Literary Devices In Romeo And Juliet

The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is one of his most famous plays he had ever written. William Shakespeare used literary devices on his plays. All the literary devices are beneficial to the play. The three literary devices that I’m going to talk about are soliloquy, monologue, and allusion. A soliloquy is when a character talks to himself in a long lengthy speech. A monologue is sort of the same except the character is giving the speech to another character rather than itself. The last literary device that I’m going to talk about is allusion. Allusion is a reference to a person, place, thing or idea from a historical, literary, or political significance. Furthermore we will continue the next paragraph with soliloquy.

“What’s in a name?/That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet,” Juliet stated (Act. II Sc 2 L. 43-44). Juliet spoke to herself when she said this quote. When she was stating the quote she was thinking about Romeo’s name. Soliloquies are easy to identify since the characters keep their thoughts to themselves. Moreover monologue is the next literary device we will talk about. In almost all of William Shakespeare’s play he will use monologue. “O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?,” Juliet commented, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name! / Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a capulet.” (Act, II, Sc 2, L. 33-36). This monologue was from Juliet and she was referring this to Romeo. Monologues are when the character reveals their thoughts to another character. On the other hand we have one more literary device