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
partBelonging to a man. O, be some other name!
It is used again about a line later.
That which we call a roseBy
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 partBelonging to a man. O,
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