R&J -- Literary and Dramatic Devices (2021)

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Literary device in Mercutio and Romeo's dialogue

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Pun

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Mercutio's speech about dreams and Queen Mab

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Monologue

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Nurse's monologue about Juliet's age

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Delivered to Juliet and Lady Capulet

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Device used when characters speak to each other but others can't hear

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Aside

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Device in Romeo and Benvolio's conversation

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Allusion

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Examples of: "Never was seen so black a day as this" and "And all the better is it for the maid"

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Inversion

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Example of antithesis

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Parting is such sweet sorrow

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Lower class speech in Shakespeare

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Prose

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Five feet of unstressed and stressed language

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Iambic Pentameter