Romeo and Juliet: Act 3 Literary Devices

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"wedded to calamity"

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personification

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Character that contrasts another

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Foil

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"no. tis not so deep as a well, nor as wide as a church door"

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simile

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Figure of speech: Animal/Object/Idea as human

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Personification

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beautiful tyrant

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oxymoron

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Literary reference to another work

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Allusion

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"indeed i never shall be satisfied with Romeo till i behold him---dead--"

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Verbal Irony

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Contrast between audience perception and character knowledge

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Dramatic irony

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"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb"

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Foreshadowing

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Soliloquy

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Lengthy speech by a character alone on stage, expressing thoughts aloud.