Examples Of Literary Devices In Romeo And Juliet

Adyson Feddeler

Mr.Spinks

English 9/1st Hour

13 February 2023

Literary Devices(Working Title)

In this astonishing play it shows the audience about the struggles of two teenage kids falling deeply in love but the two lovers are not allowed to be together because of the unknown rivalry between the two families; Capulet and Montague. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play that was written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century who got the concept of writing the tragic love story from Arthur's Brookes story called, The Tragicall Historye of Romeo and Juliet which was released in 1562. In the play it is a tragic love story where the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are supposed to be sworn enemies because of their last names but they

In act 5 Scene 3 the Prince mentions,

Their course of love, the tiding of her death;

And here he writes that he did buy a poison

Of a poor `pothecary, and therewithal

Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet(5. 3. 286-295).

This scene gives the reader a sign that a tragedy has just appeared because of the way he describes “their course of love” in the play. Therefore, in Romeo and Juliet the play gives a tragedy to the readers about their love in order to give the readers emotion and feel sympathy for the characters.

A soliloquy is a speech given by a character alone on stage, and in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet soliloquies in this play usually have the characters openly talking about their feelings and opinions. In act 3 scene 2 Juliet waits patiently in the night she speaks,

Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;

Give me my romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the would be in love with

That is while Romeo is watching Juliet on the balcony he speaks with such eagerness, “Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this,” (2.2.37). In this quote Romeo is speaking like he is asking the audience what he shall do about Juliet talking so fondly of him. Therefore, an aside in a story will be seen quite often as it reveals a character's private thoughts to the