does not associate love with death
The deaths of Romeo and Juliet
The narrator
(Prolouge line #. )
"Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean" The use of "hands" here is of course a synecdoche. "Blood" is used as a metaphor for guilt. "Bury their parents' strife" Burying is a metaphor for disposing of anything, even a disagreement.
"My lips, two blushing pilgrims"; "he's a man of wax."
Death and Love. Usually one does not associate love with death
The deaths of Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The narrator
(Prolouge line #. )
In the play "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare uses a prologue to set the scene and provide background information. Many novels, such as "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen, start with a prologue that introduces the main characters or themes. Some movies, like "Star Wars: A New Hope," begin with a prologue that gives context to the story before the main plot starts.
The Prologue. There is a second prologue just before Act 2.
The Prologue, then Sampson, then Gregory.
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