Literary Devices In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

William Shakespeare is known to be the greatest dramatist, and the finest poet in English Literature. He was John and Mary Shakespeare’s oldest surviving child, since their first two children didn 't make it beyond infancy. He was born in April, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon, United Kingdom. William grew up as the big brother, along his other siblings, Gilbert, Richard, and Edmund, Joan, and Anne who died at age seven. He attended a Stratford local grammar school, in which he learned Latin, Greek, and the language of ancient Rome there, and although he was pretty much a great student, he only went to school until age 15. A few years after he left school, he got married to Anne Hathaway when he was 18 years old, and she was 26 and pregnant. They

Although there is no rhyme scheme, the whole poem is in Shakespeare’s signature iambic pentameter. This is also considered a monologue, lyric poem, or narrative poem. The use of literary devices such as simile, metaphor and imagery are the strongest figures of speech used to portray the overall theme of the journey a man takes throughout his life. The first literary device is found in the beginning of the poem, with the metaphor “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” in which he compares the world and a life to a play, and the men and women in it to the actors who play it. People enter this world from one route and get out through a different route, and just like in a play, they enter the stage when they’re born, and exit it when they die. Shakespeare explains the different roles man must play on his stage of life. Not only that literary device, but there is also a simile that says “And shining morning face, creeping like snail, Unwillingly to school.” which basically just means how a little kid wakes up in the morning crying or how he can be so lazy and slow because he doesn 't want to go to school. For this simile he is also comparing the schoolboy to a snail. One of the literary devices that catches most of the reader’s attention is “Even in the cannon 's mouth” which is an example of personification in this poem. A cannon obviously does not have a mouth since it is an object, so it’s giving it human characteristics to it. That phrase was completing the quote “Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation” explaining itself a bit better. The complete quote refers to how during this stage of life, men set their goals in very high places, and want to rapidly achieve success. The danger with this is that a slight mistake can destroy his own reputation