Question

What literary device is employed here?

" O my love! my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there. (V, ii, 94-99) "

a. dramatic irony
b. foreshadowing
c. oxymoron
d. allusion

Answer 1

the answer A. dramatic irony

Answer 2

Right away you can eliminate Allusion and Oxymoron
Allusion would be repetition of the beginning of the words which it doesn't have. Oxymoron would be a combination of ideas etc. cruel kindness or living death which it doesn't have. Now we have foreshadowing and Dramatic irony. In this case it isn't exactly given a story and it leaves no hints to tell what could happen later on in the story. Therefore A. Dramatic Irony should be the answer. It describes with a dramatic tone how Romeo is looking at Juliet's corpse and talking about how beautiful it looks