TheWallflower answered Monday June 11 2007, 11:31 pm: I don't know where in the play exactly, but look for juliet's soliloquy throughout the play. I can't remember the exact oxymorons she said but I am 100% sure there are tons of oxymorons in her speeches.
Repetition is used a lot in the play, you basically just have to read carefully to find it. In Shakespeare's time, repetition was used a lot because plays were performed in front of large audiences, and in order to prevent the audience from missing something important, Shakespeare had to repeat several important things throughout the play. [ TheWallflower's advice column | Ask TheWallflower A Question ]
beckyboo answered Monday June 11 2007, 11:12 pm: [[From artsedge.org]]
An oxymoron describes when two juxtaposed words have opposing or very diverse meanings. In the following quotation, Juliet has just learned that Romeo murdered her cousin, Tybalt, and she is venting her feelings of anger at her lover for hurting her family.
Juliet--"Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!" (III ii 77)
When Juliet refers to Romeo as a "beautiful tyrant," she is expressing an oxymoron because the acts of a tyrant will rarely be referred to as beautiful.
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