Tuesday, June 28, 2011

What are four language techniques used in Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene 2: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a...

This
question provides a particular passage from the play; however, it does leave open the
possibility that it is asking about language techniques from the entire act and scene.


Based on the passage provided, a reader can see a fairly good example of the iambic
pentameter that Shakespeare so frequently employed throughout many of his pieces. Most of the
lines follow an unstressed/stressed syllable pattern and contain a total of ten syllables. Each
unstressed/stressed unit is an iambic foot, and five of them gives readers the pentameter. The
quote in question is also an example of . Blank verse has consistent rhythm and meter, but it
doesn't have rhyme.

The provided quote also has a couple of examples of
enjambment. Enjambment is a device that a poet will use when one line of verse spills over into
the next line without any kind of punctuation mark that would make a reader pause at the end of
the line.

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other
part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
It is used again about a line later.
That which we call a rose
By
any other word would smell as sweet.

A general rule of thumb with enjambment is that it usually is combined with caesura.
A caesura is a pause within a line of verse, and it is usually marked by some kind of
punctuation. Readers can see a good example with both rhetorical questions thatasks. Those
question marks force a reader to pause, and they occur in the middle of a line.
Whats Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O,
be some other name!

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