Mercutio: “If love be rough with you, be rough with love” - Repetition, Juliet: “Too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden” - Tripling, anaphor, Romeo: “Did my heart love til now? I never saw true beauty till this night.” - Rhetorical question (Romeo), Juliet: “Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” - Paradox (Juliet), Friar Laurence: “Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” - Figurative lang, Tybalt: “Talk of peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee” - Repetition, semantic field of hatred, Prince: “My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a bleeding” - Irate tone, Lord Capulet: ““o, brother Montague, give me thy hand” - Symbolism, Romeo: “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars, … some vile forfeit of untimely death” - Metaphor (Romeo), Friar Laurence: “A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our intents.” - Spiritual language, Romeo: “O I am fortune’s fool.” - Alliteration, Oxymoron, Romeo: “Then I defy you, stars!” - Exclamative sentence, Chorus: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives” - Metaphor (Chorus), Friar Laurence: “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; for this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love” - Complex sentence, Prince: “And I for winking at your discords too have lost a brace of kinsmen: all are punished.” - Short declarative sentence, Lord Capulet: “My child is yet a stranger in this world; She hath not seen the change of fourteen years” - Metaphor (Lord Capulet), “Dreamers often lie” - Pun, “Art thou a man? Thy tears are womanish” - Rhetorical question, “These violent delights have violent ends.” - Paradox, “I think it best you married with the County. Oh, he's a lovely gentleman. Romeo's a dishclout to him.” - Metaphor (Nurse),

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