What literary techniques does Shakespeare use in Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

Dramatic and sorrowful

Answer 2

allusion contrast connotation denotation diction fairy tale figurative language flashback foreshadowing imagery in medias res (latin word) irony juxataposition metaphor extended metaphor mood onomatopoeia parody pathos (greek word) personification simile stereotype suspence symbolism prologue epilogue soliloquy exposition hyperbole

Answer 3

Here are a few:

1. And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly. / This is the truth, or let Benvolio die. (III.i.171-172) couplet
2. Oh, find him! Give this ring to my true knight, / And bid him come to take his last farewell. (III.ii.143-144) foreshadowing
3. Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man's tomb! (V.ii.29) oxymoron
4. For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night / Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. (III.ii.18-19) personification
5. But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? / It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. (II.ii.2-3) metaphor
6. Indeed, I never shall be satisfied / With Romeo, till I behold him-dead- (III.v.92-93) dramatic irony
7. Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw love, / And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. allusion
8. These violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / Which, as they kiss, consume… (II.vi.9-11) simile
9. O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? (II.ii33) apostrophe
10. With purple fountains issuing from your veins, / On pain of torture, from those bloody hands / Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground. / (I.i.79-81) imagery
11. It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a jewel in rich Ethiope's ear simile
12. Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move pun
13. Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, / O anything of nothing first created! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity, / misshapen chaos of wee-seeming forms. oxymoron

Answer 4

• hyperbolic language
• similes
• dramatic irony
• foreshadowing
• iambic pentameter

i'd be more specific but the question wasn't specific enough, so this is about as much as i can offer, sorry -_-'

Answer 5

There is Lots:

Situational Irony:

"Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee, And never from this palace of dim night Depart again. Here, here will I remain With worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, here Will I set up my everlasting rest,"

Act 5 Scene 3 Lines 110-119

Tragedy:

Prince, here lies Count Paris killed.

And Romeo dead. And Juliet. She was dead before,

but now she's warm and hasn't been dead for long.

"(Act 5, Scene 3, Lines 210-212)

Answer 6

Scholar Caroline Spurgen once wrote, "The dominating image [in Romeo and Juliet] is light, every form and manifestation of it" (Shakespeare's Imagery, 310). When Romeo initially sees Juliet, he compares her immediately to the brilliant light of the torches and tapers that illuminate Capulet's great hall: " O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!" (1.4.46). Juliet is the light that frees him from the darkness of his perpetual melancholia. In the famous balcony scene Romeo associates Juliet with sunlight, "It is the east and Juliet is the sun!" (2.2.3), daylight, "The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars/As daylight doth a lamp" (2.2.20-1), and the light emanating from angels, "O speak again bright angel" (2.2.26). In turn, Juliet compares their new-found love to lightening (2.2.120), primarily to stress the speed at which their romance is moving, but also to suggest that, as the lightening is a glorious break in the blackness of the night sky, so too is their love a flash of wondrous luminance in an otherwise dark world -- a world where her every action is controlled by those around her. When the Nurse does not arrive fast enough with news about Romeo, Juliet laments that love's heralds should be thoughts "Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams/Driving back shadows over lowering hills" (2.5.4-5). Here, the heralds of love that will bring comforting news about her darling are compared to the magical and reassuring rays of sun that drive away unwanted shadows. Juliet also equates Romeo and the bond that they share with radiant light. In a common play on words, she begs Romeo to "not impute this yielding to light love/Which the dark night hath so discovered" (2.2.105-6), again comparing their mutual feelings of love to bright and comforting light . Having no fear of the darkness, Juliet proclaims that night canTake [Romeo] and cut him out into little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garrish sun. (3.2.23-6)

Here Romeo, transformed into shimmering immortality, becomes the very definition of light, outshining the sun itself. However, despite all the aforementioned positive references to light in the play, it ultimately takes on a negative role, forcing the lovers to part at dawn:Romeo. It was the lark, the herald of the morn,No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaksDo lace the severing clouds in yonder east.Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund dayStands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops.I must be gone and live, or stay and die. (3.5.6-11)

Answer 7

In Act 2 Scene 2: "The lady shall say her mind freely, or the blank verse shall halt for it."

Answer 8

star-crossed lovers

Answer 9

hi i rock