Question

Find an example of one of the following plot devices in the passage from the play: foreshadowing, dramatic irony, or subplot. Describe its use, and list the lines from the play.

Answer 1

Answer: EXAMPLE ANSWER

Explanation:

Shakespeare uses foreshadowing when Juliet considers their marriage to be too quick of a decision:

It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;

Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be

Ere one can say “It lightens.”

She compares the marriage to lightning, which will “cease to be.” These lines foreshadow future problems for the couple