Question

PARIS: Happily met, my lady and my wife!

JULIET: That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.

PARIS: That may be must be, love, on Thursday next.

JULIET: What must be shall be.

FRIAR LAURENCE: That's a certain text.

PARIS: Come you to make confession to this father?

JULIET: To answer that, I should confess to you.

PARIS: Do not deny to him that you love me.

JULIET: I will confess to you that I love him.

PARIS: So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.

JULIET: If I do so, it will be of more price,
Being spoke behind your back, than to your face.

PARIS: Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.

JULIET: The tears have got small victory by that;
For it was bad enough before their spite.

PARIS: Thou wrong'st it, more than tears, with that report.

JULIET: That is no slander, sir, which is a truth;
And what I spake, I spake it to my face.

PARIS: Thy face is mine, and thou hast slander'd it.

JULIET: It may be so, for it is not mine own.
Are you at leisure, holy father, now;
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?

FRIAR LAURENCE: My leisure serves me, pensive daughter, now.
My lord, we must entreat the time alone.

In this passage from act IV of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for advice because her father is forcing her to marry Count Paris. When she gets to the Friar’s room, Paris is there, arranging for the wedding. Which literary technique is used in this exchange between Paris and Juliet?

A) dramatic irony
B) foreshadowing
C) imagery
D) flashback

Answer 1

A I think hope this helped

Answer 2

A) Dramatic irony.

Step-by-step explanation:

The literary technique used in the exchange between Paris and Juliet is that of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony is when the audience knows what is going on in the story but which the characters themselves don't seem to have any idea about it.

This scene in Act IV shows Juliet going to Friar Lawrence to tell him of the sad news of her impending marriage to Count Paris that had been moved nearer. But she encounters Paris with the Friar, discussing plans about the wedding. The conversation that takes place between them is a dramatic irony for we already know why she was here and why she was sad. But to Paris, the reason of her sadness and crying must have been because of the death of Tybalt. Contrary to that, we know that it was because of her stress and worrying about the rushed wedding of hers that has been pre-poned, and her inability to tell anyone of her already married status with Romeo to anyone. So, she has come to the Friar to ask for help and advice.And the fact that she behaved with Paris as if she is still planning to marry him shows a humorous but dramatic effect. She acts normal, saying that her declaration of love if done so, "will be of more price, Being spoke behind your back, than to your face".