In Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene 6, what type of literary device is this? "Do thou but close our hands with holy words, / Then love-devouring death do what he dare; / It is enough I may call her mind."
A. Metaphor
B. Personification
C. Simile
D. Verbal irony

Question

In Romeo and Juliet Act II, Scene 6, what type of literary device is this? "Do thou but close our hands with holy words, / Then love-devouring death do what he dare; / It is enough I may call her mind." 
	A.	Metaphor
	B.	Personification
	C.	Simile
	D.	Verbal irony

anonymous · Answer

uring Act Two in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, there is alot of foreshadowing from one of the play's main charaters, Romeo Montegue. This literary term is expressed frequently through Romeo's dialoge. [ For example, Romeo says to Friar Lawrence in 2:6 "Then love-devouring death do what he dare; it is enough I may but call her mine," right before he marrys Juliet. This line is expressing the fact that Romeo wouldn't mind if he died, because he is happy enough to be married to Juliet. Other examples of foreshadowing from Romeo are found throughout the Act, leading up to the ominous fact that something bad may happen to the lovers later in the