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“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”

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Speaker: Chorus
Speaking too: audience
Literary device: Foreshadowing
Significance to plot/characters: tells us that Romeo and Juliet will eventually die

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“Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at / them, which is a disgrace to them if they bear it”

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Speaker: Sampson
Speaking too: gregory
Literary device: person to person conflict
Significance to plot/characters: tells us that bitting your thumb is an insult

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“Many a morning hath he there been seen, With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew, Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs”

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Speaker: Montague
Speaking too: benvolio
Literary device: personification
Significance to plot/characters: shows us that he is sad and the weather outside is very gloomy

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“O brawling love, O loving hate”

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Benvolio
Literary device: Oxymoron
Significance to plot/characters: Shows us he is sad and is madly in love with Rosaline

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“Well in that hit you miss. She’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit, And, in strong proof of chastity well armed”

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: benvolio
Literary device: Allusion
Significance to plot/characters:

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“The all-seeing sun / Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun” (1.2 99-100).

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Benvolio
Literary device: Personification
Significance to plot/characters: The sun is doing a human characteristic

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“But in that crystal scales let there be weighed / Your lady’s love against some other maid”

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Speaking: Benvolio
Speaking too: Romeo
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters:

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“Verona’s summer hath not such a flower.” (1.3 83)

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Speaking: Lady Capulet
Speaking too: Juliet
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters: comparing a flower to Paris

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“Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face, / And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen”

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Speaking: Lady Capulet
Speaking too: Juliet
Literary device: personification
Significance to plot/characters:

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“I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.” (1.4 15-16)

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Mercutio
Literary device: hyperbole
Significance to plot/characters: His soul is actually not as heavy as lead

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“You are a lover. Borrow Cupid’s wings / And soar with them above a common bound.”

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Speaking: Mercutio
Speaking too: Romeo
Literary device: allusion
Significance to plot/characters: mentions cupid’s wings

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“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, / Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like a thorn”

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Mercutio
Literary device: simile
Significance to plot/characters: uses like making it a simile. Shows how heartbroken Romeo is

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“For my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels, and expire the term / Of a despisèd life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death” (1.4 113-118)

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Benvolio
Literary device: Foreshadowing
Significance to plot/characters: He said his untimely death hinting that he will die soon. This shows why Romeo may regret his decision to go to the party

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“So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows” (1.5 55).

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Himself
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters: Snowy doves are given the human characters of trooping. Tella us how beautiful Juliet is

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“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!”

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: himself
Literary device: personification
Significance to plot/characters: he says did my heart love till now meaning he found true love. It shows us that Romeo is head over heels I love with Juliet

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“My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand” (1.5 106)

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: Juliet
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters:

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“Prodigious birth of love it is to me, / That I must love a loathèd enemy

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Speaking: Juliet
Speaking too: herself
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters:

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Act 2

“Can I go forward when my heart is here? / Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out” (2.1 1-2).

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too: himself
Literary device: hyperbole
Significance to plot/characters: he cannot move forward with his love when it is with this girl

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“Blind is his love and best befits the dark”

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Speaking: Benvolio
Speaking too: Mercutio
Literary device: Metaphor
Significance to plot/characters: showing that Romeo loves this girl so much but will not talk to her proving his love is better in the dark

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“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

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Speaking: Romeo
Speaking too:himself but reffering too Juliet
Literary device: hyperbole
Significance to plot/characters:saying how pretty Juliet is referring her to the sun and it’s amazing features

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“The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars / As daylight doth a lamp”

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Speaking:Romeo
Speaking too: Juliet
Literary device: Simile
Significance to plot/characters: Romeo is saying that the brightness of her cheek to others is like comparing a lamp to the stars.

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“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet”

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Speaking: Juliet
Speaking too: Romeo
Liteary device: Simile
Significance to plot/characters: This quote shows that Juliet compared Romeo too a rose from how handsome he is.

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“With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls”

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Speaking:Romeo
Speaking too: Juliet
Literary device: Hyperbole
Significance to plot/characters: it’s showing that his love for Juliet is so strong that not even big stone walls can stop it.

