Literary+Devices

For your assigned passage above, please complete the following: 1. Prepare a summary of your group’s lines. 2. Identify three examples of language tricks/literary devices used in your group’s lines. Note: In addition to the literary devices already mentioned, look for hyperbole and puns. 3. How do these specific devices/tricks enhance the passage? 4. Identify what your group thinks is the most important line, and be prepared to explain why it is important.

2.6 1) The marriage of Romeo and Juliet. 2) 2.6.1 So smile the heavens upon this holy act. (personification) 2.6.10 And in their triumph die, like fire and powder (simile) 2.6.37 Till Holy Church incorporate two in one (personification & metaphor) 3) The devices/tricks enhance the passage by letting the reader imagine it to an extent that it is real. Just like a gigantic hyperbole. 4) "Till Holy Church incorporate two in one" - 2.6.37 This is the most important because not only does it mean that they are married but it also explains that two people really become one through marriage. The line also emphasizes how much Romeo and Juliet's love was important to them.