Romeo and Juliet: In scene 1, Romeo is acting very strange and is in love with a girl called Rosaline, but she doesn't love him back that's why Romeo is feeling sad and depressed. Romeo uses oxymoron and lots of romantic language. "O brawling love o loving hate" "A right good mark-man! And she's the fair I love". In Benvolio's conversation with Montague, they are talking about Romeo's strange behaviour. Montague asks Benvolio ... how Tybalt came in the fight. "The fiery Tybalt, with, with his sword prepared, which, as he beath"d defiance to my ears, he swung about his head and cut the winds"....

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... the story has a tragic ending (grabbing their attention and provoking emotion at such an early stage) and are drawn further into how the story will develop. This can also be applied to Romeo and Juliet in more that one way. Everybody knows the story of Romeo and Juliet, "two star crossed lovers- and therefore all know how the story develops and comes to a tragic end. Luhrmann's film makes good ... use of this, and to remind the audience of the tragedy involved the film begins with a television on ... techniques all give the films their own special touch and makes them different from an...

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... he has still kept the story. This idea has been recently portrayed in a film version of Romeo and Juliet, where the action takes place in the present day, with the use of guns as opposed to swords and the protagonists getting around in cars. All the language used is exactly the same as that in the text of the play; it is just taking ... place in a different setting. What is being presented is still a film version of Romeo and Juliet; it is just being presented in a different way. One book that relies heavily on the imagery the language used creates in Trainspotting by Irving Welsh. In d...

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