Oxymoron, Paradox & Juxtaposition Examples in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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Oxymoron

Act I, Scene 1
Romeo: "brawling love, loving hate, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health"

Paradox

Act I, Scene 1
Romeo referring to love: "a choking gall and a preserving sweet"

Paradox

Act I , Scene 1
Romeo: "Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms"

Oxymoron

Act I, Scene 2
Capulet: "Earth-treading stars"; "dark heaven"

Juxtaposition

Act I, Scene 4
Romeo's view of love and dreams vs. Mercutio's view of love and dreams

Juxtaposition

Romeo's love, tenderness for Juliet vs. Tybalt's hate and fury at Romeo attending the ball
Act I, Scene 5
Romeo: "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!"
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

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Tybalt: "This, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What, dares the slave ...
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin."

Paradox

Act I, Scene 5
Juliet: "my only love sprung from my only hate"

Dichotomy, Juxtaposition

Act I, Scene 5
Light/ dark imagery
Romeo: "She doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear.

..
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows"

Oxymoron

Act II, Scene 2
Juliet: "loving jealous"
Romeo: "sweet sorrow"

Dichotomy/Juxtaposition/Motif (Youth vs. Age)

Act II, Scene 5
Juliet: Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball...
But old folks, many feign as they were dead -
Unwieldly, slow, heavy and pale as lead

Oxymoron

Act II, Scene 6
Friar Lawrence: "violent delights"

Paradox

Act III, Scene 2
Juliet: "Was ever a book containing such vile manner so fairly bound?"

Paradox

Act V, Scene 3
Friar Lawrence: "I am the greatest yet able to do least"

Paradox

Act V, Scene 3
Prince Escalus: "Capulet, Montague,
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate
That heaven finds the means to kill your joys with love.