... there are more literary techniques used as well. Personification is another technique employed by Shakespeare to emphasize one of Romeo=s more obvious traits: the ability to pull expressive language out of nowhere. In Romeo=s long description of Juliet=s beauty, he asks Juliet to AArise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.@ Besides the aforementioned metaphor used here, there is personification. The moon is not a living object ... and therefore cannot be killed, which is one way that Romeo gives human traits to non-human objects. The other bit of ... ...

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... that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme across Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, before he meets Juliet, thinks that he loves Rosaline, believing that she is the girl of his dreams, praising her beauty, and complaining about her not returning his love. Romeo forgets his love to Rosaline at ... the first moment he sees Juliet. Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings ... of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admits he is in love with, Rosalin...

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