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“Yet if thou swear’st / Thou mayst prove false. At lovers’ perjuries, / They say, Jove laughs”

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Speaking: Juliet
Speaking too: Romeo
Literary device: Allusion

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“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep. The more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: shows us how Juliet is deeply in love with Romeo
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“The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, / Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, / And fleckled darkness like a drunkard reels / From forth day’s path and Titan’s fiery wheels”
Speaking: FRIAR LAWRENCE Speaking too: himself Literary device: personification Significance to plot/characters:
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“Two such opposèd kings encamp them still, / In man as well as herbs—grace and rude will”
speaking : FRIAR LAWRENCE Speaking too: himself Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters:
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“Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. / Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit / Of an old tear that is not washed off yet”
Speaking: Friar Laurence Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: hyperbole Significance to plot/characters:
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Alas, poor Romeo! He is already dead, / stabbed with a white wench’s black eye, / run through the ear with a love song, the very pin of his / heart cleft”
Speaking: Mercutio Speaking too: Benvolio Literary device: hyperbole Significance to plot/characters:
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“I anger her sometimes / and tell her that Paris is the properer man. But, I’ll / warrant you, when I say so, she looks as pale as any / clout in the versal world”
Speaking: Nurse Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: Simile Significance to plot/characters:
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“Had she affections and warm youthful blood, / She would be as swift in motion as a ball. / My words would bandy her to my sweet love, / And his to me”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: herself Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: Juliet is saying if the nurse was young she would be more swift and she would understand Juliets and Romeos love
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“He is not the flower of courtesy, / but, I’ll warrant him, as gentle as a lamb”
Speaking: Nurse Speaking too: Juliet Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: the nurse is telling Juliet that she does not think he is perfect for her but if she does decided to marry him she will take care of him.
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“So smile the heavens upon this holy act / That after-hours with sorrow chide us not”
Speaking: FRIAR LAWRENCE. Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: foreshadowing/ personification Significance to plot/characters: He is warning Romeo that something bad may happen if he goes on with the marriage considering they have only known each other for a day.
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“A lover may bestride the gossamers / That idles in the wanton summer air, / And yet not fall. So light is vanity”
Speaking: FRIAR LAWRENCE. Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: Mataphor Significance to plot/characters: He is saying if there love is too weak it could break easter than a spider web
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“They are but beggars that can count their worth. / But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: Metaphor Significance to plot/characters:
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“Thy head is as full of quarrels as / an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been / beaten as addle as an egg for quarreling”
Speaking: Metcutio Speaking too: bevolio Literary device:Simile Significance to plot/characters: it is saying that he is as useless as an addle egg
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“I do protest I never injured thee, / But love thee better than thou canst devise, / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. / And so, good Capulet—which name I tender / As dearly as my own—be satisfied”
Speaker: Romeo Speaking too: Tybalt Literary device:dramatic irony Significance to plot/characters:
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“No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as / a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve”
Speaking: Mercutio Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: Simile Significance to plot/characters: Mercutio is talking about his large wound and how it is so big he will die by tomorrow
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“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend / This but begins the woe others must end”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Benvolio Literary device: foreshadowing Significance to plot/characters: Romeo says that fate more days are too come referring to him and Juliet.
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“Romeo, / Who had but newly entertained revenge, / And to ’t they go like lightning”
Speaking: Benvolio Speaking too: Prince literary device: Simile Significance to plot/characters:
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“For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night / Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: herself Literary device: Metaphor Significance to plot/characters:
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“So tedious is this day / As is the night before some festival / To an impatient child that hath new robes / And may not wear them”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: herself Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: it's juliet sating why is this night so long and bad the night before the wedding
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“To prison, eyes, ne'er look on liberty”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Nurse Literary device: Personification Significance to plot/characters: Juliet is super sad and upset that Juliet is getting banished
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“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! / Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? / Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! / Dove-feathered raven”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: nurse Literary device: Metaphor, oxymoron Significance to plot/characters:
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“But oh, it presses to my memory, / Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: nurse Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: Juliet is saying that Romeo and Tybalt are going to always be on her mind
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“Romeo is banishèd.” / There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, / In that word’s death”
Speaking:julliet Speaking too:nurse Literary device:hyperbole/ personification Significance to plot/characters:
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“Romeo, come forth. Come forth, thou fearful man. / Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, / And thou art wedded to calamity”
Speaking: Friar Lawrence Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: personification Significance to plot/characters: he is saying that Romeo is going to marry a catastrophe
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There is no world without Verona walls / But purgatory, torture, hell itself
