What are some examples of verbal irony in Romeo and Juliet?

Verbalis
usually defined as speech that has the opposite meaning of what the words actually mean. Sarcasm
is one example. Another type of verbal irony occurs when speech is misinterpreted so that one or
more characters take a different meaning than the speaker intends. Some examples of verbal irony
from are provided below.

Whenreceives the fatal blow
from ,asks him if he is hurt. He replies, "Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch." Within a few
lines, he has died.

When the Nurse comes to tellabout Mercutio's death, she
enters into her typical circumlocutions and leads Juliet to believe thathas been killed instead.
The Nurse moans, "Alack the day, he's gone, he's killed, he's dead." Juliet asks for
clarification, and the Nurse says, "O Romeo, Romeo, Whoever would have thought it?
Romeo!" This leads Juliet to the wrong conclusion, and it takes the Nurse a frustratingly
long time to set the record straight.

Another passage of verbal irony occurs
whencomes to Juliet's room to discuss the date of her marriage to . Juliet chooses her words
carefully at first, hoping to deceive her mother about her love for Romeo. She says:

Indeed, I never shall be satisfied
With Romeo till I behold
himdead
Is my poor heart, so for a kinsman vexed.
Madam, if you could find out
but a man
To bear a poison, I would temper it,
That Romeo should, upon receipt
thereof,
Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors
To hear him named and
cannot come to him
To wreak the love I bore my cousin
Upon his body that hath
slaughtered him.

This speech can be interpreted two ways.
Juliet means that she loves Romeo and would alter the poison meant to kill him so that it would
only make him sleep peacefully. She wants to bestow the love she felt for Tybalt as her cousin
on Romeo, her husband.

However, the phrasing allows her mother to believe
that Juliet wants revenge on Romeo for Tybalt's death. Juliet does not keep this ruse up for
long. When Lady Capulet announces the wedding date, Juliet clearly states she will only marry
Romeo. However, it's unclear whether Lady Capulet understands Juliet's words. She may take them
as mere Juliet's way of showing her stubborn refusal to marry Paris.

In
that same scene,uses verbal irony when he sarcastically insults the nurse. He refers to her as
"my Lady Wisdom" and "Good Prudence." Thus, Shakespeare employs verbal irony
in several intriguing ways in Romeo and Juliet.