Theme Of Diction In Romeo And Juliet

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This scene provides the audience with Romeo’s thought provoking premonition that further warms responders of the omnipresent force of fate looming over him. This is achieved through the diction and literary devices which Shakespeare uses. Shakespeare uses literary techniques, such as a metaphor, “Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,” demonstrating that there is a serious potentially deathly consequence that is written in fate for Romeo. It provides the reader with knowledge about how Romeo is feeling and foreshadows the end of the book. Shakespeare’s clever diction is clearly shown in “By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” This displays the fate which is present in this scene and provides Romeo’s premonitions on fate and the evil