Romeo and Juliet
List the oxymorons in lines 70-79. Why does Juliet speak this way?
This is on Act 3, scene 2
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The oxymorons come from Juliet lamenting the fact that her Romeo killed Tybalt. She loves him yet is angry, a little bit, at him.
O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despisèd substance of divinest show
A damnèd saint, an honorable villain!
