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reference to context. Romeo and Juliet
she called him a beautiful tyrant, a ravenous dove, a lamb with a wolf's nature, and other like contradictory names...​

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This act happens when Juliet learns that Romeo, the man she loves, has killed her dear cousin, Tybalt. She is calling him a monster but at the same time she loves him. Hence the oxymoronic phrases (contradictory words used simultaneously) describe Romeo, his apparent duality in her eyes