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Lesson 29: Mourning Over Juliet’s Dead Body (Act 4, Scene 5 & Act 5, Scene 3)

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Look at the language that the characters employ in lamenting Juliet’s death, with special focus on the rhetorical skill of personification in portraying death.

  – Using the skill of personification in describing death

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Lau, L.C.M., Tso, W.B.A. (2017). Lesson 29: Mourning Over Juliet’s Dead Body (Act 4, Scene 5 & Act 5, Scene 3). In: Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0582-4_29

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