| oxymoron | Juliet says this of Tybalt after she found out he was killed, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!” This is an example of… |
| pun | “Not I, believe me You have dancing shoes /With nimble soles. I have a soul of lead/So stakes me to the ground I cannot move.” This is an example of… |
| verbal irony | Mercutio says, “Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch,” is an example of… |
| couplet | “There is no end, no limit, measure, bound,In that word’s death. No words can that woe sound.” |
| dramatic irony | The audience knows that Romeo and Juliet are already married and the other characters on stage do not. |
Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Literary Terms Examples
August 17, 2019