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We have discussed how when characters in this play rhyme, they are usually acting childish. We have also looked at Romeo's use of oxymorons in Act I. Here, Juliet says: Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st; A damned saint, an honourable villain! What are characters doing when they overuse oxymorons? expressing the depths of paradoxical emotions sincerely expressing complex emotions in the manner most true to life trying to confuse the people they are talk

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