Romeo And Juliet Rhetorical Analysis

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In this paragraph, Juliet is oxymoronic and uses paradoxes to give expression and to show that she is conflicted. The first line, “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!” is revealing that Juliet is not very forgiving towards Romeo for killing her cousin and thinks that his bad character got masked by his good looks and charm. This first line doesn’t have an oxymoron in it however the point of it is to show the audience that Juliet’s first reaction towards the incident is not good. Lines two and four are where she begins to use oxymora and it states, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical! Dove-feather’d raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!” These are all examples of oxymora and show that she is very conflicted in what she thinks about Romeo. She

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