How do I describe this sentence?

Question

In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's mother says
'I would the fool were married to her grave'
A person obviously can't get married to a grave so is there a name for this way of saying something?

Answer 1

only a fool would marry someone dead as in let it go hes dead and move on with ur life

Answer 2

Ya? How bout you fall 1000 ft and describe that for us - in case you've lived more suitable than 5 seconds it really is ludicrous to attempt to seize your life in a unmarried sentence or regardless of in case you began speaking at present and did not provide up until eventually you died.

Answer 3

It's called Personification -- it's a literary device used to add colour to writing.
Though people don't write that way anymore, personification is still used commonly in writing.

Answer 4

Old English.

Answer 5

Lady Capulet is saying she would rather see Juliet dead than to be married to one who is not of "society". i.e. Romeo.
hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration, not meant to be taken literally.

Answer 6

married to the grave..married to someone dead or married to the grave as in destined to die

Answer 7

the daughter will be dead if the marries that man

Answer 8

olde english - it makes sense in the dialogue, when read as a whole.

Answer 9

It's Alliteration. Not sure if thats how it is spelled!

Answer 10

"hyperbole"=exaggeration


alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor ((?))