Literary Elements In Romeo And Juliet

Language in Romeo and Juliet According to absoluteshakespeare.com William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays and 154 Sonnets. During the time he wrote those 37 plays he developed some 1700 new words and therefore learning to use new literary elements. Shakespeare was a talented script writer that throughout his work used many types of Literary Elements. All these have been shown throughout his books through the way he makes you feel the connection between characters in his writing. I found in the Balcony scene of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet he uses three literary elements drastically: oxymorons, juxtaposition, similes, and personification.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. A juxtaposition is the same thing but when the contradictory terms are farther apart not next to each other. Romeo and Juliet uses oxymorons and juxtapositions to show their love. A time where Shakespeare shows the oxymoron literary element to describe these characters feelings is when Romeo is leaving Juliet on the Balcony and says “Parting is such sweet sorrow.”(2.2.199-200) Therefore when Shakespeare has Romeo watching the balcony of Juliet Romeo says “She speaks, yet she says nothing”(II.II.12)This quote gives a …show more content…
All throughout the book and especially this scene similes play an important role in the relation the two kids have. When Juliet leaves the balcony and Romeo is left to convey is love to Juliet through the poetry William Shakespeare writes he says “love goes toward love, as schoolboys toward their books.”(II.II. 159-160). According to Patrick William Alban of the Spring Lake High School Lacrosse team “It gives you a good way to picture the way that characters like Romeo and Juliet are acting throughout the whole book” This, therefore, furthers my thesis by providing another opinion of how this language makes him feel and understand the book much