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foreshadowing
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Through hints the ending of the story is suggested to the audience.
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A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life; / Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parents strife.
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oxymoron
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Contain two contradictory words or terms that, when put together, give rise to interesting ideas.
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'Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!' (2.2.75)
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pun
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A play on word sounds and similarities between words that gives rise to different meanings.
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'Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.' (3.1.100-1)
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hyperbole
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Exaggeration
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'Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye / Than twenty of their swords." (2.2.75-76)
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tone
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Describes the emotional message of the text.
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The tone of Romeo's speech about Rosaline is extremely melodramatic as indicated through his decription of himself as the living dead: "She hath forsworn to love, / Do I live dead that live to tell it now." (1.1.223-224)
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extended metaphor
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Also called a conceit, is a metaphor that continues into the sentences that follow. It is often developed at great length, occurring frequently in school coursework and in other literature, and is often especially effective in poems and fiction.
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Friar Lawrence's reflection upon the proximity of life and death giving substances in nature just prior to Romeo's request to be married to Juliet, is an extended metaphor that ties in with the Prologue: "Within the infant rind of this weak flower / Poison hath residence, and medicine power." (2.3.23-24); See also "These violent delights have violent ends" (2.6.9)
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dramatic irony
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This occurs when the audience know something before the characters in the play.
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The audience is probably aware of Mercurio's fatal imjury before his friends are; the audience knows that Juliet is alive when Romoe kills himself.
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imagery
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Concrete descriptions which appeal to the senses so that the reader can see or sense what is being written about
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"Look, love, what envious streaks / Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east: / Night's candles are burnt out." (3.5.7-9)
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contrast
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To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences; to show differences when compared.
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Romeo laments "More light and light, more dark and dark our woes!" when reluctantly leaving Juliet after their night together. (3.5.35)
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sonnet
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A 14 line poem divided into three quatrains and a concluding couplet; usually containing an argument.
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Romeo argues Juliet into giving him a kiss upon their first meeting. (1.5.92-105)
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