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Friar Luwrence Literary device: hyperbole Significance to plot/characters: he is saying that there is no point in anything outside of Verona where Juliet lives
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“Not I, unless the breath of heartsick groans, / Mistlike, infold me from the search of eyes”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Friar Lawrence Literary device: Personification/ hyperbole Significance to plot/characters:
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As if that name, / Shot from the deadly level of a gun, / Did murder her, as that name’s cursed hand / Murdered her kinsman”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Frair Lawrence, nurse Literary device: simile/ personification Significance to plot/characters: it shows how Romeo is now more sad that she is also upset
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“Like powder in a skill-less soldier’s flask, / Is set afire by thine own ignorance; / And thou dismembered with thine own defence”
Speaking: Friar lawrence Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: simile Significance to plot/characters: he compares Romeo to an unskilled solder.
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“Of my child’s love. I think she will be ruled / In all respects by me. Nay, more, I doubt it not”
Speaking: Capulet Speaking too: Paris Literary device:dramactic irony Significance to plot/characters:
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“For in a minute there are many days. / Oh, by this count I shall be much in years / Ere I again behold my Romeo”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: hyperbole Significance to plot/characters: she is exaggerating
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“O God, I have an ill-divining soul. / Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Romeo Literary device: foreshadowing Significance to plot/characters:
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“God pardon him! I do, with all my heart, / And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Lady capulet Literary device:verbal irony/dramatic irony Significance to plot/characters:
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“In one little body / Thou counterfeit’st a bark, a sea, a wind, / For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, / Do ebb and flow with tears. The bark thy body is, / Sailing in this salt flood. The winds thy sighs, / Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them
Speaking: Lady Capulet Speaking too:julliet Literary device: personification/ metaphor Significance to plot/characters:
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“That she do give her sorrow so much sway, / And in his wisdom hastes our marriage / To stop the inundation of her tears”
Speaking: Paris Speaking too: Friar Lawrence Literary device: dramatic irony Significance to plot/characters: This marriage will fix her problem
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“Give me some present counsel, or, behold, / 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife / Shall play the umpire”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Friar Lawrence Literary device: personification Significance to plot/characters: Juliet is saying that she will stab herself with the knife
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“Then is it likely thou wilt undertake / A thing like death to chide away this shame, / That copest with death himself to ’scape from it”
Speaking: Friar Lawrence Speaking too: Juliet Literary device: personification Significance to plot/characters:
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“Where I have learned me to repent the sin / Of disobedient opposition / To you and your Behests”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Lord Capulet Literary device: verbal irony
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“I met the youthful lord at Lawrence' cell, / And gave him what becomèd love I might, / Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too:Lord Capulet Literary device: verbal irony
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“So early waking, what with loathsome smells, / And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, / That living mortals, hearing them, run mad”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too: Herself Literary device: Simile
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“Death lies on her like an untimely frost / Upon the sweetest flower of all the field”
Speaking: Lord capulet Speaking too: himself Literary device: Simile/ personification Significance to plot/characters: He is saying that she looks dead
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“Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. / My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, / And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s”
Speaking: Capulet Speaking too: themself Literary device: personification Significance to plot/characters: He is saying that death always happens to him
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“Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled, / By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!”
Spaking: Paris Speaking too: Himself Literary device: Personification Significance to plot/characters: He is saying that everything is ruined and his love is gone.
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“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead— / Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think— / And breathed such life with kisses in my lips / That I revived and was an emperor”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Himself Literary device: Foreshadowing
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“such soon-speeding gear / As will disperse itself through all the veins / That the life-weary taker may fall dead, / And that the trunk may be discharged of breath / As violently as hasty powder fired / Doth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Apothecary Literary device: Simile Significance: They are saying the poison is so bad it's like powder fired
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“The world is not thy friend nor the world’s law”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: Apothecary Literary device: Personification Significance: he is saying that the world is not with him and like everything is up to face him
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“Poor living course, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”
Speaking: Friar lawrence Speaking too: Friar john Literary device: oxymoron
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“The time and my intents are savage, wild, / More fierce and more inexorable far / Than empty tigers or the roaring sea”
Speaking: Romeo Speaking too: himself Literary device: hyperbole/ metaphor Significance:
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“Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, / Thus I force thy rotten jaws to open, / And in despite I’ll cram thee with more food!”
Speaking:romeo Speaking too: himself Literary device: personifaction Significance:
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“Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death’s pale flag is not advancèd there”
Speaking:romeo Speaking too: himself Literary device: dramatic irony Significance:
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“O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die”
Speaking: Juliet Speaking too:herself Literary device: personifacation Significance:
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“A glooming peace this morning with it brings. / The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head”
Speaking:prince Speaking too: citizens Literary device: pathetic fallacy/personification Significance:

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