Romeo and Juliet Act 1

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"Sick health," "heavy lightness," "still-waking sleep," "feather of lead"

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Oxymorons

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"Love is a smoke, made with the fume of sighs"

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Metaphor

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"Is love a tender thing? It is too rough..."

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Example of: Personification

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"[love] pricks like a thorn"

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simile

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"Dreams are the children of an idle brain"

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Metaphor

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"My only love, sprung from my only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late."

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Example of couplet

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Mercutio's description of Queen Mab

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Imagery

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Literary device for hinting future events

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Foreshadowing

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First act of Shakespeare's plays opens with:

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Prologue

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Prologue reveals:

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Lovers from feuding families will die