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A Plague O' Both Your houses!

young men's love then lies

Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

He's a man of wax

I am Fortune's Fool

Metonymy

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Hyperbole

“There is no world without Verona walls, / But purgatory, torture, hell itself.

The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, / As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven / Would through the airy region stream so bright / That birds would sing and think it were not night.”

Go ask his name: if he be married.

My grave is like to be my wedding bed.

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Paradox

Deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace

Book containing such vile matter so fairly bound

Friar Laurence tells Romeo & Juliet to slow down while conducting their nuptials.

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Personification

Arise, fair sun and kill the envious moon

The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night

Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir

Affliction is enamored in thy parts

and thou art wedded to calamity

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Puns

"Romeo and Juliet" begins with a triple pun on the word collier (coal vendor) which sound like choler (anger) and collar (hangman's noose). (I,i,1-4)

Here are some others:

...dreamers often lie.

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. (I,iv,4-6)

Where, underneath the grove of sycamore

That westward rooteth from the city's side,

So early walking did I see your son:

When we first meet Romeo has a broken heart. He is “love sick”. Syc-amore (“amore” in Italian means love).

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Dramatic Irony

When the audience knows something that the characters don’t know. Almost ALL of the drama that Shakespeare creates throughout the play is through dramatic irony. We, the audience, always know more than the characters do.

We know Tybalt plans on killing Romeo, but Romeo is unaware of this.