What are some literary devices in Romeo and Juliet Act IV?

Answer 1

It's called an allusion, a reference to a character in another literary work or a historical character. Here we have an allusion to Virgil's Aeneid (Dido is a character in that story), Petrarch (he wrote a huge number of sonnets to Laura, a woman he loved but couldn't have because she was married to someone else), and Homer's Iliad (Helen is a character in that story). Allusion is a very common and popular literary device these days although the allusions are more likely to be to characters in Shakespeare than the characters he read about, and even more likely to be to characters in contemporary novels and films.

Answer 2

In the book Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses alot of puns, hyperbole, foreshadowing, metaphor, simile, allusion, personification, dialect, soliquoys, asides, dramatic irony, paradox . . . .

Answer 3

There are so many literary elements in Romeo and Juliet. For example, irony, setting and etc.