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Figurative Language In Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliets is a tragic love story but it is the meaning behind the words that made it such a beautiful play. Romeo and Juliet’s dreadful events took place in Verona. Juliet born into the Capulet family and Romeo being a Montague destined to be enemies but fall deeply in love. The audience knows the love between the characters because of the significance behind Shakespeare’s dialogue. When Juliet has temporary died dramatic irony is introduced to the storyline because the audience learn that Juliet is alive but Romeo and the nurse are devastated and felt a great loss. Nurse has come to awaken Juliet since it was planned that she marry Paris but instead Nurse found her dead in her bedroom. The Nurse states, “I must needs wake you. Lady! Lady! Lady!-/ Alas, alas! Help, help! My lady’s dead!/ O, weraday, that ever I was born!/ Some aqua vitae, ho! My lord! My lady!”(4.5.13-16). Given that Shakespeare’s uses literary elements dramatic irony is presented in the scene because the audience perceives she is not deceased. Also shows the love between Nurse and Juliet because of how worried she was for Juliet. …show more content…

Romeo is using a metaphor to compare Juliet’s voice to lovely music. In Romeo and Juliet states, “How silver-sweet sound lovers’ tongues by night,/ Like softest music to attending ears”(2.2. 167-168). As a result from this metaphor the reader can fully grasp an image of Juliet and Romeo’s affection towards her. In the same scene Romeo says that with her beauty she will kill the envious moon. In the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet states, “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,/ Who is already sick and pale with grief”(2.2. 4-5). In other words Romeo has illustrated the beauty of Juliet and the inclination he has for his lover, Juliet.The reader can illustrate Juliet because of the personification and metaphors that Romeo

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