"My
only love sprung from my only hate!" is an example of an exclamatory sentence. Shakespeare
has written this sentence as an exclamatory sentence to indicate to the actor playingthat her
tone here should express an intense emotionwhether shock, deep frustration, or something else.
In the same quotation, the repetition of the word "only"
emphasizes how unfortunate Juliet thinks she is. She has "only" one love and
"only" one hate, and so the fact that they are both linked seems highly
unfortunate.
There is also repetition of the
word "too" in the next part of the quotation. The repetition here again emphasizes
Juliet's misfortune. She saw"too early," and found out about his family name "too
late." There is also in this part of the quotation, and in the previous part of the
quotation, syntactical . This is when the first half of a sentence
mirrors the second half. For example, in the first sentence, we have "My only love"
and "my only hate," and in the second sentence,...
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