Friday, 30 January 2009

What are some literary devices in Romeo and Juliet act 3, scene 3? Please include the line number if possible.

This
emotionally fraught and dramatic scene is filled with figurative language. Some examples are as
follows:

Assonance is the repetition of same
vowel at the beginning of words in close proximity, and consonance
is the repetition of the same sounds within a word. This quote below uses both assonance and
consonance in the repeated short "a" sounds, which bring a breathless feeling to the
lines:

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.
The
following uses , which is the repetition of the same word or words
at the beginning of a line. This creates a pleasing sense of...
















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