“MOM, WHERE’S THE DRESS I JUST BOUGHT?” Yes, that is the attitude of a 14-year-old yelling at her mother, but maybe if it were said a bit calmer you would assume there is not an attitude. This is not what we call tone the way you and others perceive the tone of your voice, for example Joyful, sad, and Sincere. My point is that the most influential literary device in the poem Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is tone. Romeo and Juliet are a tragedy unfolding in, sorrow, and, the upcoming relationship between the children of two different gangs, the Capulets and the Monotogues. Tone helps the readers feel and empathize with the characters in this play Romeo is one of the two main characters who is depressed in the beginning of the Poem when talking to his close friend he whom he rarely opens his emotions he states “Bid a sick man in sadness make a word ill urged to one that is so ill in sadness because I do love a woman” (Shakespeare, 705) in other words when saying the word sadness not only does this show the emotional side of misery